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Pages in category "Brass bands from New Orleans" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is an American brass band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. [1] The ensemble was established in 1977, by Benny Jones and members of the Tornado Brass Band . The Dirty Dozen incorporated funk and bebop into the traditional New Orleans jazz style, and has since been a major influence on local music.
Bands from the city of New Orleans, Louisiana For individual musicians, please see Category:Musicians from New Orleans ... Brass bands from New Orleans (19 P) J.
The earliest jazz musicians can be traced back to playing in the Reliance Brass Band or being influenced by those who had. [3] Many of the New Orleans musicians who first spread jazz around the United States in the 1910s and 1920s got their start in Laine's marching band, including the members of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. [4]
He dubbed the band the Pinettes Brass Band, a feminization of the name of his own band, the Original Pinstripe Brass Band. At the school's spring concert in 1992, the band played the song "Freedom" by the Rebirth Brass Band and the crowd response led the musicians more toward contemporary brass band music rather than traditional New Orleans jazz.
The Treme Brass Band is a marching brass band from New Orleans, Louisiana led by snare drummer Benny Jones Sr. The band, which plays traditional New Orleans-style brass band music, features a shifting lineup that has included trumpeters Kermit Ruffins and James Andrews, tenor saxophonists Elliot Callier, Frederick Sheppard, and John Gilbert ...
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The band first began when percussionists Derrick Moss and Lumar LeBlanc met as members of Harold Dejan's Young Olympia Brass Band and decided they wanted to play the music they were hearing on pop radio, but within the context and with respect to the long tradition of the New Orleans brass bands and marching bands they had grown up playing in.