We celebrate all kinds of music at the ESSENCE Festival, and since it takes place in New Orleans, we always make sure brass bands come out and represent. Brass bands not your cup of tea? Don’t knock ...

Over the past 18 months, Alejandro de los Rios, Jonathan Bachman and Michael Seaman have traced the history of New Orleans brass band music for their film “Brass Roots.” De los Rios and Bachman, both ...

The culmination of the brass band season is fast approaching as the UK's top ensembles prepare to compete in two prestigious finals this September and October. Bands from across the country will go ...

Preservation Brass had been holding down Monday nights at Preservation Hall for several years, playing sets of classic New Orleans brass band music, when some of the musicians started batting around ...

If you’ve strolled down Denver’s 16th Street Mall in the last decade, odds are you’ve heard the raucously upbeat sound of a New Orleans-style brass band. With the Rocky Mountains looming beyond the ...

After Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures threw New Orleanians to different parts of the country, musician Ellis Joseph found himself in Atlanta. A bass drummer and one of the founding ...