In the early 1990s, bass drummer Derrick Moss, snare drummer Lumar LeBlanc and other members of the Young Olympia Brass Band decided to split off to form a new brass band: The Soul Rebels. They wanted ...

Lowdown Brass Band has been able to merge the jazz sounds of New Orleans with the stylings of Chicago and the grit of hip-hop to create something special. We spoke with Lance Loiselle, the band’s ...

Fifteen years ago, LowDown Brass Band started by paying homage to some of the great New Orleans brass bands. But the act’s fifth album, LowDown Breaks, released in January, is a throwback to early ...

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When Walter Ramsey was only a child, he saw the Rebirth Brass Band, a terrific New Orleans group that’s practically a Big Easy institution, perform at his middle school. Right then and there, Ramsey, ...

Berkshire Theatre Group welcomes international jazz and hip-hop group, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble to The Colonial Theatre on May 11 at 7pm. Tickets to Hypnotic Brass Ensemble are $25, $35 and $45.

The first Friday of Jazz Fest is starting to feel more like Wu Fest for OG hip-hop heads with not one but two shows by Staten Island’s favorite sons the Wu-Tang Clan backed by hometown brass band gods ...

Formed in Brittany in the late 2000s, Sax Machine blend funk, soul and hip-hop thanks to their joyous beatmaking and ...