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Rain held off at New Orleans Jazz Fest on Thursday morning, letting sousaphone star Kirk Joseph share his New Orleans roots with fans at the Acura Stage. A founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass ...
Big black and white letters that spelled out "Preservation Hall New Orleans" made the jazz band's sousaphone hard to miss. That was, at least, until it went missing. "If you're trying to identify ...
Someone has stolen Preservation Hall’s signature sousaphone, and there’s a reward offered for its return. Jaffe posted a message about the theft on the jazz venue’s Facebook page ...
but also in rock bands such as Bonerama and the Anders Osborne Band and in contemporary jazz bands led by John Ellis and Kermit Ruffins. Most tuba players in New Orleans play the sousaphone ...
LDB brandishes a powerful brass frontline of trumpets, trombones, saxophones, with a funky backline of drums and sousaphone. Combining the poetic ... Fresh off their headlining set at The 2018 ...
For their thesis project as a grad student at Illinois State University, composer and multi-instrumentalist Joe Sandy wrote a ...
Saxophonist Nicole Johänntgen’s album Henry features trombone, sousaphone and drums for a raucous, high-energy storm of New Orleans jazz. Johänntgen’s alto sound is heavily influenced by ...
In 1961, Pottsville native Allan Jaffe established Preservation Hall in the city’s French Quarter, and played Sousaphone in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Under Jaffe’s tutelage ...
Even O’Brien’s instrument, an antique sousaphone, was a gift from her local jazz community and has been used by many Kansas City musicians over the years. A Sass-A-Brass band member gets ready ...
Focusing on innovation rather than improvisation, they identify as a brass band but incorporate elements of jazz, electronics and dance beats ... Van Ee's synths in "Proper Hired Guns." Rhythmic ...