Five tremendous brass musicians--each a virtuoso in his own right--form the legendary Canadian Brass. With an international reputation as one of the most popular brass ensembles today, Canadian Brass ...

When the American Brass Quintet formed 45 years ago, classical brass music had been going through a quiet phase – for some 400 years.According to Raymond Mase, a trumpeter who joined the American ...

In the late 70's through the early 80's, all the brothers were born on the southside of Chicago, Illinois. Their family had a strong musical legacy that span the city. In 1986, their father formed ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct an error in a quote from band member Kristen Albert. When QuintEssentially Brass was founded in 2009, its ...

Trombone to tuba, cornet to sousaphone, New Orleans to India, colliery or marching military, let's trumpet those tubes and valves Brass can blow hot and cold, wafting variously in and out of vogue.

In October I went to the Royal Albert Hall to watch the final of the National Brass Band Championships. Each of the nineteen finalists plays a fiendishly difficult test piece to a half-full hall and ...

It has the air of a boxing match with a rowdy and expectant crowd. On the left, one trumpeter appears, on the right, another. They eye each other up and as you are distracted by the musical phrases ...

This post was updated Oct. 22 at 11:39 a.m. The Chromatic Brass Collective is making sure to hit every note. The collective got its start in June 2020 when a group of musicians gathered to discuss ...

William Claiborne, the first American governor of the Louisiana territory, believed New Orleans was ungovernable due to the citizenry's preoccupation with dancing. We're talking pre-jazz here. Later ...