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 ...

(NOTE: Jonathan Bachman and I are currently in the beginning stages of filming a documentary focused on contemporary New Orleans brass bands, from Dirty Dozen to Rebirth to Soul Rebels and more, we'll ...

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 ...