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 ...

(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 ...

They’ve played at international festivals, in nightclubs and on a boat in the New York harbor. In one unusual gig, they played on the L train in Chicago. This local band has even been on the radio — ...

Brass Solidarity is a Minneapolis community band that was formed after George Floyd was killed. Now, they're playing at protests against ICE, in an effort to bring joy and break potential tension.

Keith Frazier, bass drummer and a founding member of Rebirth Brass Band, sits in a quiet coffeeshop near the Fair Grounds Race Course on a gorgeous spring afternoon between French Quarter Festival and ...

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 ...