Photos: Jazz Fest Bible Cover Artist Meets with Rebirth Brass Band

Artist Tami Curtis-Ellis met with members of the Rebirth Brass Band in the OffBeat offices today before Rebirth took the stage at the Louisiana Music Factory to get the band […]

The Big 6 Brass Band is the street sound of New Orleans

The Big 6 Brass Band took off flying when the group was formed in 2017. It jumped into the arena by immediately putting out a mixtape of cover tunes, dropping […]

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Best of the Beat: Lifetime Achievement in Music – Dirty Dozen Brass Band

     In 2002, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band celebrated its 25th anniversary and several of its core members related the ensemble’s history and its remarkable rise to fame […]

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Rebirth Brass Band Back on Tuesdays!

With all music venues closed since mid-March, it’s been six months since anyone could experience Rebirth Brass Band at the Maple Leaf on Tuesday nights. The band’s returning with a series of Tuesday night livestreams from the Howlin’ Wolf beginning Tuesday, September 29.

Big 6 Brass Band releases self-titled debut album,’Big Six’

Big 6 Brass Band, the New Orleans group known for covering hit songs like SZA’s “The Weekend” and bringing high-energy performances to every second line, released a first full-length album, Big […]

Hot 8, Stooges, TBC & more set for NOLA Brass Festival

In what is arguably one of the most quintessentially New Orleans music events, the New Orleans Original Brass Festival returns March 16 to celebrate and support the city’s brass band […]

Rebirth Brass Band leader Phil Frazier facing severe health issues

A fund has been launched by the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic in support of Grammy-winning Rebirth Brass Band’s leader and tuba player, Phil Frazier. Frazier has reportedly suffered a second […]

Derrick Freeman and James Martin are shaping the soul of future brass band music

“The Levels” is the newest song in Soul Brass Band’s repertoire. Written by the band’s founder, Derrick “Smoker” Freeman, it’s a harbinger of his plans for a new album. “It’ll […]

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Preservation Propagation: Preservation Hall Jazz Band has left the museum behind

If there’s one thing you don’t expect to see at Preservation Hall, it’s David Bowie—hundreds of David Bowies in fact, in every incarnation from Ziggy Stardust on up to Lazarus. […]

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Rejoice! 20 Years of the Panorama Jazz Band

On July 4, 1985 Ben Schenck experienced the moment that would change his life. The 22-year-old music student went to the Capitol Mall in Washington D.C. for the Smithsonian Folkways […]

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