Youngblood Brass Band

Live From Birmingham: The Tubes, Youngblood Brass Band, Bill Bailey & Deerhoof

by Martin Longley
August 27, 2015

The Tubes The Robin R&B Club August 13, 2015 The Tubes are touring to celebrate four decades of existence. Always something of a cultish alternative, and quite possibly bringing the punters out in droves due to a certain nostalgic curiosity, this Bilston show was the last night of their UK leg, and the atmosphere was suitably charged. Hailing from San Francisco, this bunch of japers have always been concerned with the satiric poke, ...

Youngblood Brass Band: center:level:roar

by AAJ Staff
April 22, 2003

In some sense, we're all children to the end... the day we quit playing is the day we quit living.

The Youngblood Brass Band embodies that principle in everything they do, however serious the music may become. Billing themselves as “6 horns, 2 drummers, a sousaphonist, and an MC," the group was founded in 1995 when these young men were high school students in Wisconsin. It's not your average brass band, for sure. With their anything-goes approach, they ...

Jazz this week: Adam Larson, Lettuce, Youngblood Brass Band, March Fourth!, The New Mastersounds, and more

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
October 14, 2015

This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in and around St. Louis features a couple of different acts purveying instrumental funk, a saxophone phenom working in the modern jazz mainstream, a mutant marching band, and, as the saying goes, much, much more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, October 14 Up-and-coming saxophonist Adam Larson will play the first of two nights with his quartet at Jazz at the Bistro. Originally from Normal, IL, Larson (pictured, top left) graduated ...
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