Sunday, February 12, 2012

Soul Rebels @ Brooklyn Bowl 2/3/12

OK, this is my favorite Brass Band.  2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 2 drummers, etc.  They do such an awesome job with the originals and pick phenomenal covers.  It was so much fun!  Well worth staying up on a Friday night and waiting in line to get in.  I see they sold out Brooklyn Bowl.  That's quite a feat.  The word is out.

http://soulrebelsbrassband.com/


The Soul Rebels formed when Lumar LeBlanc and Derrick Moss, originally members of New Orleans’ iconic Dejean’s Young Olympia Brass Band, decided they wanted to play the new, exciting music they were hearing on the radio while respecting the tradition they loved. Both New Orleans natives, the pair was steeped in the fundamentals of New Orleans jazz, but inevitably, contemporary styles of music began to seep into their psyches. While LeBlanc attended the famed St. Augustine High School, Moss went to Lil’ Wayne’s alma mater McMain High School, and paraded alongside soon‐to‐be Cash Money Records CEO Ronald “Slim” Williams in the school’s marching band. New sounds were all around and they found them as exciting as the horn‐combo style featured in jazz funerals since the turn of the Twentieth Century.


Lumar LeBlanc - President, Snare Drum
Derrick "Oops" Moss - Vice-President, Bass Drum and Percussion
Edward Lee - Tuba
Marcus "Red" Hubbard - Trumpet
Julian Gosin - Trumpet
Paul Robertson - Trombone
Corey Peyton - Trombone
Erion Williams - Tenor Saxophone

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