With a name like this, who could resist?
Slavic Soul Party, live, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 2007
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who could argue?
“New York’s Official #1 Brass Band For BalkanSoulGypsyFunk.”
New Orleans Music Festival/day 3 of 3
Only in New Orleans do the dead dance.
New Orleans Jazz Funeral for tuba player Kerwin James (2007)
New Orleans Music Festival/day 2 of 3
If spirit could be sold, New Orleans would be rich.
Rebirth Brass Band, live, New Orleans, 2009
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lagniappe
“Brass band musicians are a wild bunch. They’re hard to control. The street funk that the Rebirth [Brass Band] plays definitely isn’t traditional—it might be in thirty years time.”—Lajoie “Butch” Gomez (in Mick Burns, Keeping the Beat on the Street: The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance [2006])
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