Ricky B is a towering figure in New Orleans hip-hop, for those in the know. Hailing from the 7th Ward, he put on for the city in the 1990s, recording bounce tracks like “Shake Fa Ya Hood” and “Y’All ...

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The energetic LowDown Brass Band is ready to return to Colorado and get people dancing. The Chicago-based band is coming to The Arts Campus at Willits on Feb. 26 for a Mardi Gras-weekend performance ...

The LowDown Brass Band is in a league of its own. The Chicago based act delivers a funky amalgam of soul, jazz, reggae and hip-hop. Imagine a collision of a pair of criminally under-heralded recording ...

Can you believe the first week of September is already wrapping up? It means we’re that much closer to old man winter knocking on KELOLAND’s front door, but before he makes his appearance you’ve still ...

A selection of the Lowdown Brass Band’s “mini reels” collected on their new album Allen Moore, a multidisciplinary artist from Robbins, Illinois, calls his work a “social allegory, conversing with ...

Composer Lance Loiselle started the LowDown Brass Band about 15 years ago when he and his bandmate Dave Levine were at DePaul University. “Dave [Levine] and I and [saxophonist] Chris [Neal] played in ...

Hip-hop horn act Low Down Brass Band shares the soul of Chicago at the Larimer Lounge on Friday, February 25, while Drive-By Truckers hits the Ogden Theatre the same day, moving to the Aggie Theatre ...

Lowdown Brass Band (LDB), hailing from Chicago, is a horn-driven ensemble with strong roots in the New Orleans Second Line Tradition. A fierce sousaphone sets the foundation for trumpets, trombones ...

While the summer weather here in St. Louis continues to define the word “sweltering," this week also brings a variety of jazz and creative music suitable for beating the heat. Let's see what's coming ...

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