Stooges Brass Band

After years of “second lining” through the streets of New Orleans and
tearing the roof off its many neighborhood bars, the Stooges Brass Band
is bringing its music to the world. With the release of “It’s About
Time,” one of New Orleans’s most popular brass bands presents a musical
offering that captures the celebratory spirit of New Orleans street
music, played with equally high levels of ability and energy.The Stooges
perform a style of music that dates back to the 19th Century, with its
roots in the time-honored tradition of jazz funerals. Brass bands have
inhabited the city’s streets ever since, and legends like Louis
Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Wynton Marsalis all played in them.
Accordingly, the Stooges take their place in that distinguished lineage
seriously, and many graduated from the highly respected New Orleans
Center for Creative Arts. As a result of this technical training, these
guys are not restricted to one particular style; they play it all and
play it well! That diversity is reflected in the group’s first recorded
effort, “It’s About Time” one of the most ambitious brass band
recordings to date. With the exception of the street standard, “Paul
Barbarin’s Second Line,” the Stooges introduce 13 smoking new tunes to
the brass band songbook. Every one of them drips with the feeling of a
Sunday afternoon in New Orleans spent parading through the streets, with
one hand raised triumphantly in the air, the other grasping an ice cold
beverage. As the New Orleans brass band tradition rolls its way into
the 21st Century, the Stooges are staking a claim as the newest
sensation on the street. And if history holds true, this band will bring
its sound all over the world in the same way its predecessors have. So
deal with this, because this is the time for the stooges to wind it up!