Playing "audio gumbo” made up of funk, jazz and hip-hop mixed with brass band traditions and spiced up with African and other world rhythms, Underground Horns bring their signature sound to 92YTribeca. All About Jazz called their 2009 debut record, Funk Monk, "kick-ass dance music…that brushes up against psychedelia…with shots of funky brass juice." In 2010, they recorded their second album, Big Beat, which was reviewed by Ken Waxman in The New York City Jazz Record, calling them "an unapologetic party band with brains...with tonal inflections from the Big Easy, central Africa, the Maghreb and the Baltic states." Underground Horns performed at the 2011 NYC Winter Jazz Festival and internationally in Egypt and Germany. Here in New York, they have made people dance in subway stations, parks and at their numerous club dates at Nublu, Barbes and BAM Cafe, among others. They also have been playing as a marching band, namely at the spectacular NYC Village Halloween Parade.
Brown Rice Family is today's freshest world roots band, grooving towards global solidarity and organic happiness. Guided by a strong belief in the natural flow of things, BRF provides the masses with a distinctively organic World Roots Music, which encompasses jazz stylings, afrobeat, reggae, rock, Latin rhythms, hip-hop and funk. The band was formed while its members were attending the City College of New York. Slowly, the band grew, and is presently comprised of eight members hailing from all over the world—Japan, Jamaica, Haiti, Nigeria, South Africa and US. The BRF sound is in the truest sense of the words World Roots Music.
PitchBlak Brass Band will capture your body and make you move! PitchBlak draws upon its many members’ musical backgrounds and infuses their hip-hop-driven music with funk, jazz, rock and classical music. The result is a sound rich with luscious brass harmonies, thoughtful rhymes and grooving rhythms.
Tickets: $10