LowDown Brass Band Slates Free Show Nov. 1

Chicago's LowDown Brass Band deftly synthesizes the gritty sounds of Chicago with the high energy second-line street beat of the Crescent City. It started out of a love for jazz music and being in the scene in Chicago. Known for their blood-pumping performances, the Chicago band is touring the Midwest, Canada and the East Coast to promote their latest album, Lowdown Breaks, released in January. Chicago Funk Mafia is the local chapter of Funk Mafia International, an organization dedicated to the integrity and proliferation of funky music.

The Lowdown Brass Band, hailing from Chicago, IL, is a nine-piece, horn-driven ensemble with strong roots in the New Orleans 2nd Line Tradition. Chicago-based outfit that mixes New Orleans brass band music with jazz, hip-hop, funk, and soul influences. So really it's also about the evolution of music and how we can combine all those styles seamlessly, and also how this music something has staying power and is timeless.

This new offering steps deeper into refining their unique sound, combining the hip-hop sound with multiple world music and jazz styles. Billa Camp's flow is also on-point on Can I Kick It?," a track where the horns and drums combine with a guitar riff to ‘sample' Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side," right down to the brassy interpretation of Reed's backing singers - the Colored Girls.

Fresh off their appearance at The 2017 Chicago Jazz Festival, LowDown maintains a constant performing and touring schedule throughout North are releasing their self-produced full length studio album, LowDown Breaks," that combines the hip hop sound with multiple world music and jazz styles.

A: We released a Christmas album last year after we had done all these holiday gigs at Navy Pier and suddenly had this repertoire, but we didn't have enough money to release it on vinyl, so this show is sort of a release for that and our new video, "Chicago's Where I Wanna Be," which is our Christmas original.

LowDown Brass Band (LDB) synthesizes the gritty sounds of Chicago with the high-energy second-line street beat of New Orleans. The LDB breaks the barrier between audience and performer with their live show, which features dynamic vocalists, hip-hop MCs, and body movement that gets any wallflower up and on their feet.

Thirty-five years later, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a world famous music machine, whose name is synonymous with genre-bending romps and high-octane performances. Hailing from Chicago, Low Down Brass combines funk, jazz, and hip-hop to create their unique sound.

LOWDOWN BRASS BAND, hailing from Chicago, is a horn-driven tour de force. Lowdown Brass Band is David Levine, baritone saxophone; Chris Neal, tenor saxophone; Lance Loiselle, sousaphone; Mike August, drums; John Barbush, drums; Raphael Crawford, trombone; Sam Johnson, trumpet.

Lowdown has something to offer every listener, jazz, ska, reggae, hip-hop, Latin, rock. George Webb - Oakland Ave. A tour de force of the Chicago music scene, Hood Smoke has been making lasting impressions on listeners all over the world since the release of their debut album, 2012's Laid Up In Ordinary.

You missed LOWDOWN BRASS BAND at Anodyne Coffee Roasting Company. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is my favorite band of all time," said Loiselle. And it's impossible to live in Chicago and not be influenced by alternative rock, funk, hip-hop, soul, stepping music.