by Half Dozen Brass Band<\/a><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n A handful of Georgia\u2019s most in-demand horn players have come together to form Half Dozen Brass Band, an ensemble that plays its own infectious blend of jazz, hip-hop, funk, and Dixieland. \u00a0HDBB\u00a0offers the kind of celebratory music that thrives in the streets of the Big Easy, equally at home on stages or sidewalks. <\/span>Named for its core of six founding members, HDBB was formed in May 2008 and quickly garnered local acclaim in Athens, GA, winning the 2009 Flagpole Athens Music Award Winner for \u201cBest Jazz Band.\u201d<\/p>\n Members of HDBB\u00a0have performed in New Orleans and around the country with the likes of Ray Charles, Antsy McClain, Maynard Ferguson,\u00a0 Little Anthony & the Imperials, The O\u2019Jays, The Four Tops, The Temptations, JazzChronic, The Corduroy Road, Tommy Smothers, Lou Rawls, and Clarence \u201cGatemouth\u201d Brown.<\/p>\n HDBB\u00a0showcases a rare ability to be celebratory and smooth at the same time.\u00a0\u00a0There is a clean sense of symbiosis and exchange in \u201cFloatin’ Down Catawba\u201d and \u201cWhere Otis Went\u201d\u2014<\/span>horns speaking back and forth, yet never crowding one another.\u00a0 HDBB serves up, if not a rebirth, then certainly a hearty dose of the cool. \u2013\u00a0Zachary Greenberg<\/em><\/p>\n Listen to Half Dozen Brass Band’s Floatin’ Down Catawba<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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