New Basics Brass Band

From Rob:
In the fall of 1995 some tenderfoot college music students convened to try their hands at playing music that echoed America’s oldest sounds while stepping fast-footed with modern soul and urgency.

The past couple decades have burnished the band.  After hundreds of live shows, four studio albums, and recording with legends like Bootsy Collins & The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, New Basics is in prime form.

They have done what few bands succeed in doing – enduring.  And while navigating the ebbs & flows, and twists & turns,  they have remained excited to do what they’ve done since day one: sharing feel-good music

 

The Band:

Rob Maccabee – trumpet or baritone or sousaphone or megaphone

Johnny Bachman – trumpet

Tim Perdue – trumpet

Chris Cromley – trombone

Rashad Mitchell – trombone

Tony Zilincik – sousaphone

Johnny Polansky – drumset

Alex Burgoyne – tenor saxophone

What we sound like:

Lots of videos of the band, most are from the 19 years I wasn’t in the band – here’s one