The Young Tuxedo Brass Band

In the '80s, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band introduced a new generation of listeners to a New Orleans brass band tradition that had its origins in the Civil War era. They weren't the first to revive the genre, however. Indeed, it never really went away in the first place. Groups like the Excelsior, Eureka, Reliance, and Onward brass bands kept the genre alive in the first half of the 20th century; The Young Tuxedo Brass Band picked up the torch in the late '30s and early '40s.



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