Forgotten Souls Brass Band
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The Forgotten Souls Brass Band is a New Orleans, Louisiana, brass band
Brass band
A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section. Ensembles that include brass and woodwind instruments can in certain traditions also be termed brass bands , but are usually more correctly termed military bands, concert...

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The band performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival fairgrounds in 2009 and 2010.



The 2010 performance was broadcast live on WWOZ
WWOZ
WWOZ is a non-profit community-supported radio station in New Orleans, Louisiana broadcasting at 90.7 FM. The station specializes in music from or relating to the cultural heritage of New Orleans and the surrounding region of Louisiana.-Programming:...

 New Orleans radio.

Personnel

current and past members
  • Revert "Peanut" Andrews - trombone
  • Keith Frazier
    Keith Frazier (Musician)
    Keith Frazier is one of the founding members of Rebirth Brass Band. In the band, Frazier plays the bass drum with one hand, topped with a cymbal, of which he strikes with a wire hanger in the other....

     - bass drum
  • Kirk Joseph
    Kirk Joseph
    Kirk Joseph is a jazz sousaphone player from New Orleans, Louisiana. The son of trombonist Waldren "Frog" Joseph, Kirk Joseph began playing the sousaphone while a student at Andrew Bell Middle School, and took part in his first professional gig at the age of fifteen when his brother Charles...

     - sousaphone
  • Jeffrey Hills - sousaphone
  • Ajay Mallery - snare drum
  • Henry Petras - percussion
  • Roderick Paulin - saxophones
  • William Smith - trumpet
  • Kenneth Terry - trumpet
  • Eric Traub - saxophone


guests on albums
  • Julius "JAP" McKee - sousaphone
  • Nick Daniels - vocals
  • Donald Harrison
    Donald Harrison
    Donald Harrison, Jr. is an American jazz saxophonist from New Orleans, Louisiana.-Biography:Harrison studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and Berklee College of Music. He played with Roy Haynes, Jack McDuff, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Terence Blanchard and Don Pullen in the...

     - saxophone
  • Stanton Moore
    Stanton Moore
    Stanton Moore is a drummer raised in Metairie, Louisiana. Most widely known as a founding member of Galactic, Moore has also pursued a solo recording career and recorded with bands as diverse as jazz-funk keyboardist Robert Walter and heavy metal act Corrosion of Conformity...

     - drums
  • Joseph "Monk" Boudreaux - vocals

Discography

  • Vinyl Release: Big Chief
    Big Chief
    "Big Chief" is a song composed by Earl King in the early 1960s. It became a hit in New Orleans for Professor Longhair in 1964, featuring a whistled first chorus in a rollicking blues piano style and subsequent lyrics written in a Creole patois . The tune became popular in New Orleans, frequently...

     / Indian Red
  • Alive! Mardi Gras in San Francisco (2004) (New Orleans Music Online)
  • Gone But Not Forgotten (2001) (New Orleans Music Online)
  • Dont' Forget 'Em  (2001) (New Orleans Music Online)
  • Forgotten Souls Brass Band (2000) (New Orleans Music Online)

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