Tuba Skinny is a traditional jazz street band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The ensemble draws its inspiration from the early jazz, ragtime, and blues music of the 1920s and 1930s.
NOJO5 is a dynamic five-piece ensemble drawn from the full New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, led by Grammy®-winning drummer and artistic director Adonis Rose.
Born in New Orleans, Braud comes from a family of world-renowned musicians. Traditional jazz, R&B and the great American songbook inspire his engaging music.
Brunious was born into a Louisiana Creole family, the son of Nazimova “Chinee” Santiago and John “Picket” Brunious, Sr., a trumpeter who studied at Juilliard and played with the Onward Brass Band, Young Tuxedo Brass Band, and Paul Barbarin, and who arranged for Billy Eckstine and Cab Calloway.