He is a grandfather. He sports a 20th anniversary Rebirth T-shirt decorated with the band’s first logo — a horn busting out of an egg, drawn by Ruffins. Even on a day off, his cell phone ...

For decades, the Rebirth Brass Band has been one of New Orleans’ hardest working bands. When not touring the globe, its members often logged multiple gigs a day across the city. And every ...

That's not so bad. Unless Rebirth Brass Band decides to first blow the roof off the place. One would hope, however, that they'd reserve that for cities where it doesn't rain as much. Plus ...

During the first episode of HBO’s Treme, members of the Rebirth Brass Band and the show’s trombone-playing character Antoine Batiste end a jazz parade in front of a neighborhood bar owned by ...

so they headed over to Bourbon Street and launched themselves as a street band.Part of ReBirth’s longstanding appeal has been its ability to incorporate contemporary jazz, soul, hip-hop and R&B into a ...

Hurricane Katrina had a devastating impact on New Orleans. But Rebirth Brass Band founder Keith Frazier says it didn’t change the music. “We had people settle in Houston, Dallas, Atlanta ...

Rebirth Brass band performs in Vail in February. Photo by Jason Blevins. During the climactic, vociferous peak of Rebirth Brass Band’s “Do Whatcha Wanna” last Wednesday, everything in the ...

On the Louisiana home turf of the Rebirth Brass Band, that legacy is something to be taken seriously. You might ham it up for the partiers and tourists, but you can’t sleepwalk through the ...

The Rebirth Brass Band, a popular New Orleans brass band, brings a horn-heavy good time wherever they go. And since they’re the only band on the bill tonight at the Tractor Tavern, they’re ...