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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On May 17, the Rebirth Brass Band took the stage at Harlem’s Apollo Theater alongside Bettye LaVette, Quincy Jones, Bono, and a host of other musical greats. Five days later they were back home ...

Grammy-winning Rebirth Brass Band is a globally renowned paragon of the New Orleans' brass band tradition. They are celebrated for melding their tradition with second-line, funk, jazz, soul, and ...

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 ...