Local/Live: November 11 – Extra Crispy Brass Band (live at Todd Wehr Conference Center)
POSTED:: November 5, 2014
FILED UNDER:: General, Interviews, Local/Live, Special Programming
The Extra Crispy Brass Band (or EC Brass Band or ECBB) plays New Orleans-style brass band music inspired by the great contemporary bands such as the Dirty Dozen, Hot Eight, Rebirth, and New Birth Brass Bands as well as traditional outfits such as the Olympia and Mahogany Brass Bands. The EC Brass Band’s repertoire includes pieces from the turn of last century (1900!), traditionals by Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet, modern funk tunes, and originals.
The Extra Crispy Brass Band played its first show on September 1, 2011, at the venerable Uptowner in Riverwest, Milwaukee and has since played a slew of high profile gigs at Bastille Days, Jazz in the Park, Jean’s Jazz Series, Turner Hall Ballroom/Radio 88.9, Burnhearts Fest, and Cathedral Square/WMSE Backyard BBQ, State Fair, The Chicago Theater, and numerous festivals around the upper Midwest, as well as doing educational shows at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and public schools in greater Milwaukee. They held down a monthly residency at the Uptowner for three years that became a favorite event for music lovers and swing dancers alike. Now the ECBB holds court every third Thursday at the Jazz Estate. The ECBB won a WAMI for best horn band/big band of 2014.
Tune into WMSE or WMSE.org at the 6 o’clock hour for a live radio segment and set from MSOE’s Todd Wehr Conference Center or stop by for a free-to-the-public event at 1047 N. Broadway. Doors open at 5:30pm, live segment starts at 6pm with a special 30 minute set to follow the segment, off-air, at 7pm.