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Music
Youngblood Brass Band

When

Wednesday 23 July 2008 (7pm)

Where
Jazz Cafe (5 Parkway, NW1, 020.7485.6834) Tube: Camden Town
Price
£15
Details
http://www.jazzcafelive.com/newsandevents/templates/bookings.aspx?articleid=312&zoneid=3
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If the thought of a brass band has you picturing parks and parades, it may be time to reappraise with help from the Youngblood Brass Band. Hailing from all over the US, the nine-member horn-and-percussion group has been busy rewriting John Philip Sousa's rulebook — the YBB even got Talib Kweli to pimp out their big-band sound on their 2000 debut album, Unlearn. Several world tours later, Youngblood treat Europe to more sometimes-booming, sometimes-political, sometimes-mellow, crunk-influenced riot jazz.

Joe Rudkin