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Sounds like:
Sant Andreu Jazz Band,
Andrea Motis,
Ferran Palau
By
Stacy Klein
on
Feb 9, 2021
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This romantic Spanish offering by Rita Payés would not be out of place playing softly in the background at a courtyard café in Barcelona.The gentle, brassy, Bossa Nova beats providing the perfect accompaniment to y...
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2

Sounds like:
Tuba Skinny,
Jack White,
Fats Waller
By
Delia Bartle
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Jan 20, 2017
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“Mountain Goat” is the intoxicating new release from Jazz Party, a high-energy ensemble based in Melbourne, Australia. And boy, do they start a jazz party with this husky, old school single. Infused with the soulful elements of New Orleans jazz, “Mou...
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3

Sounds like:
Hot 8 Brass Band,
Brassroots,
Todd Terje
By
Dwayne
on
Dec 16, 2016
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With holiday party season well and truly upon us, those of us lucky enough to be selecting the music are having to draw deep for tracks which appeal as much to grandmas and the boss' other-halves as they do to our contemporaries.
One solution to thi...
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4

Sounds like:
Antibalas,
Fela Kuti,
Zongo Junction
By
Peter Andrews
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Jul 19, 2016
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Danny Lubin-Laden, based in Oakland, is the organizer of Brass Magic, one of the Bay Area's most prolific bands of the moment. This brass-playing group knows how to get the party started in any setting, at any time, with a group of eight incredibly t...
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5

Sounds like:
JNTHN STEIN,
Too Many Zooz
By
Almond Ivan
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May 5, 2015
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The only time I earned a trophy in my life was in fifth grade, for having the best grade in math out of all the fifth graders in Florida. For a while, I wasn't exactly sure if I would get another trophy, but today is the day.
Two young guys from Ne...
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6

Sounds like:
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble,
Disclosure,
Rudimental
By
Laurence Morgan
on
Oct 12, 2014
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If music can be described as "infectious," then madcap instrumental group Moon Hooch are the Ebola virus of new sounds. Too soon?
Mixing house music with jazz instruments, the New York-based band replace synthetic sounds with saxophones, and, if any...
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7

Sounds like:
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson,
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
By
sweeney kovar
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Nov 13, 2013
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Musician and producer extraordinare Sylvester Onyejiaka, aka Sly 5thave, comes through with yet another pop-turned-orchestral cover.After tackling Lil Wayne and Kendrick Lamar, Sly takes Rihanna's ubiquitous trap/strip-club anthem, "Pour It Up," and ...
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8

Sounds like:
Kanye West,
Colman Brothers
By
David Peter Simon
on
Aug 25, 2013
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Remember Kanye's "All of the Lights"? That 2011 jam before he went all Yeezus. With Rihanna. Yeah, that one. Well, this track is a jazz take on it. Like a well-worn shirt, it feels perfectly familiar: soft and comfy. Even in light of that punctuatin...
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