Show 8pm

GA tickets are standing room only, with very limited seating available first come, first served.

Ventura Music Hall Presents:

THE DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND

Celebrating over 45 years since their founding in 1977, the GRAMMY Award-winning New  Orleans-based Dirty Dozen Brass Band has taken the traditional foundation of brass band  music and incorporated it into a blend of genres, including bebop jazz, funk and R&B/soul. This unique sound, described by the band as a “musical gumbo”, has allowed  the Dirty Dozen to tour across five continents and more than thirty countries, record  twelve studio albums and collaborate with a range of artists from Modest Mouse to  Widespread Panic to Norah Jones. Forty-five plus years later, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band  is a world-famous music machine whose name is synonymous with genre-bending romps  and high-octane performances. 

Roger Lewis - Baritone Sax/Vocals 

Gregory Davis - Trumpet/Vocals 

Kirk Joseph - Sousaphone 

Trevarri Huff-Boone - Tenor Sax/Vocals 

Stephen Walker - Trombone/Vocals 

Julian Addison - Drums 

Takeshi Shimmura - Guitar 

THE HISTORY OF THE DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND 

In 1977, The Dirty Dozen Social Aid and Pleasure Club in New Orleans began showcasing  a traditional Crescent City brass band. It was a joining of two proud, but antiquated,  traditions at the time: social aid and pleasure clubs dated back over a century to a time  when black southerners could rarely afford life insurance, and the clubs would provide  proper funeral arrangements. Brass bands, early predecessors of jazz as we know it,  would often follow the funeral procession playing somber dirges, then once the family of  the deceased was out of earshot, burst into jubilant dance tunes as casual onlookers  danced in the streets. By the late '70s, few of either existed.  

The Dirty Dozen Social Aid and Pleasure Club decided to assemble this group as a house  band, and over the course of these early gigs, the seven-member ensemble adopted the  venue's name: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band.