No BS! Brass Band: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2013
- Just southeast of the Virginia Commonwealth University campus in Richmond, Va., lies a compact neighborhood called Oregon Hill. Historically, it's been a (white) working-class part of town, affordable for students and various bohemian types. Recording engineer Lance Koehler was drawn to the place when he moved to Richmond from New Orleans; it's where he eventually found a two-story garage and converted it into his own recording studio and home. It didn't take him long to start doing business across the Richmond music map: Koehler is good at his job, and he's affordable. His business is called Minimum Wage Studios for a reason.
He's also a drummer, and though he grew up in Southern California, his time in New Orleans left a deep impression. Inspired by the Crescent City's modern brass bands, in 2006 he started the NO BS! Brass Band with trombonist Reggie Pace. They had a place to fit between 10 and 13 musicians for rehearsal, and they had the means to document their work. And, owing to VCU and its conservatory program - with a history of producing top-notch jazz players - they had plenty of great horn players at their disposal.
Funky and danceable, the NO BS! Brass Band takes after the full black-music continuum you hear in groups like Rebirth or the Hot 8. But it's also proggy, and a bit brutalizing, and full of pride in a different Southern outpost. The group's new album is called RVA All Day, after all. And about that jazz cred: In July, it'll release another album called Fight Song, so named because it features the band's arrangements of Charles Mingus compositions.
Recently, Koehler, Pace and nine other musicians piled into a bus and journeyed up the freeway to NPR Music's Tiny Desk in Washington, D.C. They blasted us with songs from the new album - it was so loud, you could hear the music on the other side of the building, a floor down. And this summer, when Pace isn't out with Bon Iver's touring band, they'll strike out from Oregon Hill to fly the Richmond flag up and down the East Coast.
--PATRICK JARENWATTANANON
Set List
"RVA All Day"
"Run Around"
"Infamous"
Personnel
Lance Koehler, drums
Reggie Pace, trombone
Bryan Hooten, trombone/vocals
John Hulley, trombone
Dillard Watt, bass trombone
David Hood, alto saxophone
Marcus Tenney, trumpet
Sam Koff, trumpet
Ben Court, trumpet
Taylor Barnett, trumpet
Stefan Demetriadis, tuba
Credits
Producer: Patrick Jarenwattananon; Editor: Gabriella Garcia-Pardo; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Denise DeBelius, Gabriella Garcia-Pardo
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can't see the drummer but you can sure as heck feel him
You can see Lance Koehler towards the end, beard n'all, fundamental, a great recording in such a small space
These guys are adorably nerdy and totally badass at the same time. I love brass bands.
The tuba player (yes, its a modified tuba) gets no love but he's laying down some serious bass grooves. And the drummer is the total truth.
Mudhole Stomp Gets no love? Where's the love queue? Pretty sure they're all awesome and the tuba was the first one I noticed because the way the fat guy holds it.
Mudhole Stomp Yeah, not sure who's not showing the love. He is working hard! Hell, I played the trumpet for years and once in awhile I would get thrown onto Baritone Treble Clef (same music, fingering, etc) and I thought I was going to die every time and that thing is HALF the size of tuba. They have a tight sound and I love it. No BS.
itsamemario333 im confused how is the tuba player fat
itsamemario333 im confused how is the tuba player fat
No its not a modified tuba, it's a contra, not modified at all. Just redesigned ;)
Man, that's the funkiest tuba player, holding down the fort. I love everyone, thanks for putting a smile on my face listening to this.
anybody else dying to watch the drummer playing.
Ha
Damn , i'm not the only one ! i want to see that guy groovin !
yes. especially on that last one
JayDizz92 me being a drummer, I could feel the groove just being poured on.
Definitely...us drummers always get sidelined.
The trombone player in the purple shirt is absolutely insane! He’s doing some crazy tonguing and is getting up to ridiculously high notes. I play trombone and that stuff is hard!
Bro is playing fast asf
🔥📯😈🦋
I'm impressed, the drummer & tuba player is putting in work for sure
Accidentally wound up here and I am content as hell
the desk concerts are often really good!
Nathan Pleasants -. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆 LOL
There are no accidents
Trust lol I was looking for youngblood brass but can't complain
I'm in awe of the sound engineers every time. How on earth do you manage to get such gorgeous sound out of a setup like this?
Almost looks like 1 🎤!
It's nuts isn't it! Most tidy desks sound better than the album versions
My gawd the sound mixing on this is incredible. That's not a studio and these always sound amazing. So props to them
I want these guys to play at my funeral! I want folks rockin' out, thinking about how great life is and what having fun looks like while throwing back some great food and some good cocktails. I want my life portrayed by this band and these guys. Good stuff guys!
Gotta love the Low Low Brass :D Being a Tuba, Trombone, and Bass Trombone Player just gotta give them 1,000 props :D
There's a drummer in there... Somewhere...
The drummer is buried under a mountain of horn cases!!!!!!!!
...somewhere deep in the pocket
He's recoding
11:43 six years but you found him ;)
He’s IN the desk!
RVA All day: 0:00
Run around: 4:19
Infamous: 8:40
I'm a drummer, but my daughter is learning the tuba. I showed her this video for inspiration. Such great memories when I watch this. Looking back on it: this was a happy time before a lot of sad things happened in the world. Bravo to the soloists and the "worker" musicians that gave body to all the warm tones. Bottom line: Love the power and sound of all that brass!
No BS brass kills it every time I see them. Richmond VA representing keep up the great work guys! Thanks NPR Tiny Desk for hosting such great musicians.
This is what happens when band nerds go to college for music. Awesome.
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Indeed true...cause I'm currently one band nerds in college 1 😅😁
🤣🤣🤣 That's why I got not just one, but two degrees in music!
God bless band nerds. This band nerd is hooked!
You get a wicked jazz band.
There are some dads in this brass band that annoys the heck out of their teenage kids every weekend morning. No sleeping in in Brass Dads house!
THAT TUBA PLAYER IS SO BOSS.
I can barely even hear him 😂
TUBA PLAYER IS A GOD.
TRUTH
4 years late ... fck yeah he is 🔥
Chills
He is until you listen to Youngblood Brass Band.
Contra, but yes
The trumpet player in purple is my theory professor at VCU! Just thought I'd share haha
Marten Dekker He means the light purple trumpet player, why do people on youtube feel the need to be so pedantic?
haha he looks very professorish
He certainly looks that way haha. He killed the look of the band with his clothes.
Marten Dekker EXCUSE YOU AT LEAST WE KNOW WHAT THEY’RE SAYING UNLIKE MOST RAPPERS THAT I CAN THINK OF
Does Rex Richardson teach at VCU also?
They should call themselves the No BS Brass band and a drummer who is totally killin it!!!! next time show some love to your drummer and give him a little camera time. He sounded like he was playing his butt off lol. Great video guys.
GuerrillaStyleFilms He's also the founder of the band...
GuerrillaStyleFilms im sure he gets love in different venues. tiny desk concert usually has the whole band crammed in a corner so that might be the reason for lack of camera time. You are right though he has some mean grooves.
+ a lonely saxophone
Varga Sámuel Dude, the sax is already includes in the title.
But they got woodwinds
I'm just checking out these guys for the first time. I'm really digging the variety of sounds here.
Infectious melodies and earworm qualities aside, these dudes are badass musicians. The brassy, throaty cadences of a high school marching band are the backbone of these songs, but I especically love the heavy spin on it with the drummer's attitude and power, it definitely supports the rest of the ensemble well. I hear a lot of jazz thrown in on the solo sections of these songs. The passages are hectic and make the songs feel even better-structured after the fact. I also really love the megaphone vocals; it also harkens back to that high-school pep rally feeling. The whole thing gives off this wild, urban, robust sound that I didn't know I needed in my life.
I hate sounding like a douchey music critic, but damn, I just needed to get those thoughts written down because I've not grown to like such an eclectic group this fast before. A-1 stuff.
Panic the Kid Apt analysis, apt indeed
Very well put!
Awesome insight
Ok this is beyond sick, their stage presence is remarkable I love this
Tuba man. They seem to leave you out. You are the bomb!
That tuba player is right on! Non stop amazing! Love it!!!
this is so fucking lit
The trombones are killin it!
Yeah, Dennis Rollins style solos - lovin' it!
Soloist, especially!!
That tuba is doing work at 7:30
Lucas Norrington dammn
phat
SHOUTOUT TO ALL OF MY FELLOW TROMBONES AND DEM BARS ON RVA ALL DAY
If you want to see the drummer, go to "11:00" ;)
wow! make me feel good! thanks you for your energy and groove!
listening in mexico
so fresh everytime i listen
still gettin love in 2024!! awesome stuff....
Awesome groove with these fellas!! Love it
So in tune. Nice
Absolutely FANTASTIC!!
What a great bunch of musicians - doesn't get much better than that!
Great band. I met Taylor Barnett's brother at a hotel in Charlottesville while traveling and he told me to check this out.....I'm glad I did!
Watch out, folks. The Tiny Desk just got loud. Good stuff.
I love the splits between the tuba and trombone, just yes.
You guys are *AMAZING*!
You guys are just fricken awesome fantastic music !! Thank you for sharing !!
That trumpet who took a solo on infamous is such a beast. I think I might learn a couple of these tunes, they're hot!
HOLY crap I love those sweet trombone solo's are awesome
These guys a freaking awesome!
I love how on the right the tuba and the 2 trombones are acting really hype, meanwhile the trumpets look they want to be anywhere but there xD
As a trumpet player who sits in front of the trombone section in a concert setting, i can tell you that trombones usually have the best personalities, and the trumpets are usually too cool for school or hella egotistical
+PatFreakinRick what about tubas?
+PatFreakinRick YEEESSS!!!!
+Allan Tayor There always the hype people
pgily as a trombone I second this XD that itself was a bit egotistical but I know my section well and we are the type that hold the band down, have a lot of incredible musicians, yet we are very fun and make sure to not take things too seriously.
No BS! is like the perfect mix of ska, funk, and hip hop.
This band is amazing!
This is just so darn good!!
spending so much time in new orleans ...there is no better sound than the power of brass line!
y'all sound amaaaazing!
I'M DANCING IN THE COUCH !! AMAAAAZIIING BOYS!!!
JUJUJU
Haven't heard these guys till now. Pretty sick. I'm now a fan.
Very nice! Love it!
Diosssss! increible !
A whole lota spit be all over that phat juicy music! What an energetic group of fun!
At 1:09 I about lost it… Brass POWER! Drummer is killing it as well
Funny, I lived in Richmond VA for 7 years and never heard of these guys. I was also a active trumpeter in the area and was 'starving' to see live music like this.
superb Trombone sound! I've never heard such a crispy sound!
You're amazing! Great music!
Came here looking for epic brass music. Not what I was looking for but not disapointed at all! :D
love this group so funky
Oh wow -- what a find! Now I know. Will spread the word. True musicians. Praise the rhythm and diversity.
Having a bad day....... cheers me up everytime.....
You guys are smashing it.... I Love it!!! RVA!!!!!! NO BS!
Yet another Tiny Desk video that has truly made my day 🎷🎺🥁
Ok y'all lit!!!!!
Ascolto questa meravigliosa per la prima volta. Posso dire solo una cosa ...stupendi
This gaggle of guys. A+
Thank you for your Cooooool Music ! It's so just a Music Power !!
MUSIC IS SO GREAT
very good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my... I enjoyed this so much! Amazing!
SOOOOO CREATIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The trumpet solo in the last song infamous..killed it! Love this video
amazing!
Loved it, thanks tiny desk and no bs
awesome beats!
sounds great
These guys are awesome. Remind me a lot of Snarky Puppy (minus the guitars). Can't get enough.
Music to my ears...
Could've shot the drummer in there 1 time. Sheesh! He gets busy. Shouts to the band. Just stumbled on to this group and video.
this is sooooo cool ....
This video is my favorite of 2020! These guys are HOT and SWINGIN..I can't stop dancing, singing, playing with them!! Don't want to, can't make me!! My heaven is No BS.
These guys remind me of Youngblood Brass Band, and that's a wonderful thing! Anyone who digs this and isn't familiar with YBB, check them out, they're legendary.
+skyzefawlun
TRUTH!!!
I thought the same thing.
I am Obsessed with their song Brooklyn
@@julesunderscore Late to the game; but so am I!
Ivo Tierie 3 years later and they’re still my favorite band
This is incredible!
These guys are the real deal holy crap
GOOD ASS DRUMS AND CONTRA!!!!!
+jaman198 convertable tuba*
+CHKNnuclei no, it's a covert able tuba, look at the tubing. contras are made differently.
+CHKNnuclei yep contra bass
+Jaesh Jurbs ur right. its where the valves r positioned tht makes this a converted tuba. I'd still call it a contra tho lol
jaman198. They have an Contra Bass double B flat Trombone player too!! He tears it up too!!! :-)
Absolute fire! Keep up, lads.
2:44 The rap with the megaphone was an amazing effect. I loved it!! This is an amazing group, great energy! The trombones are just ROCKIN it!
i haven't had this much fun in a while.
Who on earth would thumbs down this??
Sax quartets
@@counterfit5 hahaha🤣😂🤣
This is so kickass on so many levels! :D
Hola! soy de Peru y muy bueno el grupo , el tema es bastante pegagozo y atrae tiene buen ritmo , exitos!!!
This is one of the best Tiny Desk Concerts out here!
Amazing!!!
That is really nice...
Awesome sound!
7:30 oh damnnn that tuba bass. I have heard some dope shit and that is up there
Saxophone... in a Brass band...
I'll allow it.
donaldengine9 that’s cuz they superior
@@unclejessekush9987 and cause they made of brass...see L u c k y C h o p s
It's a brass band? That's why?, good luck...
for the uninitiated, saxophones are not a brass instrument
It’s both