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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble to mix jazz and hip-hop at Trinity Rooms next month E-mail
Written by Alan Jacques   
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
ONE of the hottest soul acts in the world, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, play the Soul Xmas party at Trinity Rooms on Sunday December 7.
Fresh off a world tour with Jay Z the group has been talked up by everyone from Al Green to the New York Times. 
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is a eight man brass ensemble from Chicago, of which seven are the sons of Sun Ra Arkestra trumpeter Phil Cohran. The creation of Hypnotic in 1999 represented the sons’ return to their instruments  after a time of quitting music in their teenage rebellion years.
The ensemble is four trumpeters, two trombonists, a drummer and a sousaphone player. They have performed with Mos Def and recorded with Erykah Badu and Maxwell.
Judging solely from the instrumentation of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, it would be tempting, though misleading, to look to the New Orleans’s famous brass band tradition as the group’s inspiration. In fact, the musical lineage of Hypnotic’s members stems from the rich, progressive jazz scene cultivated in Chicago during the 1960s and ‘70s.
After performing in a youth ensemble put together by their father, in the 1980s, the band officially formed as the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble in 1999, and relocated to New York in 2005. The group strives to make its musical roots speak to and for its own generation, infusing imaginative jazz arrangements with a hip-hop sensibility.
Tickets cost €21 and are available now at Empire Music.

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