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Funeral For A Friend

New Orleans' the Dirty Dozen Brass Band is the rotating roster of brass players created twenty-seven years ago to lead jazz funerals. In a twist of fate, the band has returned to its roots after one of its own, co-founder Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, died of a heart attack. Funeral for a Friend opens...

2004 RS: Not Rated

Voodoo

1987

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In classic New Orleans tradition, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band started out as an all-acoustic ensemble in which everyone but the drummers played wind in-struments. Things have changed over the years -- the group's recordings include guitarists and keyboard players -- but the group's marching-music roots remain so strong that almost everything it records uses a sousaphone instead of a string bass.

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