Hot 8 Brass Band definitely take the title seriously here – as they serve up a quintet of covers – including one Joy Division tune, one George Benson classic, and three Michael Jackson hits – all done by the group in their horn-heavy style! Hot 8 have always been one of the hippest brass bands on the planet – but this record definitely cinches their reputation – as they blow us away with fierce funky remakes of "Love Will Tear Us Apart", "Shake Your Body Down To The Ground", "Remember The Time", "Give Me The Night", and "Baby Be Mine". © 1996-2019, Dusty Groove, Inc.
“New Orleans is a Mecca for musicians, the city of Louis Armstrong, Alan Toussiant and Professor Longhair, and a city where music is the beating heart. Nothing is quite like the New Orleans sound; rough, ready and real.
“We’re not the best of musicians, so it’s not about the musicianship or how hard you’ve studied, or what great technique y’all have, it’s way beyond that, it touches people deeper than that.
“In most music things are very standard, don’t miss a beat, don’t miss a note but with New Orleans music, the world’s not going to end if you play the wrong note. Sometimes you make the best pieces of a wrong note, because it all goes into what that artist is expressing,”
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