Byron Asher is a saxophonist and clarinetist and composer based in New Orleans and working at the intersection of broadly experimental composition and jazz and improvised music. Raised in Maryland, he has become an integral member of New Orleans’ creative music community since arriving there in 2011, working as a bandleader, collaborator, improviser, composer, and […]
Sound Observatory New Orleans hosts a rotating series of artists in residence that step on stage each month in a curated show deemed The Shape of Jazz to Come.
Four piece band playing original music from the four corners of the earth.
Since 2010, this band has been spreading their incredible sound around the globe. Hailing from the musical hotbed of New Orleans, the Brass-a-Holics infuse the traditional New Orleans brass sound with a heavy dose of electrifying go-go funk from Washington D.C. Picture the core New Orleans brass elements - trumpet, trombone, saxophone - backed by […]