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B. B. King Blues Club
12/1/2009 9:00 PM at HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE + BAJAH & THE DRY EYE CREW
237 West 42nd St. Bet. 7th + 8th Ave. Times Square, NYC, New York 10036
Cost: $15 Adv + $18 Day
The musical lineage of Hypnotic’s members stems from the rich, progressive jazz scene cultivated in Chicago during the 1960s and ’70s. The seven brass players in the group are all sons of the esteemed jazz trumpeter Phil Cohran, a former member of the Sun Ra Arkestra, but perhaps best known as a founding member of the seminal Chicago-based jazz collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). The band embraces AACM’s collective approach to music making. While Hypnotic’s music is a far cry from the free-wheeling, party atmosphere surrounding New Orleans brass bands, the group strives to make its musical roots speak to and for its own generation, infusing imaginative jazz arrangements with a hip-hop sensibility.
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