Dirty Dozen Brass Band at Musical Instrument Museum

7pm – 9pm; $35.50–$43.50; mim.org. To describe the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, trumpet player Gregory Davis employs a tried-and-true New Orleans–centric analogy: “It ends up being like a pot of gumbo—you drop in a little okra, drop in a little shrimp, you drop in some crabs. Before you know it, you’ve mixed in all these different ingredients and you’ve got a beautiful soup. That was our approach to music early on and it still is today.” Baritone sax player Roger Lewis—who, like Davis, has been with the combo since its inception in 1977—echoes that sentiment: “It’s a big old musical gumbo, and that probably made the difference, separating us from other brass bands out of New Orleans...

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7pm – 9pm; $35.50–$43.50; mim.org. To describe the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, trumpet player Gregory Davis employs a tried-and-true New Orleans–centric analogy: “It ends up being like a pot of gumbo—you drop in a little okra, drop in a little shrimp, you drop in some crabs. Before you know it, you’ve mixed in all these different ingredients and you’ve got a beautiful soup. That was our approach to music early on and it still is today.” Baritone sax player Roger Lewis—who, like Davis, has been with the combo since its inception in 1977—echoes that sentiment: “It’s a big old musical gumbo, and that probably made the difference, separating us from other brass bands out of New Orleans. It put a different twist on the music. We were not trying to change anything, we were just playing the music we wanted to play and not stay in one particular bag.”

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