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Kirk Joseph (born 1961) is a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 sousaphone
Sousaphone

The sousaphone is a wearable tuba descended from the h?licon, and designed in an ergonomically efficient way such that it fits around the body of the wearer, and so it can be easily played while being worn....
 player from New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the New Orleans metropolitan area metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state....
. The son of trombonist
Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass instrument family. Like all brass instruments, it is a lip-reed aerophone: sound is produced when the player?s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate....
 Waldren "Frog" Joseph
Waldren Joseph

Waldren "Frog" Joseph was a jazz trombone player from New Orleans, Louisiana. He played in a variety of styles over his career but was best known as a performer of traditional New Orleans jazz in the style carried on today by the Preservation Hall ensembles....
, Kirk Joseph began playing the sousaphone while a student at Andrew Bell Middle School, and took part in his first professional gig at the age of fifteen when his brother Charles
Charles Joseph

Charles Joseph is a jazz trombone player from New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana, United States. The son of trombonist Waldren Joseph, he has played with the Majestic Band and Tornado Brass Band, and was one of the founding members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band....
 invited him to play a funeral with the Majestic Band. in 1977 he became one of the founding members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Dirty Dozen Brass Band

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a New Orleans, Louisiana, brass band. The ensemble was established in 1977 by Benny Jones together with members of the Tornado Brass Band....
, a group which is credited with reviving the brass band
Brass band

A brass band is a musical group generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section. Ensembles which include brass and woodwind instruments can in certain traditions also be termed brass bands , but are usually more correctly termed military bands, concert bands, wind bands or wind ensembles....
 tradition in New Orleans.






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Kirk Joseph (born 1961) is a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 sousaphone
Sousaphone

The sousaphone is a wearable tuba descended from the h?licon, and designed in an ergonomically efficient way such that it fits around the body of the wearer, and so it can be easily played while being worn....
 player from New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the New Orleans metropolitan area metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state....
. The son of trombonist
Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass instrument family. Like all brass instruments, it is a lip-reed aerophone: sound is produced when the player?s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate....
 Waldren "Frog" Joseph
Waldren Joseph

Waldren "Frog" Joseph was a jazz trombone player from New Orleans, Louisiana. He played in a variety of styles over his career but was best known as a performer of traditional New Orleans jazz in the style carried on today by the Preservation Hall ensembles....
, Kirk Joseph began playing the sousaphone while a student at Andrew Bell Middle School, and took part in his first professional gig at the age of fifteen when his brother Charles
Charles Joseph

Charles Joseph is a jazz trombone player from New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana, United States. The son of trombonist Waldren Joseph, he has played with the Majestic Band and Tornado Brass Band, and was one of the founding members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band....
 invited him to play a funeral with the Majestic Band. in 1977 he became one of the founding members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Dirty Dozen Brass Band

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a New Orleans, Louisiana, brass band. The ensemble was established in 1977 by Benny Jones together with members of the Tornado Brass Band....
, a group which is credited with reviving the brass band
Brass band

A brass band is a musical group generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section. Ensembles which include brass and woodwind instruments can in certain traditions also be termed brass bands , but are usually more correctly termed military bands, concert bands, wind bands or wind ensembles....
 tradition in New Orleans. He has played with the Treme Brass Band
Treme Brass Band

The Treme Brass Band is a marching brass band from New Orleans, Louisiana led by snare drummer Benny Jones, Sr. The band, which plays traditional New Orleans-style brass band music, features a shifting lineup that has included trumpet Kermit Ruffins and James Andrews, tenor saxophone Elliot Callier and Frederick Sheppard, trombone Corey Henr...
 and Forgotten Souls Brass Band, and currently leads his own group called Kirk Joseph's Backyard Groove
Kirk Joseph's Backyard Groove

Kirk Joseph's Backyard Groove is a band led by sousaphone player Kirk Joseph. Formed in 2004, the group plays a "rhythmic and high-spirited concoction of jazz, funk, and afro-caribbean flavors" ....
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Described as a "modern sousaphone pioneer" , Joseph claims inspiration from renowned New Orleans tuba
Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped Mouthpiece ....
 player Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen
Anthony Lacen

Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen was a jazz tuba and band leader. Tuba Fats was New Orleans' most famous tuba player and played traditional New Orleans jazz and blues for over 40 years....
. In an interview with The Times-Picayune Joseph described the effect Lacen's playing had on his own: "He was the first person I ever heard walking the sousaphone, making it sound like bass.... I took it from there." The style of playing created by Lacen and Joseph was instrumental in establishing the modern New Orleans brass band sound, which combines traditional marching band and Dixieland
Dixieland

Dixieland music or sometimes referred to as Hot jazz or New Orleans jazz is a style of jazz which developed in New Orleans, Louisiana at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s....
 traditions with strong jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and funk influences.

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