• Get the app
  • Concerts
  • Charts
  • Radio Spins
  • Fast Forward 2025
  • Download Shazam
  • Apps
  • Concerts
  • Charts
  • Radio Spins
  • Fast Forward 2025
  • Help
Listen to Hot 8 Brass Band, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
On Tour

Hot 8 Brass Band

Jazz

The next Hot 8 Brass Band concert is scheduled for Sunday, June 8, 2025 at The Howlin' Wolf in New Orleans, LA, United States. See all 31 upcoming concerts
View Artist

Top Songs By Hot 8 Brass Band

Listen to Sexual Healing by Hot 8 Brass Band, see lyrics, music video & more!
Sexual HealingHot 8 Brass Band
Listen to ADULTHOOD (feat. Hot 8 Brass Band) by Jon Batiste & BJ the Chicago Kid, see lyrics, music video & more!
ADULTHOOD (feat. Hot 8 Brass Band)Jon Batiste & BJ the Chicago Kid
Listen to ADULTHOOD (feat. Hot 8 Brass Band) by Jon Batiste, see lyrics, music video & more!
ADULTHOOD (feat. Hot 8 Brass Band)Jon Batiste
Listen to We Are One by Hot 8 Brass Band, see lyrics, music video & more!
We Are OneHot 8 Brass Band
Listen to Sexual Healing by Hot 8 Brass Band, see lyrics, music video & more!
Sexual HealingHot 8 Brass Band
Listen to What's My Name? (Rock With the Hot 8) by Hot 8 Brass Band, see lyrics, music video & more!
What's My Name? (Rock With the Hot 8)Hot 8 Brass Band
Listen to Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) by Hot 8 Brass Band, see lyrics, music video & more!
Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)Hot 8 Brass Band
Listen to Love Will Tear Us Apart by Hot 8 Brass Band, see lyrics, music video & more!
Love Will Tear Us ApartHot 8 Brass Band
Listen to Rastafunk by Hot 8 Brass Band, see lyrics, music video & more!
RastafunkHot 8 Brass Band
Listen to Keepin’ It Funky by Hot 8 Brass Band, see lyrics, music video & more!
Keepin’ It FunkyHot 8 Brass Band

Upcoming Concerts for Hot 8 Brass Band

See All Concerts
  • Jun
    08
    Jun 08, 2025
    The Howlin' Wolf
    New Orleans
  • Jun
    15
    Jun 15, 2025
    The Howlin' Wolf
    New Orleans
  • Jun
    22
    Jun 22, 2025
    The Howlin' Wolf
    New Orleans
  • Jun
    29
    Jun 29, 2025
    The Howlin' Wolf
    New Orleans
  • Jul
    06
    Jul 06, 2025
    The Howlin' Wolf
    New Orleans
  • Jul
    13
    Jul 13, 2025
    The Howlin' Wolf
    New Orleans
See All Concerts

Latest Release

Listen to Big Tuba by Hot 8 Brass Band
ALBUMBig TubaHot 8 Brass Band

More albums from Hot 8 Brass Band

Listen to On the Spot by Hot 8 Brass Band
ALBUMOn the SpotHot 8 Brass Band
Listen to Tombstone by Hot 8 Brass Band
ALBUMTombstoneHot 8 Brass Band
Listen to The Life & Times Of... by Hot 8 Brass Band
ALBUMThe Life & Times Of...Hot 8 Brass Band
Listen to Rock With the Hot 8 Brass Band: Remixes by Hot 8 Brass Band
ALBUMRock With the Hot 8 Brass Band: RemixesHot 8 Brass Band
Listen to Rock With the Hot 8 Brass Band by Hot 8 Brass Band
ALBUMRock With the Hot 8 Brass BandHot 8 Brass Band
Listen to Sexual Healing Remixes by Hot 8 Brass Band
ALBUMSexual Healing RemixesHot 8 Brass Band

Hot 8 Brass Band's Popular Music Videos

Music Video

Watch New Orleans After the City music video by Hot 8 Brass Band
New Orleans After the City
Hot 8 Brass Band
Watch Ain't No Sunshine music video by Hot 8 Brass Band
Ain't No Sunshine
Hot 8 Brass Band

About Hot 8 Brass Band

Listen to Hot 8 Brass Band, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
Hometown
New Orleans, LA, United States
Formed
1995
Genre
Jazz
The internationally renowned Hot 8 Brass Band from New Orleans is one of the most enduring and innovative groups in the Crescent City lineage that dates back to Congo Square in the 1880s. Despite traveling the globe often, at home they are among the most popular -- and visible -- funk-style brass bands to participate in community parades and funerals. Their albums have all been issued on the U.K. label Tru Thoughts (which is normally associated with the music of DJ culture and soul and R&B). Several of their tracks have been remixed by well-known producers and DJs and issued as EPs. The band, whose lineup changes often but always retains its four core founding members, can feature as many as ten members. Their funk style blends elemental influences from the Dirty Dozen and Rebirth brass bands, contemporary R&B, rap, and bounce. Their unique sound is due to creative original songs and ideas composed or introduced by its members. The band was founded in 1995 when sousaphone player Bennie "Big Peter" Pete successfully merged the best players from the Looney Tunes Brass Band and the High Steppers Brass Band. They included trombonist Jerome "Baybay" Jones, Harry "Swamp Thang" Cook on bass drum, and Wendell "Cliff" Stewart on saxophone; trumpet players Terrell "Burger" Batiste, Alvarez "B.I.G. AL" Huntley, Raymond "Dr. Rackle" Williams, and Jacob Johnson; trombonists Jerome "Baybay" Jones, Keith "Wolf" Anderson, Jereau "Cousin" Fournett, Demond "Bart" Dorsey, and Joseph "Shotgun Joe" Williams, with Dinerral "Dick" Shavers on snare drum. That early lineup was shocked into change in 1996, when 17-year-old trumpeter Johnson was murdered in a home invasion. In 2004, the year before Hurricane Katrina -- which changed all their lives forever -- trombonist Demond Dorsey died of a heart attack and his section member Williams was shot and killed by the NOPD. His death remains under independent investigation over a decade later. New members were recruited and Hot 8 soldiered on, becoming ever more popular on the NOLA scene. They issued their debut long-player Rock with the Hot 8 in 2005 on Louisiana Red Hot Records. The set featured a version of Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" that was picked up on by several DJs for remixing and made its way north into dance clubs. The track has become Hot 8's de facto anthem. After the devastation left by Katrina, Hot 8 became with involved with SAVE OUR BRASS!, a local grass roots project that brought music to evacuee shelters and temporary trailer parks, as well as supporting Katrina-displaced brass bands and brass musicians with funding, supplies, and instruments to replace the ones they lost. They also became an integral part of Finding Our Folk, an organization directed at displaced New Orleanians in an effort to reunite communities of the Gulf Coast diaspora created by the storm. Hot 8 was featured prominently in Spike Lee's 2006 HBO documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (they also were an integral part of his sequel, If God Is Willing and the Creek Don't Rise in 2010). The same year, their snare drummer Shavers was shot and killed while out driving with his family. Still the band refused to quit. In the aftermath of his death they became (and remain active) in the Silence Is Violence organization, and with Save Our Brass, which supports and supplies Katrina-displaced brass bands and brass musicians with funding and sometimes instruments to replace the ones they lost. In an effort to reunite communities, Hot 8 undertook the organization's Finding Our Folk Tour, which was directed to and attended by many displaced New Orleanians. In 2007, Will "Quantic" Holland got hold of a copy of a remix of the Hot 8 cover of "Sexual Healing" and played it during a DJ set in New York -- it received enthusiastic audience approval. As a result, he also spun it for Tru Thoughts label bosses Robert Luis and Paul Jonas who, impressed, went in search of the group and its music. They signed Hot 8 and later in the year issued their "Sexual Healing" single. Limited to 500 copies, it became a rarity almost immediately. They followed it up with a reissue of the band's Rock with the Hot 8 debut. It received positive reviews globally and the label put the band on a European tour in early 2008. To accompany these shows, the label released a second single, a cover of Snoop Dogg's "What's My Name." A collection entitled Hot 8 Remixes was issued later in the year. The band began touring internationally, playing their own gigs, and opening for artists including Lauryn Hill. Their annual performances at Jazz Fest were released by local labels in 2011 and 2012. In 2012, Tru Thoughts released the band's second long-player, the autobiographical Life & Times Of.... The album featured a stellar host of originals -- some of which have become staples of the NOLA brass band scene's fakebook -- and well-received covers, including a dynamite version of the Specials' "Ghost Town." Hot 8 kicked off 2013 with the January 1 issue of the digital singles for "Homies" and "Milwaukee Fat," which were both included on their simultaneously released third album, Tombstone. The set was dedicated to former bandmembers and other departed friends and musicians. Despite its somber title and subject, the music was far from funereal. Live at Jazz Fest 2013 also appeared that year. The unit undertook U.S. and European tours and festival dates as headliners in support of the studio album. It kept them busy for the rest of the year and into 2014. They celebrated their 20th anniversary with Vicennial: 20 Years of the Hot 8 Brass Band, in 2015, a set of brand new tracks and newly recorded versions of repertoire tunes. Tru Thoughts also issued the Sexual Healing Remixes, an album's worth of versions by Ibibo Sound Machine, Maddslinky, Werkha, Space Captain, J-Felix, and others. It also included an a cappella take of Hot 8's version. A single combining a cover of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" b/w "We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the City" was also released. The band was also featured on "The What Stop (Work out Your Hips)" single by DJ Jubilee. In May 2016, the Can't Nobody Get Down EP was issued. It featured three new tracks including the title number, the funky dance jam "Take It to the House," and the uptempo party revisioning of Stevie Wonder's "That Girl" -- it also included two more remixes of "Sexual Healing" by Wrongtom and Roy Cooper, precursors to On the Spot, their fifth full-length. The set offered a host of originals including "8 Kickin It Live," "Get It How You Live," and "Bottom of the Bucket," as well as the Wonder cover, a steamy reading of Sade's "Sweetest Taboo," and the standard "St. James Infirmary." Released at the end of March, the set debuted strong on digital and streaming charts. ~ Thom Jurek
Members of Hot 8 Brass Band include, or have included, Keith Anderson.

Similar to: Hot 8 Brass Band

Discover more music and artists similar to Hot 8 Brass Band, like Rebirth Brass Band, Stooges Brass Band, To Be Continued Brass Band
Listen to Rebirth Brass Band, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
Rebirth Brass Band
Listen to Stooges Brass Band, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
Stooges Brass Band
Listen to To Be Continued Brass Band, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
To Be Continued Brass Band
Listen to Lil Rascals Brass Band, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
Lil Rascals Brass Band
Listen to The Soul Rebels, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
The Soul Rebels
Listen to Big 6 Brass Band, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
Big 6 Brass Band
Listen to New Birth Brass Band, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
New Birth Brass Band
Listen to Perico Hernández, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
Perico Hernández
Listen to 21st Century Brass Band, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
21st Century Brass Band
Listen to The Tremè Brass Band, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
The Tremè Brass Band

Shazam Footer

Select language:

Company

  • About Us
  • Apps
  • Careers
  • Help for Apple Devices
  • Help for Android Devices
  • ShazamKit for Developers

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy Policy
  • Manage Your Data
  • My Library
Google Play Store
Apple App Store
Chrome Web Store
Galaxy Store

Follow Us

© Copyright 2025 Apple Inc. and its affiliates | Supplier Responsibility
instagramSharePathic_arrow_out