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Rebirth Brass Band
Rebirth Brass Band
American brass band
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Young Tuxedo Brass Band
Young Tuxedo Brass Band
American brass band
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To Be Continued Brass Band
To Be Continued Brass Band
American brass band from Louisiana
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Olympia Brass Band
Olympia Brass Band
musical group
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
American musical group; New Orleans, Louisiana, brass band
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Danny Barker
Danny Barker
American jazz musician
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Hot 8 Brass Band
Hot 8 Brass Band
New Orleans brass band formed in 1995
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Ray Anderson
Ray Anderson
American trombonist/jazz/trumpet player
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Don Butterfield
Don Butterfield
American musician
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Youngblood Brass Band
Youngblood Brass Band
band
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Bill Barber
Bill Barber
American musician
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Walter Payton
Walter Payton
American musician
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Allan Jaffe
Allan Jaffe
African-American jazz musician
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George Lewis
George Lewis
American musician
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Hazmat Modine
Hazmat Modine
American world jazz blues band based in New York City
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Big Bill Bissonnette
Big Bill Bissonnette
Jazz trombonist and record producer
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Leroy Jones
Leroy Jones
American musician
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King Oliver
King Oliver
American jazz cornet player and bandleader
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George Probert
George Probert
American musician
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Achille Baquet
Achille Baquet
American musician
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George Baquet
George Baquet
American musician
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Chink Martin
Chink Martin
American jazz tuba player
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Donald Harrison
Donald Harrison
musician, composer, producer, instructor
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Jon Batiste
Jon Batiste
American cross-genre musician
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Galactic
Galactic
band
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Clark Gayton
Clark Gayton
American musician
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Tricky Sam Nanton
Tricky Sam Nanton
American musician
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Lady Tambourine
Lady Tambourine
American gospel musician from Louisiana
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Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
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Trombone Shorty
Trombone Shorty
American trombone player
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Eddie Bo
Eddie Bo
New Orleans jazz musician
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Lawrence Marrero
Lawrence Marrero
American jazz banjoist
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Treme Brass Band
Treme Brass Band
American brass band
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Red Callender
Red Callender
American string bass and tuba player, member of The Wrecking Crew
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Steve Masakowski
Steve Masakowski
musical artist
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Kermit Ruffins
Kermit Ruffins
American musician
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Terry Waldo
Terry Waldo
American musician
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Freddie Keppard
Freddie Keppard
American jazz musician
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Joseph Petit
Joseph Petit
American musician
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Paul Barbarin
Paul Barbarin
American musician
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Anders Osborne
Anders Osborne
American singer-songwriter
Intro
American musician

Kirk Joseph (born 1961) is a jazz sousaphone player from New Orleans, Louisiana. The son of trombonist Waldren "Frog" Joseph, 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 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, a group which is credited with reviving the brass band tradition in New Orleans. He has played with the Treme Brass Band and Forgotten Souls Brass Band, and currently leads his own group called Kirk Joseph's Backyard Groove.

Described as a "modern sousaphone pioneer", Joseph claims inspiration from renowned New Orleans tuba player Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen. 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 traditions with strong jazz and funk influences.