Hypnotic Brass Ensemble present Hypnotic Thursdays

5311 South Lake Park Avenue West,Chicago IL 60615

19 August, 2021

Description

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Hypnotic Thursdays All Ages Doors 7:00pm Ends 11:30pm VIP - $42 (reserved seating/front rows) Table Seating - $34 General Admission - $20 The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is a family band consisting of seven blood brothers who began their musical training at the tender ages of four and five by their father, Jazz trumpeter/band leader Kelan Phil Cohran (EARTH, WIND, & FIRE, CHAKA KHAN, SUN RA). The boys went on to form the Phil Cohran Youth Ensemble in 1990. The family toured the United States performing the complex original written Jazz compositions of Cohran and other greats such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and even the music of classical greats Bach & Beethoven. Although the group’s early musical training encompassed primarily elements of instrumental performance, the brothers were personally being exposed to the music of their own genera-on (hip-hop, rock, reggae to name a few) and absorbed these components into the cosmic jazz style of their father. By 1999, the band of brothers discontinued playing with dad in order to find their own sound, growing into the band now known as Hypnotic Brass Ensemble or HBE. The group’s sound was best put by Fader Magazine’s Edwin Stats who called the band’s music: “a huge brass bridge of hypnotic polyphony connecting the cosmic jazz of Sun Ra’s Arkestra with the urgency of hip-hop and the sweeping emotional scale of a Curtis Mayfield blaxploitafion opus.” Hypnotic Brass Ensemble