Dharma Brass Band was recently formed by trombonist Jamie Dubberly, to continue the concept of fusing the sounds of New Orleans style brass bands with Afro-Caribbean jazz and salsa that his Orquesta Dharma explored in the album La Clave Del Gumbo. The group’s instrumentation is a hybrid of both NOLA brass band and Salsa bands, with the Sousaphone as the bass, drums, congas,
timbales, and a full horn section of trumpets, trombones and saxophones. Soneros Armando Cordoba and Christelle Durandy add a dynamic vocal element to the sound of the band, which can seamlessly transition from a second line groove evoking the streets of NOLA, to a descarga in NYC’s El Barrio- Spanish Harlem. Drawing on the rich tradition of Latin Jazz on the West Coast, this band is representative of the tremendous diversity and excellence that the Bay Area latin music scene has and looks forward , in innovating a new sound that also broadcasts an important message of social equality and activism.