It is with great sadness that we inform the HBS membership of the unexpected passing on July 11, 2019, of Dr. Joella F. Utley, wife of the late Dr. Joe Roy Utley (1935–2001). 

On June 12, 2019, Metropolitan Museum musical instrument curators Bradley Strauchen and Herbert Heyde were joined by trumpeter Frank Hosticka, saxophonist Paul Cohen, and HBS President Jeff Nussbaum on an excursion to view Scott Robinson’s eclectic instrument collection housed in every nook and cranny of his home in New Jersey.

Making the Jazz Gumbo: An International Conference on Repertoires that Influenced and were Influenced by Early Jazz

Marking the 100^th Anniversary of the death of James Reese Europe

Presented by the Historic Brass Society, with support from the City University Of New York Graduate Center

May 8, 2019

CUNY Graduate Center, NYC

Jimmy Owens and Bobby Sanabria – Co-Musical Directors

Jeff Nussbaum and John Graziano – Co-Conference Directors

Scholars and Performers to include: Jason Moran, Ehud Asherie, Frederick Starr, Jack Stewart, Michael Dinwiddle, Ned Sublette, Krin Gabbard, Ralph Barrett, Graham Haynes, Paul Niemisto, Thomas Garcia, Laura Moore Pruett + 20 Piece Period-Instrument Band.

The 2019 Early Brass Festival of the Historic Brass Society (HBS) will be held in conjunction with Vintage Band Festival in Northfield, Minnesota. The Early Brass Festival will take place August 2-4, 2019, primarily at the Weitz Center for Creativity on the campus of Carleton College in Northfield.

In addition to a membership meeting and musical performances by attendees, the HBS gathering will feature more than a dozen scholarly presentations on variety of topics. The complete schedule for the three-day event follows. To register, download the Early Brass Festival registration form.

Once again the Cambridge Woodwind Makers will be offering summer workshops in which participants get to build their own instruments (cornetto and/or natural trumpet). The Natural Trumpet workshop led by Bob Barclay and Richard Seraphinoff will be held June 24-28, 2019. For more information click here. Sam Goble and Andrew Hallock will lead the Cornetto workshop, held August 26-30, 2019, click here for further information. Participants in either course do not need to have prior experience in metal/woodworking, and you walk away with a playable instrument!