Top Brass

RADIO 2, 9.00PM

 Sumptuous glamour, haunting refrains and full-bodied swing are all on the menu in this new specialist music series presented by multiinstrumentalist James Morrison, aiming to showcase the best in international brass music. As well as playing music by everything from traditional brass bands to modern New Orleans-style street bands, small group jazz, and Balkan, rock, funk, ska and oompah, the first episode features jazz trumpeter Enrico Tomasso paying tribute to his hero, the one and only Louis Armstrong.