Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Book of Sound

Hudah, Cid, Baji, L.T., Yosh, Rocco and Clef and Smoove—eight sons of the jazz trumpeter, astral jazz pioneer, and black American icon Phil Cohran—grew up on Chicago’s South Side living apart from their peers. They were raised as vegans. They wore homemade clothes and hand-me-downs to school. And they lined up sometimes before dawn every morning for practice. Cohran taught his sons to play their horns young, in some cases shortly after they learned to walk, and they would line up as a family for “long tones,” where they emptied all the breath in their bodies into their horns, generating one rich drone that greeted the sunrise.