The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble in Frankfurt: jazz horn sections and hip-hop interludes
Family ties: The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble in Frankfurt
Image: Mark Trebron
The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble often gets the audience dancing on the Frankfurt Sommerwiese, with a massive pulse, jumping, posing and party animation.
frankfurt ⋅ The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is always happy to tell an old story, even from the stage. Namely how, as the sons of the famous musician Kelan Philip Cohran, they were prepared for a career early on by their father, one could even say drilled. Before and after school, sometimes at dawn, her father used them in theory and practice, and today they are of course grateful for that.
The brothers have been active as a hypnotic brass ensemble since the late 1990s. In the meantime, founding members left and new cousins joined. Not all of them live in Chicago anymore, and the ensemble has moved away from Cohran’s spiritually inspired jazz aesthetic. Today, the now no longer very young musicians create a varied mix of styles that is highly entertaining and at the same time seems original, sometimes even unique. He reflects diverse influences in Afro-American music, from polished jazz horn sections to upbeat, robust hip-hop interludes. The latter may offer fewer chances for nuances, but the two part-time rappers’ flow of words and rhymes is at a high level.