The Trio
- Trumpet
- Trombone
- Sousaphone
Fits through a front door and up a staircase. Good for walking a sefer Torah from the house to shul, a small kumzitz, or showing up at somebody’s door as a surprise.
Tight spaces · Indoors · Processions
Jewish Brass Band · New York
When the horns come in, people get up.
A brass band for a הכנסת ספר תורה, a bar mitzvah, a kumzitz, sheva brochos, camp. Three guys or fourteen. No speakers. You don’t have to find us an outlet.
The Band
Nothing changed in 4,000 years.
Same band, just louder.
תקיעה is the shofar blast. You hear it, you turn around. A horn section does the same thing in a dance set. The song is going along fine, the horns come in, and people get up. I’ve watched it happen for 35 years and it still gets me.
Trumpets, trombones, sax, sousaphone, sometimes a drummer. Nothing is plugged in. There’s no soundcheck and nobody is looking for an extension cord. We show up, we start, and the crowd figures out the rest.
I’m Danny Flam. I’ve been the horn player on Jewish records since Mona Rosenblum and Moshe Laufer were putting horns on everything. A guy at a gig once asked me to play an oldie. I’d played on the session. Tekia is those same players, out of the studio and onto your street.
- 35years of gigs
- 3–14players per booking
- 0outlets needed
Line-Ups
Three guys, five guys,
or the whole band.
Tell me the room and the budget and I’ll tell you how many guys. Small doesn’t mean quiet. Three horns fill a dining room.
The Quintet
- Trumpet
- Trombone
- Saxophone
- Sousaphone
- Snare
Add a sax and a snare drum. The sax fills the middle and the snare gives everybody something to march to. Loud enough for a street, still fits a shul hall or a backyard.
Bar mitzvah · Sheva brochos · Street
The Full Band
- Trumpets
- Trombones
- Saxes
- Sousaphones
- Drumline
Two of everything with a drumline behind it, everybody in uniform. For closing a block for a sefer Torah, camp visiting day, or a chasunah where you want the whole neighborhood to know.
Closed streets · Camps · Big crowds
Need seven? Need two? Ask. I put the section together per gig. Tell me what you have in mind.
Simchas
What people call us for
הכנסת ספר תורה
Hachnosas Sefer Torah
We walk in front of the Torah from the house to the shul and play the whole way. Outdoors, on a street, with a crowd behind us. This is the gig the band exists for.
בר מצוה
Bar Mitzvah
We walk the boy in, play the dance sets, and if you want, march him to shul Thursday morning for his first aliyah.
קומזיץ
Kumzitz
Quiet. Muted horns, no drums, the old niggunim at a volume people can sing over. Yes, brass can do quiet.
שבע ברכות
Sheva Brochos
Twenty minutes between courses, or an hour of dancing after. The trio fits in a dining room without anyone moving a table.
מחנה קיץ
Summer Camp
Visiting day, color war breakout, the Friday afternoon walk into Shabbos, the last-night banquet. Send the schedule and we’ll fit it.
ועוד
And More
Chasunah, Chanukah, Purim, Lag B’Omer, a store opening, a shul dinner, or a birthday for a zeide who has earned a band.
Watch
This is us
September 2026. This is what it sounds like on the day.
Gallery
The uniform
Full marching uniform, every player. It’s not optional. It’s half the show.
The Songs
The songs everybody knows,
and your zeide’s.
The hits from the last few years that every crowd sings along to, and the old niggunim. Pop horns, the way they sound on the records, played live in front of you. If you have songs you want, send the list. If you don’t, we’ll read the room.
Booking
Check a date
Send me the date, where it is, and roughly how many guys you’re thinking. I’ll come back with a price within a day or two.
- Email tekia@newyorkbrass.com
- Based in New York · we travel
- Shabbos We don’t play Shabbos or Yom Tov. Motzei Shabbos is fine.