★★★★★
The evolution of the New Orleans brass band continues with each generation and its latest transformation can be heard in Unlock Your Mind by The Soul Rebels. The work of these eight young Crescent City natives is progressive, rhythmic and addictive. It is also highly reflective of their early exposure to New Orleans beats heard in their neighborhoods and high school marching bands with dance rhythms backing powerful horns...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2012-07-26
★★★★★
The Soul Rebels trumpet a post-hurricane Katrina sense of optimism and get the party going in full swing on Unlock Your Mind. This New Orleans-based octet implies good cheer via its up-tempo ambiance. Marked by tight horn arrangements, loosely paralleling the likes of Tower of Power or vintage James Brown, the band imparts New Orleans second-line components into a soul, pop, and jazz-centered framework outlined with a festive Mardi Gras-like deportment...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2012-02-27
★★★★★
Rounder Following the path blazed by The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Soul Rebels have studied traditional jazz and served tenure in local marching bands, using their classic foundation to break the often rigid status quo found within the New Orleans music community...
- www.relix.com
2012-02-09
★★★★★
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- www.offbeat.com
2012-01-02
★★★★★
For those comrades expecting a Marxist brass band musically espousing the teachings of H. Rap Brown, Huey P. Newton and Dr. Ernesto "Che" Guevara, accompanied by fleshy dancers in camouflage thongs, red berets and ammo belts gyrating their derrières before banners of Chairman Mao, heed the warning that the music is not that revolutionary...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-09
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