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Sammie "Big Sam" Williams is a trombonist and band leader from New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been a member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and currently leads Big Sam's Funky Nation. In youth he studied with educator and saxophonist Kidd Jordan and at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). Check our available Big Sam's Funky Nation concert ticket inventory and get your tickets here at ConcertBank now. Sign up for an email alert to be notified the moment we have tickets!


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★★★★★
Even in New Orleans, you don't usually find funk bands as brassy, brass bands as funky, or brass-funk bands as jazzy as Big Sam's Funky Nation. But above all else on this eleven-track debut, the party is king on Take Me Back — as evidenced by titles like "Get Down," "Funky People," "Shake Yo Thang," and, um, "Party." There are no big insights laying for us deep in these grooves, despite a general aura of family positivity that stretches from Sly to Ozomatli and back again...
- www.offbeat.com
★★★★★
Whenever someone tries to fuse brass-band music with anything else, the brass band sound usually overwhelms, as if it's just too cocky to move onto other turf. Trombonist Big Sam Williams was part of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band during that group's not-entirely-successful flirtation with funk. But with Funky Nation he's found the right mix, with players who can handle the jumps between funk, brass and free-form blowing; and with compositions strong enough to hold it together...
- www.offbeat.com
★★★★★
Big Sam's Funky Nation is not going to confuse you. On King of the Party, Sam Williams and company pick up the funk-rock blend that Trombone Shorty and Bonerama have been toying with and puts it in your face. Guitars on 10, arena rock drums and the horns blaring like they're in the phone booth with you...
- www.offbeat.com
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