Too Many Zooz
| Too Many Zooz | |
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 Too Many Zooz live in Seattle (2015) |
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| General information | |
| origin | New York City , New York , US |
| Genre (s) | Brass House |
| founding | 2014 |
| Website | www.toomanyzooz.com |
| Founding members | |
| Leo Pellegrino | |
| David Parks | |
| Matt Doe | |
Too Many Zooz is an American brass house band from New York City . The band consists of the three founding members Leo Pellegrino ( baritone saxophone ), Matt "Doe" Muirhead ( trumpet ) and David "King of Sludge" Parks ( drum ).
history
Leo Pellegrino and Matt "Doe" Muirhead met at the Manhattan School of Music . They met David Parks from the band Drumadics and began to play street music together in the New York subway stations as a trio, which they themselves call brass house . Too Many Zooz achieved greater notoriety after a video recording of one of their gigs at New York's Union Square Station in March 2014 spread to YouTube and Facebook in December 2015.
In addition to a studio album , the band has released several EPs that received mixed to positive reviews.
On November 2, 2016, Too Many Zooz played one-time with Beyoncé at the CMA Awards in Nashville , Tennessee .
Discography
- F NOTE (EP, January 19, 2014)
- Fanimals EP (September 6, 2014)
- Brasshouse Volume 1: Survival of the Flyest (EP, November 21, 2014)
- F NOTE | Subway Gawdz (June 27, 2016)
- Subway Gawdz (June 27, 2016)
Web links
- Too Many Zooz's official website
- Too Many Zooz at Bandcamp
- BWW News Desk: Too Many Zooz Heads to the Fox Theater This August . June 23, 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- Mike Devlin: Too Many Zooz swap subway for the stage . January 21, 2015. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- Kat Bein: Kaskade Gets Tribal With Too Many Zooz on 'Jorts FTW' . July 14, 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Subway Gawdz, by TOO MANY ZOOZ . Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- ^ Lindsay Putnam: The hottest thing in NYC music is these subway buskers . April 18, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- ↑ Maggie James. Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Too Many Zooz - Subway Gawdz . In: Album of The Year .
- ↑ Subway Gawdz by Too Many Zooz. Retrieved May 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Brass House Trio Too Many Zooz on Backing Up Beyonce & Dixie Chicks for CMA Awards Showstopper .
- ↑ Album Review: Too Many Zoos, Fanimals EP - BandWagon Magazine (en-US) . In: BandWagon Magazine , October 21, 2014.
- ↑ Bandcamp. Retrieved September 3, 2017 .