Grammy-nominated brass performance, recording, arranging and production. Layered live horns for records, film and stage - from New York to the world.
Danny Flam is a brass musician and audio engineer with 30+ years on trumpet, trombone, french horn and baritone. A former member of the Israel Philharmonic, he built a parallel life in the studio - layering eight to ten brass parts into rich, choir-like sections that have appeared on hip-hop, pop, film and a defining era of contemporary world music.
Seven Grammy winning contributions and/or nominations, working with artists and producers from Kanye West and JAY-Z to Elton John, Rick Ross, Ken Lewis and Just Blaze - alongside the leading voices of the Jewish music world.
The section reaches well past the American mainstream: Sephardic and Ladino songs with Sarah Aroeste, Austrian folk-rock with Andreas Gabalier, Nordic pop and soul with Finland's Niila and Iceland's Vignir Snær Vigfússon, and the klezmer and Middle Eastern lines running through Israeli music. Every one of those traditions has its own phrasing, ornaments and attack - and gets played that way.
Multi-tracked brass sections recorded and produced in-house - trumpet, trombone, french horn and low brass, mixed and delivered ready for your record.
Custom brass writing across pop, the modern Jewish sound and world styles - klezmer, Ladino, Latin, Balkan and Middle Eastern - from fanfares, pads and stabs to full-section charts built for your track.
Book a world-class brass section for your event, tour or session - matched to the energy of the artist and the room.
Live brass, in the studio and on stage - straight from the New York Brass archives.
Two decades of road tales and studio moments - recovered from the New York Brass blog. A taste below; the full archive can come back online.
The session behind Kanye West's landmark album - and how the horns found their way onto the record.
The year New York Brass' work appeared on four of Kanye West's Grammy nominations.
Prepping the trombone solo on a rare 1960s Conn 20H for the Magna Carta Holy Grail cut.
Behind the scenes with the producer on a run of chart-topping hip-hop and R&B.
When a NASA image and a horn section collided - one of the blog's odder, greater detours.
Video-game music, chiptune covers and a full brass big band taking the stage in Brooklyn.