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Lucky Chops Tickets
We are excited to announce the Saturday night performance of Weekend of Jazz 2026: LUCKY CHOPS!
Lucky Chops is big, brassy, and unapologetically bold. The six piece band has united audiences in more than 30 countries and counting with their infectious energy, hard driving grooves and potent singable melodies. The irresistible groove that is Lucky Chops is led by co-founder Josh Holcomb’s soulful trombone, Daro Behroozi’s soaring sax and Joshua Gawel’s powerful trumpet. Born in the streets of New York City’s multicultural melting pot the band pays homage to America’s New Orleans brass band tradition while fusing their sound with eclectic rock, Caribbean, Arabic, Eastern European, funk, jazz, ska, gospel, and EDM.
“Our strength is having individual members who get to express themselves as part of a whole that is more than the sum of its parts,” says Behroozi, a Brooklyn native whose polyglot Iranian/Dutch/French/German background has led to his interest in everything from Middle Eastern sounds to the tradition of the Balkan brass bands.
After honing their performance skills in the NYC subway system as part of the Music Under New York program, Lucky Chops’ new self-titled effort represents their first full-length album of all original material, produced by Grammy winning mixer/engineer Nic Hard [Snarky Puppy] at Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s Mission Sound.
“We spent more than a year working on the songs with our producer in the studio” recalls Holcomb, who co-founded the group in 2006 at the famed Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music & Art with original Sousaphone player Raphael Buyo and Behroozi . “We really pushed our creative boundaries on this album. Coming from organic jazz backgrounds, we weren’t really used to doing so much post-production work. We’re excited to continue to explore this budding frontier for instrumental horn based music.”
With individual and group contributions from Holcomb, Behroozi, Gawel and Buyo their new studio album, Lucky Chops (Self-titled), is a musical travelogue that spans the veritable globe of their range. From the world-dance pop energy of the albums lead single “Full Heart Fancy” (featuring the groovy addition of guest percussionist Nate Werth of Snarky Puppy and Ghost-Note), the driving New York beat in “Halfway to the Hudson” to the Daft Punk-esque sounds of “Memories”, the lilting New Orleans funk of “The Dancing Babies,” the classic sounds of Chicago in “Familiar Places,” and the sheer exhilaration of “Pizza Day,” with its guitar solo from Vulpeck’s Cory Wong.
“Our goal is to share the joy that music brings us with others,” says Daro. “We put all of ourselves into this music. We’ve given everything we have no matter the situation.”
Come watch them on February 28nd 2026! 8pm
All Reserved Seats, Ticket Prices:
Adults: $35 + convenience fee
Students (K-12), Seniors (65+): $30 + convenience fee
*ID may be requested for discounted tickets
*No Refunds
More ticket info:
Tickets can either be printed or kept on your device, they will be scanned entering the school and ushers will be available to help locate seats.
Lobby doors will open at 7pm and auditorium doors will open as soon as sound check is completed.
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