Albums Still Matter

In 2015, music legend Prince walked on to the stage of the GRAMMY awards show to announce the winner of “Album of the Year.” To a standing and roaring crowd, Prince simply said these words:

“Albums … remember those? Albums … still matter. Like books and black lives, albums still matter.
Tonight and always.”

I remember watching that in real-time and thinking those words embody the end result of any musician who has put together a musical recording project. A musical artist spends much time in a recording studio perfecting and tailoring their craft to be something of worth for a listening audience. After the project is complete, that musician may spend even more time promoting the album, sometimes only to start (or fund) next project. What can tend to happen is that the album gets lost in the plethora of other releases. Some may do a recording project for promotion or tenure; others may simply have something they want to say in their own musical voice.

Regardless of the reason, that album, that recording … still matters.

For this reason, we have created The Brass Albums Database

This ongoing brass resource may seem like a mammoth of a project, but in the end, if you find one “new” recording, the BaDatabase has done its job. In addition, the visitor may see that a significant recording is missing from the database. That is where you come in…

Visitors can submit any brass album (this means a brass instrument is the primary instrument on the recording) as long as the following criteria is received:

Name of Primary Artist
Album Title
Record Label
Album Release Year
Personnel on Album
Track List
URL link to purchase the album (Amazon, Bandcamp, Personal Website, etc.)
Image File – MINIMUM size of 250×250 (.jpg or .png format)

Here is an example of what the post will look like once approved.

While this database will focus on brass instruments, there is one exception to this criteria. Albums that have a brass composition, such as a concerto, listed as part of the album may be included in the database. See this example.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.