Filmed in 4K at the Lecco Jazz Festival 2025, on the shores of Lake Como, this full concert captures Funk Off, the Italian brass band that has become a European marching-band institution. Founded in Tuscany, the group fields an armada of horns and percussion that parades and plays standing, with no electric rhythm section: everything rests on the power of the sousaphones, the precision of the trumpets and saxophones, and the theatricality of a mobile stage act. The repertoire fuses James Brown-rooted funk groove, soul, jazz and Latin colors in arrangements built for the street as much as the stage. This multi-song filmed live performance conveys the physical energy of an ensemble that turns every number into a festive procession. An ideal live concert to discover the richness of the contemporary brass-band scene, this Funk Off set at the Lecco Jazz Festival shows how funk can remain a marching music, infectious and virtuosic, between collective discipline and sheer joy of playing.
Personnel & credits
- Dario Cecchini — conductor
