Hypnotic Brass

Studio 360

There are plenty of places you’d expect to find a brass band: on a football field, in a parade, backing Prince at the Superbowl. But on a subway platform? Sarah Lilley listened in on a band of brothers from Chicago who stop commuters in their tracks.

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