The Dirty Dozen Brass Band has announced the release of a new album, titled Twenty Dozen, coming out May 1 on their new label home Savoy Jazz. The album, which celebrates the group’s 35th anniversary, features 11 new originals produced by Scott Billington at The Music Shed in New Orleans, LA. With several incarnations throughout the years, the band now consists of Gregory Davis (trumpet, vocals), Roger Lewis (baritone, soprano sax), Kevin Harris (tenor saxophone), Efrem Towns (trumpet, flugelhorn), Kirk Joseph (sousaphone), Terence Higgins (drums) and Kyle Roussel (keyboard). Former member Jake Eckert (guitar) is also featured on the new album. See below for the full tracklisting.

“It’s a big old musical gumbo, and that probably made the difference, separating us from other brass bands out of New Orleans,” says Lewis. “It put a different twist on the music. We were not trying to change anything, we were just playing the music we wanted to play and not stay in one particular bag.”

In addition to the new album, the band will embark on a series of tour dates including a three night BAM residency in Brooklyn, NY with Dr. John and a series of shows in their native New Orleans celebrating the album release/35th Anniversary. The full list of dates can be found after the jump.

Twenty Dozen track listing:

1) Tomorrow
2) Jook
3) Best Of All
4) Git Up
5) Don’t Stop The Music
6) We Gon’ Roll
7) Trippin’ Inside A Bubble
8) Paul Barbarin’s Second Line
9) E-Flat Blues
10) When The Saints Go Marching In
11) Dirty Old Man

Dirty Dozen Brass Band Tour Dates
3/31 Ft. Lauderdale—New Times Beerfest
4/4 New Orleans, LA—Wednesdays at LaFayette Square
4/6 Shreveport, LA—Fatty Arbuckle’s
4/12 Brooklyn, NY—BAM Residency w/ Dr. John
4/13 Brooklyn, NY—BAM Residency w/ Dr. John
4/14 Brooklyn, NY—BAM Residency w/ Dr. John
4/20 Little Rock, AR—Sticky Fingerz
4/21 Vicksburg, MS—Vicksburg Riverfest
4/26 New Orleans, LA—Tipitina’s
4/28 New Orleans, LA—The Temple – 35th Anniversary Reunion Concert
4/29 New Orleans, LA—House of Blues
4/30 New Orleans, LA—Tipitina’s Instruments A Comin’ Benefit
5/3 New Orleans, LA—New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – Main Stage
5/4 New Orleans, LA—d.b.a.
5/17 Gulf Shores, AL—Hangout Music Festival
5/24 Kansas City, MO—Crossroads
5/26 Cedar Rapdis, IA—Legion Arts CSPS Hall
5/27 Chillicothe, IL—Summer Camp 2012
6/1 Fall River, MA—The Narrows Center for the Arts
6/2 Augusta, NJ—Crawfish Festival
6/10 Vienna, VA—Louisiana Swamp Romp – Wolf Trap
7/29 Niigata, Japan—Fuji Rock Festival
8/11 Goshen, CT—Litchfield Jazz Fest
8/17 Bethlehem, PA—Levitt Pavilion
8/19 Salem, MA—Salem Jazz & Soul Fest