The Rebirth Brass Band is a New Orleans brass band. The group was founded in 1983 by tuba/sousaphone player Philip Frazier, his brother, bass drummer Keith Frazier, and trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, along with other classmates and marching band members from Joseph S. Clark Senior High School in New Orleans’ Treme neighborhood.:112 The band released its first album in 1984 on Arhoolie Records which was recorded in a Treme neighborhood bar, and in 1989 gained wider notice with a series of releases on Rounder Records.