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Press San Francisco Art Magazine December, 2001   The aptly named Fog City Brass is a delightful quintet with a pleasingly mellow sound in the midst of tinkling, treble happy plinking of Holiday performances. While I love the bells, triangles and dulcimer as much as the next person raised on the season's sound, my ear was caught by the warm sound of this quintet's French horn, trombone, two trumpets, and a tuba. In addition to traditional and obscure holiday pieces performed for the season, their large repertoire includes arrangements of pieces by Bach, Debussy and Scott Joplin as well as original material by Walter Ross, Leonard Bernstein and Victor Ewald. I found their three song demo compelling and I wished they had burned more tracks. Their live performance makes you want to bundle up, grab a hot chocolate and listen. This newly formed group is testing the waters this winter and has yet to release a CD, but they will be making a more extensive demo that will be available during their live shows. Make it a point to catch this one if you're out holiday shopping.