Alex Asher

Alex Asher is a trombonist, improvisor and
composer living in Brooklyn, NY.  He is the
bandleader and primary songwriter for polyrhythmic, indie-soul band People’s
Champs, which has performed at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, The MoMA, The
Guggenheim and toured throughout the USA. He also leads Los Cumpleaños, an
experimental collaboration between musicians from Colombia, Argentina and the
USA. Alex co-leads The Superpower Horns, studio horn
section for Beyoncé Knowles and touring horn section for Boy George & Culture
Club, amongst others. The group wrote and arranged the horn lines on
Grammy-award winning songs from Beyoncé’s 2011 album ’4′.

Alex was a U.S. Department of State-sponsored
OneBeat Fellow in 2014, where he collaborated with 24 other emerging musical
leaders from around the world to create original work and develop a global
network of civically engaged music initiatives. Alex performs with many groups including M.A.K.U.
Soundsystem (Experimental Afro-Colombian), Porfi Baloa y Sus Adolocentes
(Salsa), Slavic Soul Party! (Jazz/Balkan), Super Mambo (Latin), Super Hi Fi
(Dub/Jazz), Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra (Indie Latin), John Brown’s Body
(Reggae), The Superpowers (Afrobeat/Jazz) and many others. He’s performed at
traditional Irish jam sessions throughout Ireland, jammed with Roma brass
musicians in rural Serbia and marched at Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
& Barranquilla, Colombia.