Umbria Jazz Winter: Funk Off Rocks Orvieto

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In late December, icy lips blow into trumpet mouthpieces while chilled fingers grip drumsticks, fly up and down the keys on many a sax and clang cymbals as musicians in jeans, navy blue hooded sweatshirts and red tennis shoes leap and dance down the medieval Orvieto backstreets. The Florentine marching brass band, Funk Off, never…