In early 2014, a handful of YouTube videos surfaced featuring a particularly unusual-looking outfit busking in New York City’s Union Square subway station. Some of the videos featured the group playing as a two-piece, others as a trio, but they all featured one standout element: a towering, pompadoured string bean of a man playing baritone sax, dancing like his body had been possessed by an otherworldly spirit. As it turns out, the group in question is Too Many Zooz, a self-defined “brass-house” outfit featuring Manhattan School of Music grads Leo Pellegrino (that’s the flamboyant sax man) and trumpet player Matt “Doe” Muirhead, along with drummer David “King of Sludge” Parks. Since forming, Zooz have racked up millions of ganders on YouTube — one clip has 7.4 million views, while two others have 3 million apiece — not to mention backing Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks during their famed performance at the 50th annual CMA Awards in Nashville back in 2016 (they also contributed horns on a track from Beyoncé’s Lemonade). This week, Too Many Zooz’ tour will bring them to Exit/In, where they’ll deliver their lively amalgam of jazz, ska, funk and EDM — and no doubt plenty of fancy footwork courtesy of Pellegrino. Brooklyn’s self-described “hi-fi beat peddler” Birocratic will open. 9 p.m. at Exit/In, 2208 Elliston Place D. PATRICK RODGERS
Too Many Zooz
