Brian Culbertson to Release “The Trilogy Tour: Live from Detroit” (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray & 2-Disc CD) on April 11th, 2025 | WATCH NEW VIDEO!

Multi-instrumental entertainer Brian Culbertson takes viewers on a captivating journey via “The Trilogy Tour: Live from Detroit,” a 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray and two-disc CD dropping on April 11.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (4 APRIL 2025): There are very few touring jazz artists capable of putting on the kind of elaborate, visually stunning, and wildly entertaining concert productions that Brian Culbertson creates. The multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer who has crafted forty Billboard No. 1 hits spent two years writing and recording music with the help of the fans who tuned in to his weekly online series, The Hang, which resulted in the creation of thirty new songs spread out over three new albums to form The Trilogy. After each of the three themed albums were released, Culbertson mounted The Trilogy Tour, a 70-show U.S. concert trek that was filmed and will be released as “The Trilogy Tour: Live from Detroit” in 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on April 11 from BCM Entertainment.

The Trilogy Tour featured songs from the three albums, “The Trilogy: Red,” “The Trilogy: Blue,” and “The Trilogy: White,” along with some of Culbertson’s chart-topping hits and fan favorites. The concert itself, as seen in the film directed by Robert Hubbard, is an artfully staged and meticulously choreographed production illumined by state-of-the-art lighting design and visual effects that transform the show into a sensory experience. Always a high-voltage entertainer, Culbertson and his super tight seven-piece band bring the seventeen-song setlist to life with vibrant melodies and lush harmonies, funky rhythms and grooves, and extended solos. All the magic from the final tour stop at Detroit’s MotorCity Casino fills the screen, taking viewers on a journey through “The Trilogy.”

“The Trilogy Tour: Live from Detroit” will be launched at two premiere events. This Sunday (April 6), the film will premiere at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts presented by The Boscov’s Theater during the Berks Jazz Fest in Reading, Pennsylvania. The movie will then premiere during a livestream event on VEEPS on April 10 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/5pm PT.

The idea to shoot his third concert film came to Culbertson during The Trilogy Tour rehearsals and after the first few shows.

“I knew the visual was going to be something special. I try to make every tour special of course, but sometimes certain things and the music push a particular tour into another space that makes it more obvious to film. It needs to be different than a regular ‘the hits concert,’ which is just a random set of songs. This show has more of an arc and story to it,” said Culbertson, about the project that will also be available as a two-disc CD.

The Trilogy Tour launched in March 2023 in Providence, Rhode Island and concluded in Detroit in March 2024. A consummate performer who constantly raises the bar, Culbertson never stopped fine-tuning the show, which is why the last concert stop was the one preserved on film.

“I wanted to capture the last show because I used all the other shows coming up to it to continue rehearsing and making tweaks, either musical or lighting wise. I will always take as much time as possible to finish a project based on a deadline, and that final show gave me a hard deadline,” laughs Culbertson whose previous concert video releases are “Colors of Love Tour: Live in Las Vegas” (2019) and “Live from the Inside” (2009).

With Culbertson playing keyboards and trombone, he was accompanied on The Trilogy Tour by Darnell “Showcase” Taylor (guitar), Eddie Miller (keyboards and vocals), Chris Miskel (drums and musical director), Rishon Odel (bass), Michael “Patches” Stewart (trumpet and flugelhorn), Ronnie Gutierrez (percussion), and Walter English III (keyboards and vocals).

After recording his 1994 chart-topping debut album, “Long Night Out,” in his college dorm, Culbertson became a consistent Billboard hitmaker. His now 28-album catalogue boasts a variety of recordings consisting of contemporary jazz, funk, acoustic jazz, and new age projects. His next studio album, “Day Trip,” which he describes as having “more of a jazz fusion edge,” is expected in late September. The ten-song set that he wrote with Nicholas Cole in seven days features Branford Marsalis, Randy Brecker, Marcus Miller, Sheila E., Mike Stern, Kirk Whalum, Paul Jackson Jr., and Eric Marienthal along with a rhythm section formed by bassist Nathan East and drummers Lil’ John Roberts and Lenny Castro.

Culbertson wasn’t planning to make an album when the songs that comprise The Trilogy were composed and recorded.

“I was writing new music while livestreaming on ‘The Hang,’ getting real-time feedback from fans via the chat. Before I knew it, I had thirty new songs that fit three distinctive emotional categories. The ‘Red’ album is very sexy and romantic. ‘Blue’ is melancholy, and the music lifts you up when life gets hard. The songs on ‘White” are uplifting and hopeful,” explained Culbertson about the albums released between October 2021 and May 2022.

Culbertson’s creative vision for The Trilogy Tour was for the show to be an immersive sensory experience of sound and light. His vision is vividly realized on “The Trilogy Tour: Live from Detroit.”

“The phrase that everyone kept saying to me was ‘that was an experience.’ From the band at rehearsals, to the fans at the first several shows and beyond, that phrase was repeated over and over. The Trilogy Tour is not just a regular show. It truly is an experience, both musically and visually, that takes the audience on a journey. I’m glad that the film will enable people to experience that journey whenever they want to.”

The songs performed during “The Trilogy Tour: Live from Detroit” are:

“Prelude”
“Stars”
“Summer Hideaway”
“The Hangout”
“Sandcastles”
“Time Flies”
“Feel The Love”
“Let’s Go”
“Always Remember”
“Eyes Closed”
“Dance With Me Tonight”
“A Love Lost”
“You Are My Everything”
“Colors Of Love”
“Funkin’ Like My Father”
“Play That Funky Music”
“On My Mind”
“Stars (reprise)”

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