About Rob Maccabee
When Rob isn’t cooking something delicious, playing with his kids, or working with entrepreneurs to expand their business, he’s making music.
He’s combing through memories and senses to brew up songs that live in the enchanted territory where words and melody
meet the gut. His charm and affability ride shotgun with tunes that rollercoaster between utter vulnerability and belly laughs.
Rob has followed a twisty back road to songwriter. He has been a horn player and leader of funk-jazz outfit, New Basics Brass Band, for more than 24 years. His work with NBBB has resulted in 3 studio albums and performances such as
SXSW in Austin and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. In winter of 2009 Rob started flirting with a guitar a friend left behind. Songs began rolling out and he haven’t stopped since.
Rob is member of the Columbus Songwriters Association and has performed on numerous showcases and song circles. He leads a monthly songwriting group called, The Fertilizers, hosts a monthly showcase called, Troubadour Tuesdays, and has facilitated songwriting workshops at The Ohio State University.
In September 2016, Rob released his first solo album of original singer-songwriter material called, Marvelous Machine.
Rob Maccabee is a master of brass, with hard earned chops he’s honed over the years playing all manner of horns in his new basics brass band. After becoming a regular on gigs with the full band we figured it’d be good to bring rob in to the studio with Biddy and Kevin to put together horn sections. He made us look like a couple of geniuses, he brought an ear and a level of professionalism that was critical for dialing in the perfect parts on the fly. But rob is more than a titan of trumpet, he’s also a great songwriter with a solid record of his own under his belt. One late night at the dude locker rob came through when we were first working out ring of love. As we recall he came through around 3 am with White Castle for all. Most notably when we were working on the second verse, we were working out a line “loud as a drunk on the Fourth of July” that’s when rob chimed in and pointed out, man in my neighborhood it’s the day before the Fourth of July that shit gets rowdy. Thus was conceived one of our favorite lines of the record “loud as a drunk on the day before the Fourth of July”. We have a feeling there will be plenty more collaborations to come. Very Grateful for his mighty brass and wordsmithery 
