Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy has been played on NTS shows including The Early Bird Show w/ PAM, with I Only Have Eyes For You first played on 10 October 2024.

In 1984 Lester Bowie formed Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, a brass nonet in which Bowie demonstrated jazz's links to other forms of popular music, a decidedly more populist approach than that of the Art Ensemble. With this group he recorded songs popularized by Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Manson, and the Spice Girls.