UK graduates kick-start career by playing horns on tour with David Byrne and St. Vincent

LEXINGTON, Ky. - One would think an industrious horn man who has traveled the country with the spacious indie-pop of the band Beirut, toured the world with the anthemic rock presentations of Arcade Fire and cracked the cosmos just a touch with a series of his own indie/avant jazz - adventures would have scaled the peaks of what popular music had to offer.