Well, we think you should buy a tuba. Here’s why. Technically, this tuba is a sousaphone, a valved brass instrument with the same tube length and musical range as other tubas. A sousaphone is ...

But it’s hard to miss “the hardest-blowing man” in the New Orleans-style brass band. He’s the one playing the sousaphone. Or is it the tuba? “That’s the most common question I get.

LDB brandishes a powerful brass frontline of trumpets, trombones, saxophones, with a funky backline of drums and sousaphone. Combining the poetic ferocity of Billa Camp with stellar vocal harmonies, ...

A classically trained soprano, O’Brien picked up the sousaphone just two years ago and now finds joy in leading a band where mistakes and imperfection are accepted. Sass-A-Brass recruits ...

Kerry “Fatman” Hunter, who played bass drum in Preservation Brass, and sousaphone player Julius McKee tossed the idea to trumpeter and cornetist Kevin Louis, and he bought in. Louis had the ...

Over the decades, these low brass love fests spread to cities across ... more curvaceous marching band version known as the sousaphone. “Some of them actually have double bells, and we've ...

Inspired by the soulful sounds of New Orleans, the Brass Queens’ band consists of one sousaphone, drums (both line and set), two trombones, one alto sax, one tenor sax, three trumpets and a whole lot ...

On a recent Friday in June, the sounds of the sousaphone, trumpet, trombone, saxophone and drums reverberated through a streetcar rolling through Kansas City’s River Market. Members of the Sass ...