A lot of things make New Orleans a one-of-a-kind music town, but one is the tuba, the monstrous brass instrument worn like a python squeezing its victim. When jazz began there after WWI ...

tubas and sousaphones to play seasonal songs in both outdoor and indoor settings. “The original intent was to popularize the instrument,” Hovey notes. “Most people hadn’t heard the tuba at ...

Intra-I, the second album by tuba player and London jazz star Theon ... speak to that more clearly than I could express through notes. It was just about finding the right people.

Jeffrey Brown reports on musician Richard Antoine White’s unlikely journey from the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, to concert halls around the globe — thanks to his mastery of the tuba.

Tuba players are like unicorns (which literally ... Knox asks the candidates what they hope to get out of Curtis. He hands them sheet music they’ve never seen before. At one point, Krzywicki ...

You might not know Sam Pilafian by name, but you've probably heard his tuba. Whether it was on Pink ... He recently found old notes from some of Pilafian's masterclasses. "These are from a few ...

“Individual notes were hit in the center and ... at the Tanglewood Music Center for advanced music training in Lenox, Mass. His tuba playing impressed Leonard Bernstein, who was an adviser ...

So rich is Marsalis’s music, that often you forgot Foard was leading the tour. This is also a factor of the tuba’s relative confinement to a certain frequency range — the equivalent of a bus ...

White is the first African-American to receive a doctorate of music in tuba performance. He held the position of Principal Tubist with the New Mexico Symphony from 2004 until its demise in 2011.