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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...