Tuba Club restaurant with rooms in southern ... Wood panels remind of sea-worn boat hulls and cabins straight out of 1988 movie The Big Blue. Vintage postcards of Les Goudes, books about diving ...

and start similar tuba-centric traditions such as "Octubafest." "We played 'Silent Night' for five straight minutes with 835 tubas," announced Stephanie Brimhall, of the Kansas City Symphony.

And now, the tuba has gone from carrying the bass line in the back of the band, to stepping out front and leading dance trains. Host Michel Martin speaks with musician Jesse Tucker and Los Angeles ...

Standouts include grass mysteriously growing from a mouthpiece; a tuba with a blocked airway (mummified ... “we’ll be out sailing.” Judge allows lawsuit over Orlando teen’s suicide to ...

The tuba section is one of the smaller sections in the entire ensemble, but we stand out in the biggest way. Any mistake a tuba player makes is immediately obvious because of the size of the ...

From the 1930s, when traditional New Orleans music fell out of favor in jazz, the tuba had been relegated ... featured Mr. Mahal singing roisterous straight-ahead jazz on some tracks.