First, it's a relatively young instrument: The brass tuba was invented in the 1830s. And second, some folks think the only use of the tuba is to be loud. Phillips, Quade says, ...

I had never heard anyone play jazz tuba (or thought about it much, to be honest) until I saw Stefan Kac and the Pan-Metropolitan Trio perform a Late Night at the Dakota set in February 2006.

Everybody knows what a tuba is. As usual, everyone is wrong. There is no clear definition of the instrument, and there are more than a dozen that have been given the name. Wagner invented two of ...

Bill Barber, 87, a musician who helped refashion the jazz tuba from its predictable oompah passages to suit the complex melodies and rhythms of Miles Davis and other postwar jazz modernists, died ...