Rex Brown is currently celebrating the legacy he helped build, playing bass and revisiting the music of Pantera on the band current tour dates. But did you know that the bass wasn't his first ...
Sousaphones, typically relegated to the remote reaches of the band room and back areas of the stage, marched into the limelight at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on Saturday afternoon, hijacking center ...
Musicians playing in New Orleans-style brass bands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were very important in the development of jazz. Their bands traditionally featured trumpets, trombones, ...
The sound of Christmas in Victoria began Saturday with the rumble of bass in Market Square. More than 100 musicians playing tubas and euphoniums marked the 40th anniversary of Tuba Christmas. “I just ...
Brigham Young University’s annual OcTUBAfest will take place Wednesday through Saturday, Oct. 21-24, in the Madsen Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. with unique nightly performances. All concerts are free.
The present “Method for Bass and Contrabass Tuba” provides daily exercises for the pupil which are conceived for a progressive and gradual advancement in the academic course of study of the tuba at ...
Geoff brought a bass tuba to BBC Guernsey's Outside Broadcast at the Guernsey Museum. He writes: "This instrument was in the German infantry band 'Pioneer Battalion 15' which marched into Guernsey in ...
When she joined the Boston Pops in 1955, she was believed to be the first woman to play tuba in a major American orchestra. By Julia Carmel A lot of people had one question for Constance Weldon, she ...