When the book “The Perfect Tuba” landed on my desk, I thought, “I’ll have to ask Robert Carpenter about this.” Every Central Florida music fan knows he’s the go-to guy for all things tuba. Turns out ...

On the first TubaChristmas, around 300 musicians showed up at the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, bearing their giant brass instruments. A massive, all-tuba holiday concert was ...

In the 1960s and '70s, Johnson, who died Jan. 11, played on recordings by Charles Mingus, McCoy Tyner and Carla Bley. He also led his own ensembles, including Gravity. Originally broadcast in 1984.

YOUTUBE STARTING IN THE YEAR 2029. ALL NEW AT NOON, THE CREW OF MORPHEUS ANNOUNCING THAT KENT BROUSSARD, AKA TIGER TWO. BUT KENT WILL BE THE GRAND MARSHAL OF THIS YEAR’S PARADE. KENT MADE HEADLINES ...

With afternoon sunlight slanting into their eyes 51 tuba players filled Valparaiso University’s Chapel of the Resurrection with Christmas cheer Sunday. The chapel was nearly full — of people, and deep ...

For some years now, the tuba has been going through a metamorphosis. Call it, as I do, a Tuba Civil Rights Movement. People long associated the instrument with polkas, elephants, clowns, and players ...

Bill Barber, 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 of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 17—AUSTINBURG — Almost two dozen like-minded people gathered Saturday to celebrate Christmas through the tuba. TubaChristmas ...

This is an opinion tribute cartoon. When the Saints Go Marching In, Charles E. Hall will be there ‘holding down the low end’ on tuba. For one, there will be the thrill of performing before a large ...

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Tuba ChristmasThere are few better ways to let the neighborhood know the holiday season is here than to sound off with 200 tubas. Merry Tuba Christmas will resonate at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Alex ...