His focused and driving mission to create something new in the arts world is revealed in expanding the language of modern jazz via the tuba. “Even for the hip, he has a lot to say and a lot to impart.

What is it? The Big Daddy of the brass section. Tubas are treated by a lot of people as funny, fusty, fuddy duddy old things. It could just be down to the sheer size and awkward body-entangling nature ...

Ralph Hepola’s Tuba carves out a place for the much-maligned horn in modern jazz. The virtuoso tuba player leads his quartet through a set of his freewheeling originals, playing with remarkable ...

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 ...

From the Balkans to the Untied States, the tuba is a must in any modern orchestra. In 2024, it will be in the spotlight in Germany. When Stefan Ambrosius from the Munich State Opera practices the tuba ...

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