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 ...

A flock of low brass players are returning to Rockefeller Center this weekend for a time-honored Christmas tradition. On Dec. 12, nearly 400 tenor and bass tuba players will lead a holiday sing-along ...

The tuba is one of the most powerful and prominent instruments in the symphony orchestra. Tubaist Ralph Hepola has played on outstanding classical recordings (see selected discography below), but this ...

The tuba is a funny instrument. Its sound is like a gaseous rumbling from deep within the earth—or our bellies. Hardly fleet of foot—it’s heavy, often pushing 30 pounds, and awkward—it’s seldom given ...

Intra-I, the second album by tuba player and London jazz star Theon Cross is many things — a deeply personal exploration of self, a remarkable achievement in the possibility of sound, and also the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Theon Cross can still vividly remember when the instrument that’s taken him around the world was more of a liability than an asset. “Playing the tuba didn’t make me cool when I was at school,” the ...