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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MIDTOWN MANHATTAN — The 46th annual Merry ...

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 ...