The Gold Coast Jazz Society is thrilled to launch its 2024-2025 Series with a lively, rootsy performance from the renowned New Orleans street band Tuba Skinny! Known for reviving early 20th-century ...

On Sunday, the Hot 8 Brass Band played the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for the first time without Bennie Pete, their longtime leader and tuba player. Pete was 45 when he died, in September, ...

Trombonist Barnabus Jones, 41, could have stepped into this 9th Ward backyard during another century, with his mutton-chop sideburns, fedora and style of horn playing. His bandmates in Tuba Skinny are ...

More info: Registration required at aspenmusicfestival.com; the event will also include the American Brass Quintet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Folklorico and remarks by Gov. Jared Polis Tuba Skinny found ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, in for Terry Gross. Today, we're going to remember tuba player Howard Johnson, who, through his own skill and determination, carved a place for tuba in ...

Renowned jazz musician Howard Johnson passed on Jan. 11 in New York City. He was 79. Johnson was an esteemed, founding member of the Saturday Night Live band, but his talents also extended onto the ...

CD Release Party - September 29, 2014 at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Reservations: 212-258-9595 The career of a jazz tuba player will, in all likelihood, be diverse. The great Bob Stewart has made a name ...

Peter Nissen's liner notes indicate that if you want to “find real New Orleans jazz all you've got to do is “go to Jackson Square, ask for 'Tuba Fats,' and he will help you. Well Nissen's right, but ...

Over my too many years of attending the Chicago Jazz Festival, I’ve been most excited by two types of sets. The fest sometimes gives us a rare (hopefully not last) chance to see a legendary elder of ...

Trumpeter Branden Lewis is one happy man – a man who is happy to be able to have a job that allows him to do the thing he loves most: play music. The Grammy-nominated Lewis will join his fellow ...

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... Remembering Jazz Tuba Player Howard Johnson DAVID BIANCULLI ...