For The Tennessean's final Student of the Week poll for the 2023-2024 school year, we asked principals, teachers and guidance counselors to nominate their most deserving band student. They didn't ...

Howard Johnson is universally known as the finest proponent of the jazz tuba in the world, as well as being quite proficient on the baritone saxophone. He also plays flugelhorn, bass clarinet, cornet, ...

Rudy Guidry has had a love affair with music since the third grade. It started with the marimba, then he found the recorder. The clarinet came next, followed by the baritone sax. By his sophomore year ...

Malaby has merged his two trios — with a cello and a tuba — into a quartet called Tubacello. Their new album is Scorpion Eater. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says he hopes to hear from them again. This ...

Waltz No 2 features performances by multiple musicians: - Saxophone 1: Josh Flores - Saxophone 2: Peyton Womock - Trumpet: Joro Levy - Violinist: Estiek02 - Tuba: Griffin Andrew Collins About Andy ...

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.

He helped to find a new role for a notoriously cumbersome instrument in a wide range of musical settings, including the “Saturday Night Live” band. By Giovanni Russonello Howard Johnson, who set a new ...

ROCHESTER — While some turn swords into plowshares, Chris G. Wessel is turning his saxophone into a battle sax. The instrument looks like it might be the requisite heavy metal for a leather-clad and ...