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hello everyone. i've been wanting to expand my collection of music to listen to within the tuba family, and i thought i would post a string to find out this:

what tuba artist/ensemble CD's do you enjoy the most?

Dear Smurphius,
I rather like our new C.D."A Bonified Social Club"by John Reno and the
Half-Fast Creekers.A live performance featuring a King 3 valve E flat
tuba for lead and bass lines.Please inquire at John Reno.com
Thank you
The Fartman

Howard Johnson and Gravity...

Bonerama

Dirty Dozen Brass Band


ken k

The Virtuoso Tuba - Michael Lind

The Romantic Tuba - Floyd Cooley

Canadian Brass - Red, White and Brass. Triple brass quintet action (and then some) with NYPO and BSO players. Absolutely unreal tuba sound, all-around amazing brass playing...

1) Chicago/Reiner - Pines/Fountains on XRCD
2) Chicago/Reiner - Bartok, Concerto for Orch - XRCD
3) Gabrieli + Glorious Sounds of Brass - SACD
4) Canadian Brass + NYP, BSO - Red, White, and Brass - Track 1

wbryan6 wrote:Where would you look to order some of Howard Johnson's CD's?

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Pat Sheridan- Storyteller
Both Velvet Brown solo CD's

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The Best of Fletch

Surprised no mention yet of Gene Pokorny -- Tuba Tracks.

Tuba!: A Six Tuba Musical Romp
Gerhard Meinl's Tuba sextet - a who's who of tuba players including Warren Deck, Sam Pilifaian, and John Sass.
Classical to jazz, incredible playing

smurphius wrote:hello everyone. i've been wanting to expand my collection of music to listen to within the tuba family, and i thought i would post a string to find out this:

what tuba artist/ensemble CD's do you enjoy the most?

For the ability to entertain non-tuba players, my pick is the first Travelin' Light, by Sam Pilafian, on the Summit label.

For the ability to evoke awe on the part of tuba players who admire technique, then Pat Sheridan is your man.

For sheer power, I've never heard anything top Roger Bobo's Gravity is Light Today (or is it Bobissimo? The one with the Hindemith, but either will do).

For romantic beauty and supreme musicianship, Floyd Cooley and the Romantic Tuba is my favorite.

I love all of Tuba Tracks by Gene Pokorny, but his unaccompanied Bach is perhaps the best display of technique serving music I've ever heard. I'd take in in a minute over any of the technique whizzes, and it stands up to everything ever recorded for tuba. When I hear it, I know that I will never know Bach.

For his F tuba sound that is a departure from the dark, darker, darkest trend these days, and for its ebullient character and evocative story-telling, Hans Nickel's Cantuballada is still one of my favorites. The Gregson recording on that CD is the definitive recording, in my view, and he makes a strong, strong case for playing the RVW as published.

Rick "who thinks all of these are just a starting point for a committed student" Denney

Anything Roger Bobo or Michael Lind.

An excellent guide for Orchestral Recordings is
Orchestral Recordings for Low Brass Players by Gerald Sloan. The author surveyed almost 100 musicians for recommended recordings, tallied the results, and annotated each one with pretty specific details. I used the most frequently cited ones as a good start for my orchestral library and was not dissapointed at all. It's only disadvantage is that the results are about ten years old........so if you're out the Mr. Sloan come out with a second edition! It's available through encore music www.encoremupb.com
Good luck
George