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Saw this on the Facebook.

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Pretty cool I think. Once again rejoining the world of brass quintets.

Congrats to Andrew Hitz as well. Gets to settle down with his family and much more to come from him in the future.

Hope they make some recordings while he is a member!

This is really awesome! It will be a real treat to get to hear Sam with such a great quintet. I was thinking how cool it is that Sam is replacing his former student, Andrew (I'm fairly sure that Andrew studied with Sam at ASU). Then I realized that Sam was also the teacher of some of the other former Boston Brass tuba players. My recollection of the chronological order of Boston Brass tuba players is: Velvet Brown, Andy King, Randy Montgomery and then Andrew Hitz (someone please correct me if this is wrong). I think Velvet Brown and Andy King both studied with Sam at BU.

I was after Randy
(Also a BU Pilafian student)

I think Sam is one of the most under rated tuba players. His work with Empire Brass was superb and Traveling Light was excellent - I would speculate that Traveling Light XMAS album has got to be the most widely bought tuba recordings by the mainstream public . I still think his ITEC 95 session on jazz improvisation is one of the best clinics/masterclasses I've ever attended. I look forward to hearing his work with The Boston Brass. Superb player and teacher.

Does this means he's leaving Frost? I hope not.

He is still going to be full time at the U.