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How would you describe most tuba solo records in a single sentence? Here is my attempt:

Mostly fantastic players performing kinda crappy obscure tuba literature or the same old six warhorses in inappropriate acoustics with expensive tubas to misplaced microphones for labels I never heard of and sold to university tuba students who are trying to learn one of the selections for a masterclass or recital.

Music that 99.999% of the world's population does not listen to.

Music for a very limited but mostly appreciative audience.

Like almost all solo recordings: often entertaining, amazing, brilliantly executed, and inspiring for a time, but ultimately boring.

As the kids would say, "What's a record?"

I would totally agree, if it weren't for two recordings:
Sam Pilafian's "Travelin' Light; and
Pat Sheridan's "Bon-Bons"

Guaranteed to make you either smile or faint, depending on your level of appreciation...