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Hi tuba guys and gals,

Here is a link to my latest tubadylan video.

https://youtu.be/WyIKeDTVjLE

If you leave a comment, you will be entered to win this incredibly blue puffer-fish playing tuba shower-curtain. You won’t want to miss it!



See you later.

Dylan

I really do want to give away this shower curtain. I bought it to replace the Spider-Man shower curtain in my son’s room, but as soon as my wife saw it, she politely informed me that I could not display it in our house. This video giveaway is her suggestion. I’ll even pay the shipping...

Please comment on the video. Have a great day.

Dylan

OK, I'll bite.......

But I don't want the shower curtain - you can just hide it from your wife

I don't listen to a whole lotta 'tuba centric' music, but my overall fav 'tuba album' is probably the Meinl-Weston Sextet album. Not as crazy about the 'solo' tuba stuff, not even the Bobo recordings. But that's just me

toobagrowl wrote:I don't listen to a whole lotta 'tuba centric' music, but my overall fav 'tuba album' is probably the Meinl-Weston Sextet album.

You stole my answer!

As much as I love the tuba, I don’t often listen to tuba music for casual listening either. Sometimes, when I’m really in the mood, I listen to it at night.

I don’t think I’ve ever listened to tuba music in the car, despite having Apple Music for the last few years and having access to everything.

Has anyone actively listened to tuba recordings while driving or exercising? I wonder.

Right.

I end up listening to lots of instrumental music (orchestral, bands, any other ensembles...) and then just zero in my ears on the tuba.

I'm much more interested in hearing good "real" tuba playing in action than I am hearing solos full of low farts, high squealing, and multi phonics.

bort wrote:I end up listening to lots of instrumental music (orchestral, bands, any other ensembles...) and then just zero in my ears on the tuba.

Yeah, I do the same thing -- zero in on tuba in ensembles. Love the sound of a well-played tuba with a great sound in the context of an ensemble of some type -- quintet, wind band, orchestra, etc.
That's what made me pick the tuba -- the way it sounds in an ensemble setting.

bort wrote: I'm much more interested in hearing good "real" tuba playing in action than I am hearing solos full of low farts, high squealing, and multi phonics.

......not to mention cheesy/heavy vibrato, and an overgrown euphonium-like sound on some F tuba album. It is really "aural oatmeal" for the ears

The winner has been chosen...

https://youtu.be/tmJSPOJ_jsg

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I confess. After really thinking about it, I’ve exercised to Tricky Licks by Jim Self, and played a few tracks from Travelin’ Light at my wedding, almost eleven years ago.

I would have to say that, when bringing up jazz tubists, I have to go with Ray Draper's 'A Tuba Jazz'. Some people I've talked to criticize his tone, but I think his inflections and style match it perfectly.