Late greats of the tuba

Stephen Shoop · Post by **Stephen Shoop** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:25 pm

Harvey Phillips speaks very highly of Johnny Evans-- fellow tuba player in the Barnum and Bailey Circus Band.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:30 pm

Student of Bill Bell, and my teacher, Irving H. Cohen.

Trust me, if Irv could teach me, then he could teach anybody. And it may not mean much to anyone else, but I sure miss him.

eupher61 · Post by **eupher61** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:47 pm

you beat me to it...Singleton Palmer, what a helluva player. Incredibly nice man too, a great friend for a brief period.

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:51 pm

He may not be known to that many people, but a "late great" to me is Dr. John Hubbard. He passed about a year and a half ago, and he has left a huge impact on me. He also had the distinction of being a good friend of Ed Kleinhammer, as well as an acquaintance of Arnold Jacobs. As Dr. Hubbard put it, "I am the only person who did not get a lesson from Jake in the time that I knew him!" He was a great bass trombonist, but his real-life job was as a neurosurgeon. As his friend Dr. Griffith told it, him and Dr. Hubbard got drunk one night in college and decided to become brain surgeons! Before that, he was a music major, playing trombone and piano. One of the lasting lessons I got from him was in my first lesson, where he said, "Without a doubt, the hardest song you'll ever have to play is 'O Isis and Osiris.'" And, he was right! In his last couple of months, he started to get rid of a bunch of the stuff that he had accumulated over the years, including a wall of records, six full file-cabinets of music, and a mountain of CD's. He gave me an old Conn tuba he had, a 4J, which I plan to hold on to for a long, long time. All in all, he was one of the biggest influences on me, and I hold him in high regard along with all of the others who have come before.

Tubanese · Post by **Tubanese** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:44 am

Please don't forget:

Mike Roylance
Sam Pilafian
Pat Sheridan
Gary Ofenloch
Toby Hanks(Great teacher!)
Ken Amis
etc....

jeopardymaster · Post by **jeopardymaster** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:29 pm

The list isn't complete without Sam Green and Phil Catelinet.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:22 pm

Tubanese wrote:Please don't forget:

Mike Roylance
Sam Pilafian
Pat Sheridan
Gary Ofenloch
Toby Hanks(Great teacher!)
Ken Amis
etc....

How many of them are "late?"

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:42 pm

iiipopes wrote:
Tubanese wrote:Please don't forget:
Mike Roylance
Sam Pilafian
Pat Sheridan
Gary Ofenloch
Toby Hanks(Great teacher!)
Ken Amis
etc....
How many of them are "late?"

Some of these folks aren't "late." In fact, they're running way ahead of me.

NickJones · Post by **NickJones** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 3:24 pm

Stuart Roebuck - Halle Orchestra , Manchester UK

Tubanese · Post by **Tubanese** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:10 pm

TubaRay wrote:
iiipopes wrote:
Tubanese wrote:Please don't forget:
Mike Roylance
Sam Pilafian
Pat Sheridan
Gary Ofenloch
Toby Hanks(Great teacher!)
Ken Amis
etc....
How many of them are "late?"
Some of these folks aren't "late." In fact, they're running way ahead of me.

Oops

I better study more English

Teubonium · Post by **Teubonium** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:02 pm

Since we're adding living people to the list of "late and greats" ,

don't forget Chester (Schmitz).

Richard Perry · Post by **Richard Perry** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:27 am

Just found this...three to add:

Allan Jaffe, who ran Preservation Hall for so many years.

Rich Matteson. Any recording of him playing tuba is worth finding.

Bill Barber.

geomiklas · Post by **geomiklas** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:56 am

Although not "late", but certainly a "great" is John R. Turk, formerly taught at Youngstown State University, and performed in the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra.

George

Paul Scott · Post by **Paul Scott** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:38 pm

I'd like to add Fred Pfaff who did a tremendous amount of radio and recording work in the 20s and 30s and played for Sousa and Pryor.

Also George Bruns, (great West Coast jazz player) and Country Washburne (tubist and arranger for Ted Weems). And a name that I doubt you'll hear: Harry Barth. Barth was a fantastic player (tuba and bass) and was with the Ted Lewis band among others. Check out a CD entitled "The Jazzworthy Ted Lewis" and you'll see what I mean.

For something unexpected check out Lawson Buford! Go to the Red Hot Jazz site (superb site), find Elgar's Creole Orchestra and play "Brotherly Love".

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