Tuba Player in France needed

[tubajoe]

Greetings

A friend of mine, a Grammy-nominated kids’ music guy needs a tuba player for a couple of gigs this summer in France (near Paris, I believe) This guy is the “music teacher to the stars’ kids” here n NYC. He asked me to put the word on the streets.

The music is jazz-ish, but you don’t necessarily need to be a “jazz” person (my background is the usual orchestral stuff just as many of yours is, don’t worry about genre stigma)

You need to be a professional player who can navigate lead sheets / head charts and hold down simple grooves, while being charismatic on stage (it’s a kids’ show)

The charts are fairly simple and the songs are short. I’d describe the overall approach as “sousaphone-ish” (although I don’t use a sousaphone) You’ll need to be comfortable standing while playing, and be able to deal with some minor theatrical elements, such as starting a song offstage and holding it down while climbing up on stage. (see the video) You are the bass player of the band, it’s not a solo show-off thing, it’s a hold-it-down-for-the-band type of thing.

Here is a video from the exact same show, filmed here in NYC:
http://youtu.be/zcmlwSeWko8



If you have interest or recommendations, please email me at joe (at) tubajoe (dot) com

PS - these are paid gigs, but there is not the budget for importing a tuba player from far away that is not local to the gigs. (otherwise, I'd probably be doing the gigs, enjoying lovely France!)


Thanks!!

[tubajoe]

I found another video of us doing the same show in a different venue, so you can see what is required:

http://youtu.be/eLvhdkD6O3Y

[sousaphone68]

Are you Big Momma Tuba? Is that what happens when a Tuba and Bass Clarinet are left with out a chaperone? And then to not keep your baby clarinet supervised what's the number for child services

Liked the music though great concept Big Moma is now stuck in my head

[Tom Gregory]

See if he can get in touch with Thierry Thibeault. He went to Boston Conservatory while I was there. He is fantastic. His group, in France, is called Epsilon 4 or you could get in touch with Mel Culbertson to find him.

[loic]

hello,
did you find your guy?
if not you can contact me by mp, I probably will be able to help you.

Loïc

[SousaSaver]

Francois Thuillier -

Enough said...