Need Info on Solo for Tuba and Band: "Tuba-riff-ic"

[imperialbari]

Welcome!

With the advent of the web information started spreading also on matters better not going too public. The awareness of copyright matters has raised immensely alone in this millennium. It simply has become too risky to test the borderlines of copyright.

In that light your question may bear its answer in itself, as exactly the inclusion of the said light pop melodies may eventually have disencouraged any reprints, if the necessary permissions had not been obtained.

Klaus

[skeath]

I have played it several times, but not in this century. Dave Robertson was a prominent studio bass trombonist in the Dallas area in the 1970s-80s. Tubariffic was written for the North JH band sometime around 1980, as a sectional solo with band acc. The solo part is easy enough for decent 8th grade players, and the acc is easy enough for a JH band. The students who premiered it were all students of mine. Later, I played it as a solo with a few JH/HS bands. Since I seemed to have popularized it, Dave gave me a score and a set of parts, which I have guarded all these years. To my knowledge, the only other copy might be at North JH in Dallas (Richardson ISD).

The style is simple light jazz, very stock figures, almost a soft-shoe, and is a crowd pleaser. I had no idea it was out of print.

Regards,

SK

[musikfind1]

Dave Robertson
Tuba-riff-ic
Publisher: Dave Robertson ; Lebanon, Tn. : Laissez-Faire Music, ©1981.
Photocopy of holograph.
Description: 1 score (11 p.) ; 33 cm. x 23 cm. folded + 39 parts ; 33 cm.
Copy cataloged:
University of Minnesota, Morris Rodney A. Briggs Library, Morris, MN 56267
Arizona State University Libraries, Tempe, AZ 85287