Best Tuba Player on the Planet
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No one's mentioned Jim Gourlay? Or even as best bander Les Niesh? Didn't his CD come higher than two of Baadsvics this recent ITEC?
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Nice resurrection of a five-years-dead thread!LCTuba89 wrote:Patrick Harrild
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Jim Gourlay has some excellent work on the Eb tuba. Most excellent choice of a musician. (and yes I'm saying that like Bill and Ted. )tuba.bobby wrote:No one's mentioned Jim Gourlay? Or even as best bander Les Niesh? Didn't his CD come higher than two of Baadsvics this recent ITEC?
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Roland Szentpali. By far!
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Big +1Udi wrote:I can't say who's the best tuba player on the planet.
I find inspiration in the way Nat McIntosh plays sousaphone in the context of popular music music. To my ears, he found a very relevant and unique sound pallete and atitude to playing contemporary non classical tuba. He also has fantastic groove.
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Kyle (Turner) - read your post and was looking for the LIKE button!
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DAILY. - of course.bloke wrote:which planet?
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Without a doubt, the legendary Arnold Jacobs!
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John Fletcher NO DOUBT
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That WAS a great sound!
My clarinet playing high school band director, John Gorball, was also a super baritone player and had just about the best sound I've heard. I remember when I had independent band and would run through the music with him- him on the newish school Yamaha front bell (nice horn!) and me on my beloved Amati. The choir director heard us one time, said "he's almost as good as you John!", I butchered a line, and Gorball pulled his mouthpiece away from his lips just long enough to say something funny/snarky. Whoops.
My clarinet playing high school band director, John Gorball, was also a super baritone player and had just about the best sound I've heard. I remember when I had independent band and would run through the music with him- him on the newish school Yamaha front bell (nice horn!) and me on my beloved Amati. The choir director heard us one time, said "he's almost as good as you John!", I butchered a line, and Gorball pulled his mouthpiece away from his lips just long enough to say something funny/snarky. Whoops.
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Best jazz/dixieland player..what about Red Lehr ?? You can't tell me none of you haven't heard of David "Red" Lehr ???
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12 to the 12th power huh...**** ,....for the sake of not getting into big dick swinging match,I'll just say that he might not have a college pedigree,he never took a music lesson in his life,BUT ,he has accoplished this.... A farmer, butcher with his own meat processing plant and market, real estate entrepreneur, and world-class sharp-shooter, Red is also an astounding virtuoso of the sousaphone, combining unique technique with showmanship. At five years old he stood on an orange crate to play his daddy's trombone. In grade school, as the strongest and tallest kid, he began to play the big sousaphone with which he has intrigued audiences ever since. David "Red" Lehr, sousaphone, is recognized as one of the finest jazz sousaphone players in the world. Red is basically a self taught musician who started on trombone at the age of six and then changed to sousaphone at age thirteen. Mainly playing in marching and "oom-pa" bands, Red started with a banjo band in St. Louis at Your Father's Mustache in 1961. He played at various banjo palaces until 1977, when he joined Jeannie Kittrel's Jazz Incredibles and the Old St. Louis Levee Band. He went on his first European tour with the Jazz Incredibles in 1985, a tour which took him to France, Germany and Holland. In 1989 he toured Scotland, Wales and Holland. Red was featured soloist at the National Tuba Symposium in 1975 and has performed on several occasions with Richard Hayman and the Saint Louis Symphony Pops Orchestra. Red was hand-picked for an all-star 7-piece International Band at the 1994 Sacramento Jazz Jubilee. He was selected by readers of The American Rag in a national survey in 2000 as their favorite of all jazz sousaphonists. Admired by classical as well as jazz musicians, Red has been starred in regional and national conferences of brass instruments (Champaign IL, 1973; Lexington KY, 1990; Bloomington IL, 2005). He has appeared in concert with Billy Butterfield, Jack Maheu, Barrett Deems, Ernie Carson, Jerry Fuller, and Pee Wee Mateese. By day Red keeps busy at his meat market in New Athens, Illinois. By night he plays the jazz he loves. He currently leads the St. Louis Rivermen, the Jazz Incredibles, the Old St. Louis Levee Band, and Red Lehr's Powerhouse Five...bloke wrote:Rich smoked him 12 to the 12th power...64galaxie wrote:Best jazz/dixieland player..what about Red Lehr ??
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You really should listen to *all* of this, but you *could* skip to 47:00 first.
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Hello Tubabum, Have you ever heard the CD that the Jazz Incredibles recorded in 1995 in Japan ?? In 1995 the JI gave three concerts in Tokyo, Japan, with Akira Tsumura's STORYVILLE DANDIES JAZZ BAND (He is the author of the book 1001 Banjos) and the JI recorded a great CD with Tsumura's band. A few boxes of the CD's were sent home with the JI, but the were never sold due to the politically incorrect cover on the CD. It seems Mr.Tsumura put a caption on the back of the CD of a Black man in a hammock eating a piece of watermelon. None the less, the Japanese musicians he had on the CD were really top notch. I'll see if I can dig up a copy of that CD,I've got one somewhere.....
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