Jazz Tubists

[MrHidan30]

We all know they are exist, but they are uncommon. Who are the most famous ones you've heard of?

[nycbone]

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[David Richoux]

Eli Newberger is excellent for trad jazz.
Matt Perrine for New Orleans old and new jazz.
Kirk Joseph - Dirty Dozen and much more.

This topic has gone around here a few times before... those are just a few.
Check this list - it is not complete.

[Bob Kolada]

Jerry Lackey, whom I've never met but played in an orchestra near mine, wrote a jazz concerto.

[Art Hovey]

Rich Matteson also did some amazing tuba playing with Louis Armstrong and the Dukes of Dixieland. Dave Gannett learned a lot from him (and also from Bill Bell and Harvey Phillips) as is evident on his recordings with the Black Dogs.

[jwjeffrey]

Dave Bargeron is the 1st Tuba player I heard soloing on tuba. I remember David Frost (Remember Him) had an afternoon program on for an hour.Blood,Sweat and Tears just came out with B,S AND T 4,and they were feautre on that show.Dave had just join the band.He brought on Gravity when they was known as Substructure and it just knock me out hearing at that time 5 tubas playing jazz.

[peter birch]

Dave Bargeron is the 1st Tuba player I heard soloing on tuba. I remember David Frost (Remember Him) had an afternoon program on for an hour.Blood,Sweat and Tears just came out with B,S AND T 4,and they were feautre on that show.Dave had just join the band.He brought on Gravity when they was known as Substructure and it just knock me out hearing at that time 5 tubas playing jazz.

Dave Bargeron did 2 albums of tuba jazz with Michel Goddard, imaginatively called "tuba tuba" and "tuba tuba tu"

[Mark]

We all know they are exist, but they are uncommon. Who are the most famous ones you've heard of?

The great ones may be uncommon, but there are a lot of jazz tuba players out there.

[Gongadin]

Julius McKee (Dirty Dozen Brass Band)
John Kirby (Fletcher Henderson)
Bill Barber
Brian Nalepka
Jonathan Dorn
Roger Donley
John Sass

[Bob Sacchi]

For trad jazz, Paul Scott and (the late) Don Butterfield and Norm Burbank

[Paul Scott]

Bob Sacchi and Mike Walbridge are two of my favorites in trad jazz. We'd also have to include Vince Giordano who also doubles on string bass and bass sax.

[Sharp]

Francois Thuillier
interview, en francais: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrvIORf78MA" target="_blank

w/ euphoniumist Anthony Caillet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6nMsLcJDsQ" target="_blank

[Uncle Buck]

Steve Call likes to play jazz tuba for cows . . .

[GC]

Marty Erickson is certainly no slouch.

[nycbone]

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[we3kings]

Jerry Lackey, whom I've never met but played in an orchestra near mine, wrote a jazz concerto.

I'm a student of one of his students. I was lucky enough to be able to photocopy the sheet-music for it. It's a pretty cool piece that goes through a bunch of different styles of jazz.

Perantoni has few good recording that could count for jazz.

[bigtubby]

HoJo of course, a long time favorite.

Maybe not famous but I recently discovered Janos Mazura and love his work with the blues trio Someday Baby
http://www.myspace.com/somedaybabymusic ... r-81932053

On the current topic, he worked with the jazz band Heavy Tuba Experience
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOPo5OotLvA

His credits also include gigs with a Klezmer band and principal tubist in several orchastras ...

[Ken Herrick]

Jake did a fair bit "early" in his career, including doubling on bass. He gave me a bit of a push to take up jazz work, a VERY good experience! John McNulty, (St Louis Symphony) did a fair amount of gigging and I often went down from Chicago to St Louis to sub for him when jobs conflicted with his orchestra work. Harvey set me up for some jobs in Boston which meant some good paying recording gigs.

A lot of "serious" players prefer sitting in a practice room playing the same 50 excerpts but could learn a LOT by playing some mouldy oldies in a trad group. It is great ear training and really helps with timing and good rhythm sense.

Bob Bauchens, former Chicago Lyric Opera also did a fair bit; he and I shared gigs.

As Gary Offenloch said when he first heard Dave Gannet on a club gig in Boston - "mind blowing"

[Biggs]

I can't believe there are people that only play 50 excerpts. Maybe if they learned to play jazz or Dixieland they would make more money

I can't believe there are people who interpreted that statement literally, yet still felt compelled to tell others what to do.

[David Richoux]

Well said Ken. I am not a professional musician, I am involved with science and research. I normally play 2-3 church (classical) gigs a year. I play at least 6, generally around 10 Dixieland, polka, jazz type gigs a year.

I can't believe there are people that only play 50 excerpts. Maybe if they learned to play jazz or Dixieland they would make more money

I probably couldn't play those "50 excerpts" to save my soul (without a lot of rehearsal) - I have had little classical music experience. I do play tuba for money or fun about 5-10 times a month. Sometimes I play from written parts, sometimes vague roadmaps, riff lines or chord charts, but most often by ear or memory. If I don't know a song I will admit it, but I can usually figure out how to play a bass line somehow that works well enough. Not everything I do is Dixie/Trad or New Orleans Hot Brass jazz but I don't get too deep into Bop or Post-Bop.

If I ever got near as good as HoJo or many of the others listed in this thread I would gladly change my status from "amateur with some pay" to "semi-pro league" but I am happy doing best I can at this point in my life!