I am Shinnosuke Iguchi, a double bass player, instructor, and conductor. I received this question in my note question box.I ...

Rex Brown is currently celebrating the legacy he helped build, playing bass and revisiting the music of Pantera on the band current tour dates. But did you know that the bass wasn't his first ...

After the final run-through before the performance, the club members look at each other and nod. Everyone on stage thinks the ...

The tuba is a funny instrument. Its sound is like a gaseous rumbling from deep within the earth—or our bellies. Hardly fleet of foot—it’s heavy, often pushing 30 pounds, and awkward—it’s seldom given ...

The tuba is one of the most powerful and prominent instruments in the symphony orchestra. Tubaist Ralph Hepola has played on outstanding classical recordings (see selected discography below), but this ...

Traditional Mexican music, known as 'banda,' has been popular in Southern California for decades. And now, the tuba has gone from carrying the bass line in the back of the band, to stepping out front ...

The sound of Christmas in Victoria began Saturday with the rumble of bass in Market Square. More than 100 musicians playing tubas and euphoniums marked the 40th anniversary of Tuba Christmas. “I just ...

Geoff brought a bass tuba to BBC Guernsey's Outside Broadcast at the Guernsey Museum. He writes: "This instrument was in the German infantry band 'Pioneer Battalion 15' which marched into Guernsey in ...

On a hot, humid afternoon, Bob Stewart has called a rehearsal at his Harlem apartment. Six musicians are in a circle in the living room — on one side, trumpet and trombone; on the other, cello, viola ...

Sousaphones, typically relegated to the remote reaches of the band room and back areas of the stage, marched into the limelight at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on Saturday afternoon, hijacking center ...