Howard Johnson is universally known as the finest proponent of the jazz tuba in the world, as well as being quite proficient on the baritone saxophone. He also plays flugelhorn, bass clarinet, cornet, ...

Rudy Guidry has had a love affair with music since the third grade. It started with the marimba, then he found the recorder. The clarinet came next, followed by the baritone sax. By his sophomore year ...

Malaby has merged his two trios — with a cello and a tuba — into a quartet called Tubacello. Their new album is Scorpion Eater. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says he hopes to hear from them again. This ...

Placentia’s Stan Freese stood in the shade of a pepper tree in his front yard and pointed to a branch holding a full-size tuba. “I played this one in the Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans back in 1988, ...