Small group jazz with tuba?

[fasstrack]

They look so happy. Sure this wasn't an ad for Stelazine?

[jlhoots]

Didn't Anthony Braxton "threaten" at one time to create a composition for 100 tubas??

[russes01]

Marcus Rojas also nicely featured with Lester Bowie and Dave Douglas' brass bands. A direct link to a direct influence for Douglas I think.

[Joe]

Dick Cary also arranged some really interesting neither-trad-nor-modern charts for a colorful (tuba and vibes!) Bobby Hackett group in the late 50's... I believe their lone studio recording is the Capitol GOTHAM JAZZ SCENE, but there are also some airshots that were made available on a Viper's Nest release back in the 90s'... OFF MINOR. John Dengler handles the tuba duties, and Ernie Caceres is featured on clarinet and baritone sax. Worth tracking down.

[colinmce]

Didn't Anthony Braxton "threaten" at one time to create a composition for 100 tubas??

Composition no. 19, performed outdoors at the World Financial Center in NYC, 2006. Video on YouTube and downloadable recording available via New Braxton House Records.

[paul secor]

Jesse Dulman on Kalaparush and the Light: Morning Song (Delmark)

[PHILLYQ]

A favorite

I saw them in concert once as openers for Brass Fantasy, a bunch of tubas and a drummer. Very good stuff.

Edited March 15, 2013 by PHILLYQ

[Late]

Quinn Wilson! Been listening to him on YouTube as part of Tiny Parham's groups. What clarity—especially for recordings from the 20's.

[BFrank]

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[jazzbo]

Sons of Kemet! L O L

[Rabshakeh]

39 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Sons of Kemet! L O L

What's the lol for?

[jazzbo]

12 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

What's the lol for?

Because it's a different group than any others mentioned here and I question personally whether it is "jazz" at all.

[kh1958]

The tuba thread is missing Tuba Skinny.

[Teasing the Korean]

Mildly off-topic, but it is interesting that Bill Barber, who played tuba on the Miles/Gil Evans albums, didn't really have many other jazz credentials.  He played in theatre pits and ended up teaching music in elementary schools.  

Interesting that someone would play on jazz albums with that level of notoriety and not do much more than that within jazz.  Then again, there is not much demand for the tuba. 

[Larry Kart]

Don Butterfield recorded with Clark Terry and Gil Melle. The Riverside album with Terry was  "Top and Bottom  Brass."

 

 

[Niko]

3 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Mildly off-topic, but it is interesting that Bill Barber, who played tuba on the Miles/Gil Evans albums, didn't really have many other jazz credentials.  He played in theatre pits and ended up teaching music in elementary schools.  

Interesting that someone would play on jazz albums with that level of notoriety and not do much more than that within jazz.  Then again, there is not much demand for the tuba. 

guess you could read Mike Zwerin's autobigraphies as meditations over this observation... what do you with the rest of your life if your claim to fame is Birth of the Cool and you still have 60 years to live after it happened?

[JSngry]

6 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

Don Butterfield recorded with Clark Terry and Gil Melle. The Riverside album with Terry was  "Top and Bottom  Brass."

 

 

Mingus as well 

[BFrank]

16 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Because it's a different group than any others mentioned here and I question personally whether it is "jazz" at all.

Different, maybe. But any less "jazz"? 

[jazzbo]

1 hour ago, BFrank said:

Different, maybe. But any less "jazz"? 

To be honest to me it's not that much jazz, so much depends on how you define "jazz."

[BFrank]

10 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

To be honest to me it's not that much jazz, so much depends on how you define "jazz."

😎 That's why we're here

[Peter Friedman]

Abit surprised thisone has not been mentioned?

[JSngry]

It was. See Larry's post above 

[mjazzg]

On 11/24/2022 at 5:50 AM, BFrank said:

Great Jazz album 😄

[medjuck]

Some of the early Ellington recordings have a tuba rather than a bass and are rather small groups. E.g. the first East St. Louis Toodle-O and Birmingham Breakdown from Nov. 1926.