On Sunday, the Hot 8 Brass Band played the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for the first time without Bennie Pete, their longtime leader and tuba player. Pete was 45 when he died, in September, ...

Oct. 10—Rats gnawed at Richard Antoine White's tiny body when he was a baby. He still bears the scars to prove it. As an infant, his alcoholic mother abandoned him in a warehouse. Today, he is the ...

Baltimore — Tuba player Richard White knows just how to make his deep pitched brass instrument growl. But very "few" know the story behind "how" the Baltimore native made it to the big stage. "Some ...

The Krewe of Morpheus has announced that Louisiana State University's beloved Tuba player, Kent Broussard, will serve as grand marshal of the parade in 2026. Broussard, also known as Tiger Tuba Kent, ...

Everybody knows that the tuba player is the party animal of the orchestra. He’s the one you want out hang out with after the show, have a few drinks with and maybe share some rowdy jokes. Dressed in ...

Gary Ofenloch didn’t get through 36 years of playing the tuba for the Utah Symphony without learning a few tricks. For example, he keeps his main instrument, a contrabass tuba, at his home studio in ...

Tuba player, Kerwin "Fat" James, founding member of the New Birth Brass Band, died last week in New Orleans. For the past year Kerwin had been in a coma suffering complications from a stroke The ...

As if tuba player Aaron Dodd hadn’t faced enough personal setbacks in a made-for-Hollywood life, the former studio musician-turned-street performer was devastated when a doctor told him that his lungs ...

DUBAI: Spin sensation Tuba Hassan was voted the ICC’s Women’s Player of the Month for May on Monday, becoming the first player from Pakistan to win the award. Tuba was awarded the to honour after ...