For some years now, the tuba has been going through a metamorphosis. Call it, as I do, a Tuba Civil Rights Movement. People long associated the instrument with polkas, elephants, clowns, and players ...

Mike Corrigan is maintaining a centuries-old craft of making and repairing brass instruments. Musicians from Bruno Mars' band ...

Five tremendous brass musicians--each a virtuoso in his own right--form the legendary Canadian Brass. With an international reputation as one of the most popular brass ensembles today, Canadian Brass ...

The WMNF Song of the Day is "Night Train" by The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, recorded Live at Tipitina's with famed trumpeter ...

In “A Tuba to Cuba,” New Orleans musician Ben Jaffe pays tribute to his father, Allan Jaffe, a fellow tuba player, who moved his family to New Orleans in the early 1960s and in 1961 became, with his ...

You might not know Sam Pilafian by name, but you've probably heard his tuba. Whether it was on Pink Floyd's "The Wall" or he was playing while doing a headstand — a move that gave him the nickname ...

For those of you that can carry a tune and want to pay respects to the Tuba Man, here’s your chance. Trumpet player Ian Newhall is asking any willing musicians to join him in a musical memorial, ...

Over the weekend, 99 tuba players gathered to play a few tunes in honor one of their own, a studio musician named Tommy Johnson who died in October. For 50 years, Johnson was the tuba player in ...