Jazz Articles about Eli Newberger

Eli Newberger: Music Maker, Medicine Man

by Edward Bride
January 13, 2010

Such is the nature of jazz tuba that few prominent players are household names outside their genre. Can you name “the Art Tatum of the tuba" or a “the Clifford Brown of the tuba"? Many of these instrumental performers are part-timers. Only, don't tell Eli Newberger that jazz is his secondary field: it ranks solidly in a two-way tie with his role as physician, lecturer and consultant in pediatric matters.

To jazz fans, Newberger is perhaps best-known as co-founder and ...

Eli Newberger/Jimmy Mazzy/Butch Thompson: The Men They Will Become

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 2000

As a music critic, one must always try to have open ears, and appreciate music from different cultures, genres, and time periods. Also, one must recognize that a lot of hard work and money go into the making of a CD, and regardless of the artistic merit of the finished product, that effort should be commended. That being said, I must admit I don't like this record. The music on the disc is comprised mostly of old standards from the ...