Tuba Fats

Tuba Fats / Linda Young: After You've Gone

by Henry Smith
July 21, 2007

Peter Nissen's liner notes indicate that if you want to “find real New Orleans jazz all you've got to do is “go to Jackson Square, ask for 'Tuba Fats,' and he will help you. Well Nissen's right, but Anthony “Tuba Fats" Lacen was far more than a man who would merely help you on your quest to find real New Orleans jazz; he was real New Orleans jazz. Indeed, the local nonchalance of the liner notes aptly sums up the ...