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The Witness Collection - The Soul of American Music
By Ralph Hepola
Label: Clarion CLR9044CD
Released: 2004
Ralph Hepola’s Tuba Carves Out A Place For The Much-Maligned Horn In Modern Jazz
Ralph Hepola’s Tuba carves out a place for the much-maligned horn in modern jazz. The virtuoso tuba player leads his quartet through a set of his freewheeling originals, playing with remarkable fluency as the lead instrument. While the tuba has often been stereotyped as a limited instrument that keeps time in marching bands, Dixieland and polka ...
Veteran tuba master Ralph Hepola creates a dynamic, supremely soulful new lead voice for the idiom on his eclectic debut album 'Tuba'
Invented in both its bass and tenor forms in the 1830s by instrument builders Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht, Johann Gottfried Moritz and Johann’s son Carl Wilhelm Moritz, the tuba played a prominent role over the next century in the works of Strauss, Stravinsky, Wagner, Prokofiev, Brahms, Gershwin and others. Having played for several years with the Basel ...
Ralph Hepola Makes A Strong Case For The Tuba As A Lead Instrument In Jazz
The tuba, like the banjo and the accordion, has sometimes had an image problem during the past century. While it has had an important role in classical music and early New Orleans jazz, the tuba has often been associated with Dixieland, amateur bands, and comedy. There have been exceptions such as its use in the Miles ...
Tuba
By Ralph Hepola
Label: Spectrum Recordings 180820
Released: 2019
Track listing: 1) Roots and Wings
2) Clarion Call
3) Hepmobile
4) Blue Moment
5) Phraseology
6) Ralph’s Riff
7) Through the Wringer
8) Incoming Blues
9) Black-Eyed Susan
10) Scottish Lullaby
11) Mary, Young and Fair
12) American Landscape;
Blue Moment,
Clarion Call, Hepmobile, Incoming Blues and Phraseology composed and arranged by
Ralph
Hepola. American Landscape
and Roots And Wings composed and arranged by Ralph Hepola and Peter Shu. Three
Traditional
Celtic Airs: Black-Eyed
Susan, Mary, Young and Fair and Scottish Lullaby arranged by Ralph Hepola and Peter Shu.
Ralph’s
Riff and Through the
Wringer composed and arranged by Peter Lothringer.
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Ralph Hepola
Ralph Hepola was born into a Scandinavian-American family in Saint Paul, Minnesota in the United States where his early eclectic musical interests led to piano study before starting on the tuba at age twelve. At seventeen, he was chosen to play before the British Royal Family in the Manitoba All-Province Band at Brandon University in Manitoba, Canada. While still in high school, Ralph began performing as an extra musician with the Minnesota Orchestra, which later included recordings, and tours to Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York City. While still a teenager, Ralph won a position with The United States Army Band of Washington, D.C. At age twenty, he won a full scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music in the Young Artist Competition of the Minnesota Orchestra/WAMSO.
Roots and Wings
Album: Tuba
By Ralph Hepola
Label: Spectrum Recordings 180820
Released: 2019
Duration: 7:11
Scottish Lullaby
Featuring the music of Ralph Hepola
Duration: 3:41
In HepTones, Ralph's solo tuba unites with musical groundbreakers in both classical gems and contemporary jazz; unique, innovative and adventuresome.
Route 3 takes you on a trip through time and around the country. Classic Jazz, the Roaring Twenties, the Swing Era, Back to the Fifties, and Music from Movies & Broadway Shows. Listen to twenty songs and watch twelve videos from both groups at RalphHepola.com.
