Results for "tuba"

Antonio Underwood

Born: July 7, 1960

Since leaving the Yale School of Music in 1987 as a Tuba Major (Classical),Antonio Underwood has been a member of the two-time Grammy Awardwinning McCoy Tyner Big Band, featuring such artists as: Dee DeeBridgewater, Savion Glover, Diane Reeves, and Slide Hampton. Playing in allthe major jazz venues throughout the world.

Tony began his career playing in NYC clubs (Lush Life, Sweet Basil’s, VillageGate, The Vanguard, the Greenwich House, The Public Theatre, AlternateMuseum, etc) and festivals (JVC, South Seaport, etc.) at the age of nineteen.

In addition to being a featured performing with Jazz Legend the late MaxRoach, Tony has shared the stage with some of the greats as Jerry Gonzalez,Julius Preister, Delfeayo Marsalis, Bob Belden, Christian McBride, Cecil Taylor,Cecil Bridgewater, Vincent Herring, Joshua Redman, Javon Jackson, the lateLester Bowie, John Faddis, Charlie Haden, Eddie Henderson, Billy Harper, JohnZorn, Steve Turre, Virgil Jones, the late John Stubblefield, Joe Lavano, HowardJohnson, the late Ray Draper, Muhal Abrahams, the late Leroy Jenkins, the lateJulius Hemphill, Henry Threadgill, Andrew Cyril, the late Fred Hopkins, thelate Ed & David Townsend, and many more.

Ron Caswell

Born: July 12, 1977

Ron Caswell (tuba) Born a pauper in the municipality of Trenton, NJ, Ron Caswell escaped his cultural abyss to attend the Mannes College of Music. He's performed on tuba with The New York City Opera, New Jersey Symphony, Little Orchestra Society, Our State Fair (Broadway), Flying Karamazov Brothers (Broadway), Orchestra of St. Lukes, Slavic Soul party!, Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars and too many more to mention. Ron has also co-produced salsa records with Martin Arroyo and has performed with numerous Latin bands playing trumpet and tuba. He plays bass in numerous rock projects including the underground East Village rock sensation the KNOBS!

Kit Johnson

Born: August 20, 1960

As a fifth grader at Myrtle Creek (Oregon) Elementary, Kit began his music career on trumpet. But by high school, he had stretched the band director's patience to the max, and he was convinced that switching to an instrument farther from the podium would be in everyone's best interests. In spite of a formidable lobbying effort by the timpani section, Kit moved to tuba. After two years at the University of Oregon, Kit furthered his "oom-pah" training while serving with the U.S. Army Band in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He entertained unsuspecting Europeans until the authorities got wise and extradited him to the States in 1984

Rob Espino

Born: January 21, 1975

Rob Espino began his interest in music at the age of 12 where he joined the local JR High band in Kingsville, TX and attended H. M. King High School where he studied under Mr. Fred Obert and Mr. Ronnie Rios of Alice, TX. Rob's professional career started in 1989 when he started playing violin with several Mariachi Groups from South Texas. His musical experience expanded in 1994 when he joined the “The Commandant's Own” The United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, the only Active Military Drum and Bugle Corps in existence today in Washington, D.C. In 1998, he requested a transfer to the Marine Corps Band in New Orleans, La. In 2000, Rob was fascinated with the New Orleans music scene meeting, performing and recording with New Orleans musicians and bands such as; Leroy Jones, Craig Klein, Mark Mullins, Lucien Barbarin, Lillian Boutte, Topsy Chapman, Steve Pistorius, Tom Fischer, Bob, George, and Gerald French, Shannon Powell, Russell Batiste, Rick Trolsen, Mark Braud, the late Anthony “Tuba Fats” Lacen, Greg Stafford, Troy Andrews, George Porter Jr., and Kirk Joseph

David Ostwald

David Ostwald, AB’77, fell in love with the big brass tuba in sixth grade, when he lived in suburban Philadelphia. He was so enthralled with its sound that when his parents asked what he wanted for his bar mitzvah, he requested one. They said they’d honor his wish, provided he prove his dedication. So Ostwald found a teacher—the tubaist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, who steeped him in the classics. After two years his parents, Lore Ostwald, AM’47, and Martin Ostwald, AM’48, gave him his belated gift—the same instrument he still plays 33 years later. “My tuba has been a magic carpet,” he says one evening at Manhattan’s Birdland Jazz Club, where David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Centennial Band has performed Tuesday nights since May 2000

Eli Newberger

After growing up in New York, Eli went to Yale, where he majored in music theory. Although already an accomplished tuba player, Eli wished to serve people directly, and in his sophomore year started taking premedical courses. Perhaps the prospect of counting rests in an orchestra for much of his professional life helped this decision. But his interests in music were both in performance and in critical analysis, and the latter seemed to fit well with a career in science. His CV, incidentally, includes several publications on the development of jazz piano style. Eli graduated from Yale Medical School in 1966, and spent another year there as a house officer in internal medicine.

His next two years were spent in the Peace Corps, working in rural West Africa

Tommy Johnson

Born: January 7, 1935

John Thomas Johnson, a first-chair studio musician in Hollywood for 50 years, Johnson played on thousands of recordings -- jingles, commercials, television shows like The Flintstones and feature films. His tuba can be heard on hundreds of movie soundtracks, including The Godfather and Titanic and, most memorably, the John Williams scores for Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones trilogy and Jaws. In the back pages of the Los Angeles Times, they ran an obituary for a guy named Tommy Johnson, who died in October at 71 of complications from cancer and kidney failure

Jim Self

Jim Self is a Los Angeles freelance musician, a veteran of over 1400 motion picture scores, hundreds of television shows and records, and is tuba soloist on many prominent movies. His tuba was the "Voice of the Mothership" in John Williams score to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Recent films include War of the Worlds, Lemony Snicket, Legend of Zorro, King Kong, Ice Age/Meltdown, Eight Below, X Men 3, All the King’s Men and Evan Almighty. He is Principal Tuba/Cimbasso with the Pasadena and Pacific Symphonies, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Los Angeles Opera and Opera Pacific orchestras

Luca Corrado

Born: December 7, 1973

Luca Corrado, Nato a Trento il 07 dicembre 1973 dopo vari anni di studio (??!??!? tanto per dire) suona Contrabbasso & Basso elettrico, Basso Tuba, Chitarra, Mandola e Mandolino, Tamburitza, flauto traverso...and many more. Ha collaborato con diversi gruppi musicali della scena Romana tra i quali: HERBABELLADONNA (Lake Records 2000) Co-autore del singlolo "E' Permesso?"- BANDA CONNEMARA (1998) - Co-fondatore del progetto e contrabbassista in diversi concerti ed esibizioni live - www.bandaconnemara.it, BODEGA BAY (2001) - Musica elettronica Laptop ed esibizioni live - www.bodega.too.it - FRANCESCO FORNI (2004) - "Cantautorissimo", FANFARA KODETTE (2005) Cantautorato ottonato - www.fanfarakodette.altervista.org, TETRAYS (2004) Musiche danze d'ispirazione balcanica - www.tetrays.too.it, IMPROMACHINE (2004) (in trio e quartetto) Improvvisazione radicale e composizione estemporanea di stampo jazzistico - www.impromachine.com, ....... ora riapprodato al rock ...ma sempre "indie" è diventato il nuovo bassista dei DESIGN - www.designformusic.net - www.myspace.com/designformusic

William Roper

Born: April 14, 1955

William Roper's professional experience ranges from the symphony stage to free improvisation groups. He has toured the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe with jazz and classical ensembles. His musicianship is represented on recordings with the rock bands: Thelonious Monster, The Fibonaccis and The Other Woman; poets: Jimmy Townes and Mark Weber; avant ensemble: Motor Totemist Guild; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Parachute Express, and Chimurenga musician Thomas Mapfumo. He has played and/or recorded with jazzmen: The Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, American Jazz Institute ensembles, The Luckman Jazz Orchestra under James Newton, Bobby Bradford, Anthony Braxton, John Carter, Jimmy Cleveland, Douglas Ewart, Vinny Golia, Billy Higgins, Glenn Horiuchi, Clay Jenkins, Yusef Lateef, James Newton, Charles Owens, John Rapson, Kim Richmond, Adam Rudolph, Wadada Leo Smith, Horace Tapscott, Michael Vlatkovich and Francis Wong