TUBA time

[james]

Also, "Shallow Water Oh Mama" is my number-one tuba shit.

Also also, James Reese's "Summertime" (Greenville, SC, holler) is French-horn-led and really good.

 

[Gary]

I ride for the tuba. Its like a tuned fart.

 

[verb606]

In my neighborhood, when I hear a car radiating devastating bass, a solid sixty percent of the time the source will reveal itself to be some tuba-heavy norte??o chit.

Haha. Logan Square-related? Yeah, those dudes got the boomin' systems.

 

[fishmongerfunk]

I meant to say, the funkyest tubas are on NOLA brass band records. First funky one I know is the Olympia Brass Band from the mid 80s. Rebirth had a record out a few years later. Before that you get less funky stuff and more versions of Saints.

there's also that french market jazz band lp on flying dutchman that has that funky version of bongalusa strut.

 

[LaserWolf]

I meant to say, the funkyest tubas are on NOLA brass band records. First funky one I know is the Olympia Brass Band from the mid 80s. Rebirth had a record out a few years later. Before that you get less funky stuff and more versions of Saints.

Not sure when it came out, but recorded in 1974...

Thats the one.
I bought it in the mid 80s in a chain record store.

 

[mannybolone]

Is there a tuba somewhere in New Hope's "Godofallofus"?

I'd be surprised if there wasn't.

How does one tell the diff b/t a tuba and sousaphone though?

 

[LaserWolf]

Is there a tuba somewhere in New Hope's "Godofallofus"?

I'd be surprised if there wasn't.

How does one tell the diff b/t a tuba and sousaphone though?
You would have to be crazy familiar.

My guess is, since the sousa is smaller it is pitched higher.

There are differently pitched tubas too.

 

[parsec]

I ride for this one.

 

[tripledouble]

ooooh, that looks hot.

ok, next question is, is it hard to play a tuba?
honestly, im talking about those real big dog ones. do you need crazy lung capacity for that? does it get crazy heavy if you are in a marching band swinging that shit around?
who has played one before?

 

[tripledouble]

thats a big dog dude with the tuba. and thats a big ass tuba too. i saw the roots last year and they had a big one too (pasue bitches)

 

[ladyday]

I tried once. For me the hard part was getting the embouchure right because the mouthpiece is f*cking enormous compared to a trumpet.

 

[tripledouble]

whats emboucure?

 

[ladyday]

how you shape your mouth and lips on the mouthpiece.

this is all starting to sound dirty.

 

[Horseleech]

thats a big dog dude with the tuba. and thats a big ass tuba too. i saw the roots last year and they had a big one too (pasue bitches)

The Roots has a Sousaphone, basically the same but you "wear" it and can play mobile, standing up.

 

[tripledouble]

that shit is off the hook.

how you shape your mouth and lips on the mouthpiece.
this is all starting to sound dirty.

LOL.might as well not dance around it. embrace the dirty!!

 

[waxjunky]

How prominent does the tuba have to be? Tuba solos? That's a tough one, to say the least. I'd say less than 1% of my records feature the tuba.

 

[m_dejean]

I like the sound of the tuba, but besides the brass bands, it mostly seems to be relegated to free jazz or big bands with adventurous horn sections which is a bit of a shame IMO.

When I think of tubas I think of Howard Johnson (Gil Evans a.o.), Joe Daley (Sam Rivers a.o.) and Bob Stewart (Carla Bley, Gil Evans a.o.).

Some tuba tunes with "breaks, yo" appeal:

Sam Rivers "Tranquility"
Carla Bley "Song Sung Long"
Gil Evans "Thoroughbred"

And when it comes to french horns I think Julius Watkins is good.

 

[LaserWolf]

thats a big dog dude with the tuba. and thats a big ass tuba too. i saw the roots last year and they had a big one too (pasue bitches)

Tubas are for sitting, sousaphones are for marching. Named for John Phillip.

 

[HarveyCanal]

thats a big dog dude with the tuba. and thats a big ass tuba too. i saw the roots last year and they had a big one too (pasue bitches)

Tubas are for sitting, sousaphones are for marching. Named for John Phillip.
In NOLA, tubas are for marching if they are for anything.

 

[LaserWolf]

thats a big dog dude with the tuba. and thats a big ass tuba too. i saw the roots last year and they had a big one too (pasue bitches)

Tubas are for sitting, sousaphones are for marching. Named for John Phillip.
In NOLA, tubas are for marching if they are for anything.
No doubt.

My understanding was, if it wraps around the body it is a sousaphone.
All the pictures I am seeing of street parades are the wrap around type.

I am no tuba expert.