NEW ORLEANS — The iconic Preservation Hall Jazz Band tuba that was stolen from creative director Ben Jaffe’s car is home. Photo courtesy Preservation Hall Jazz Band Jaffe announced the return of the ...
This is an opinion tribute cartoon. When the Saints Go Marching In, Charles E. Hall will be there ‘holding down the low end’ on tuba. For one, there will be the thrill of performing before a large ...
For some years now, the tuba has been going through a metamorphosis. Call it, as I do, a Tuba Civil Rights Movement. People long associated the instrument with polkas, elephants, clowns, and players ...
Christian Cortez wears a necklace with a black and red cross on it. The cross isn’t religious in the traditional sense, though for Cortez, it might as well be. It’s a symbol for Crossmen, an ...
NEW ORLEANS -- A distinctive part of the world-famous Preservation Hall Jazz Band has gone missing. Musician Ben Jaffe says his iconic tuba has been stolen, and he's now offering a reward to get it ...
Tuba player, Kerwin "Fat" James, founding member of the New Birth Brass Band, died last week in New Orleans. For the past year Kerwin had been in a coma suffering complications from a stroke The ...
On Sunday, the Hot 8 Brass Band played the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for the first time without Bennie Pete, their longtime leader and tuba player. Pete was 45 when he died, in September, ...
Dave Wilson is a college football reporter. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. BATON ROUGE, La. -- Capt. Dale Dicharry, the commander of ...
NEW ORLEANS, La. - The tuba used by Preservation Hall Jazz Band creative director Ben Jaffe has been stolen. The distinctive tuba, which has the band’s name and “New Orleans” emblazoned across the ...
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