“It’s a funny instrument,” says tuba player Matt Healy ... Last year, for a U of M jazz ensemble concert, Healy composed a piece for big band that he and other students performed with the Peterson ...

For years, purist fans of traditional New Orleans jazz have worried their favorite music is a dying art ... Enter the band Tuba Skinny. On a recent weekend on Frenchmen Street, the hottest two ...

he formed a different tuba band called Gravity that, in 1996, finally had the opportunity to record (plus play at the Monterey Jazz Festival). Gravity recorded three albums for Verve Records ...