Howard Lewis Johnson was an American jazz musician, known mainly for his work on tuba and baritone saxophone, although he also played the bass clarinet, trumpet, and other reed instruments. He is known to have expanded the tuba’s known capacities in jazz.
Bob Stewart is an American jazz tuba player and music teacher.
David W. Bargeron is an American trombonist and tuba player who was a member of the jazz-rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Escalator over the Hill is mostly referred to as a jazz opera, but it was released as a "chronotransduction", with "words by Paul Haines, adaptation and music by Carla Bley, production and coordination by Michael Mantler", performed by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra.
The Real Thing is a double live album by Taj Mahal, released in 1971. It was recorded on February 13, 1971, at the Fillmore East in New York City and features Taj Mahal backed by a band that includes four tuba players.
Miles & Quincy: Live at Montreux is a collaborative live album by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and conductor Quincy Jones. It was recorded at the 1991 Montreux Jazz Festival and released by Warner Bros. Records in 1993.
Recycling the Blues & Other Related Stuff is the fifth American blues studio album by Taj Mahal. Tracks 1-7 were recorded live; tracks 8-11 are studio recordings. The album cover shows a photograph of Taj Majal and Mississippi John Hurt taken by David Gahr backstage at the Newport Folk Festival in July 1964.
Happy Just to Be Like I Am is the fourth studio album by American blues artist Taj Mahal.
The Odyssey Of Funk & Popular Music is an album by Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy recorded for the Atlantic label in 1997. It is the eighth album by Bowie's Brass Fantasy group, and the final album by Bowie issued in his lifetime. It features performances by Bowie, Vincent Chancey, Gary Valente, Joshua Roseman, Louis Bonilla, Ravi Best, Gerald Brezel, Joseph Gollehon, Bob Stewart, Victor See Yuen and Vinnie Johnson.
Theatre is an album by George Gruntz's Concert Jazz Band '83 recorded in July 1983 and released on ECM the following year.
Stone Blue is an album by the guitarist Pat Martino, recorded in 1998 and released on the Blue Note label.
There Comes a Time is an album by the jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1975 and performed by Evans with an orchestra featuring David Sanborn, Howard Johnson, Billy Harper and Ryo Kawasaki. The album was re-released with an altered tracklist on CD in 1988.
Music Inc. is an album by American jazz trumpeter Charles Tolliver's Music Inc. with a Big Band recorded in 1970 and first released on the Strata-East label.
Nedra Johnson is an American rhythm and blues and jazz singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has performed internationally at jazz, blues, pride and women's music festivals as a solo artist, a tuba player, and vocalist.
Kenwood Marshall Dennard is an American jazz drummer and retired professor from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.
First Prize is an album by pianist and composer George Gruntz's Concert Jazz Band, which was recorded in Switzerland in 1989 and released on Enja Records.
Joseph Peter Daley is an American educator, jazz musician, composer and arranger known for his work with the tuba, trombone and euphonium.
With Love is an album by the Charles Tolliver Big Band, led by trumpeter and composer Charles Tolliver. Arriving after a hiatus of nearly 20 years, it was recorded on June 2 and 3, 2006, at Bennett Studios in Englewood, New Jersey, and was issued later that year by Blue Note Records, Tolliver's first release as a leader for the label.
Testimony is an album by multi-instrumentalist Howard Johnson and his band Gravity. Johnson's fourth and final release as a leader, it was recorded at MSR Studios in New York City, and was issued in 2017 by Tuscarora Records. On the album, Johnson is joined by tubists Velvet Brown, Dave Bargeron, Earl McIntyre, Joseph Daley, and Bob Stewart, pianist Carlton Holmes, double bassist Melissa Slocum, and drummer Buddy Williams. The recording also features guest appearances by vocalist Nedra Johnson, tubist Joe Exley, and background vocalists CJ Wright, Butch Watson, and Mem Nahadr.
Gravity!!! is an album by multi-instrumentalist Howard Johnson and his band Gravity. Johnson's second release as a leader, it was recorded at Clinton Recording Studios in New York City, and was issued in 1996 by Verve Records. On the album, Johnson is joined by tubists Dave Bargeron, Joseph Daley, Nedra Johnson, Carl Kleinsteuber, Tom Malone, Earl McIntyre, Marcus Rojas, and Bob Stewart, guitarist George Wadenius, pianists Ray Chew, Paul Shaffer, and James Williams, double bassists Bob Cranshaw and Melissa Slocum, drummers Kenwood Dennard and Kenny Washington, and percussionist Victor See Yuen.
