Where The Tuba Lives: 5 New Orleans Songs Featuring The Fat Horn ‎| NPR

Lehva via Flickr Kirk Joseph of Dirty Dozen Brass Band on sousaphone.

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival begins Friday, and music fans from all over the world will flock to the city's racetrack for seven days of music. A lot of things make New Orleans a one-of-a-kind music town, but one is the tuba, the monstrous brass instrument worn like a python squeezing its victim...

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