Brass & Reed Music Center, an independently owned Daytona Beach band instrument repair shop on Mason Avenue has been a fixture since 1972.

The tuba was the first bass instrument in jazz, until it was replaced by the string bass. For nearly 50 years, Bob Stewart has been trying to carve out a new niche for his instrument in modern jazz.

More than 150 tubas, sousaphones and euphoniums are expected to play at Dallas’ 35th annual event.

I failed at the saxophone so I don’t need the 6 easiest brass instruments to play in a band.But maybe you do. Maybe you, unlike me, did not fail at saxophone. Maybe you will pass or even succeed!

Instruments once played by top-shelf brass players, ... Music by later composers, like Dvorák and Wagner, might require some internal discussion about whether to go old or modern.

Josh Landress is the owner of J. Landress Brass, a brass-instrument-restoration and -retail company in New York City.He walks us through how he and his team restore brass musical instruments. This ...