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Julius Mckee is a member of The Dirty Dozen Brass Band in New Orleans. He's also one of the premier sousaphone players in the country. In the first of a four-part series, Mckee discusses the joy of ...

Big black and white letters that spelled out "Preservation Hall New Orleans" made the jazz band's sousaphone hard to miss. That was, at least, until it went missing. "If you're trying to identify the ...

UPDATE: A happy ending for a Tacoma man whose rare musical instrument was stolen from his garage. In July, Pat Van Haren offered a reward for help finding a rare sousaphone he spent years restoring.

Members of the sousaphone section of the University of Illinois’ marching band, the Marching Illini, recently used their local celebrity for good when they ran the Illinois Marathon 5K—with their ...

LITTLETON, Colo. — Two marching band members from Chatfield High School are leading the way in raising money for new instruments. Sophomores Carter Musson and Sam Stephens are sousaphone players in ...

Fans may rave about the tuba players in the UC Berkeley Marching Band. Technically, though, they’re playing sousaphones — and the Cal Band calls them “basses.” Whatever you call them, though, those ...

Sousaphones, after all, are not sexy instruments. They’re big tubas, in essence, designed to wrap around a player’s body while standing or marching. They feature prominently in college marching bands ...

The Marching Illini sousaphone section will participate in the Christie Clinic Illinois 5k Run/Walk on Friday to raise money for Crisis Nursery — with their instruments. For nearly a decade, the ...

Big black and white letters that spelled out "Preservation Hall New Orleans" made the jazz band's sousaphone hard to miss. That was, at least, until it went missing. "If you're trying to identify the ...