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…it’s time to break out the Philadelphia Brass Ensemble album.

It’s a yearly reminder of how awesome Mr. Torchinsky’s sound was. Still my second favorite “tuba sound” after Mr. Deck. These two gentlemen define what a tuba should sound like in my head.

Always a pleasure to listen to this album.

That is playing in my shop as I type this. It is easily one of the all-time greatest Christmas albums. Even stores play it in the background. (Well, the *good* stores that do not punish their employees by playing "All I Want for Christmas is You" all day.)

Cool. Looking for it.

Digging down the rabbit hole of the Philadelphia Brass on youtube, also found this one. Rings true as I can't count how many times I was asked if I ever thought of playing a smaller instrument when Abe was asked. Cool King rotary horn it looks like.

That is an awesome clip - thank you for posting it!

FWIW, watching this clip from the Mike Douglas Show brings back some great memories of how television used to be……(IIRC, it aired on NBC at 4 in the afternoon).

…..and those Robert King arrangements that always seemed to add an integral baritone horn part (the rumor was that he was a baritone horn player…….)

We all have our personal favorites.

Yorkboy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 12:42 am

FWIW, watching this clip from the Mike Douglas Show brings back some great memories of how television used to be……(IIRC, it aired on NBC at 4 in the afternoon).

Philly had some good ones, Mike was on Walnut street down town.

The Philadelphia Brass album is full of tastefully arranged standards done with excellence. Really great stuff.

My other go-to Christmas album is the London Brass.

And some Chanticleer thrown in.

And I recently acquired this :