Bixby/Bobo Bach books

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I bought volume 1 when I was 17 years old - only because Roger Bobo's name was associated with it.

The type set was not attractive, the pieces were difficult for my age 17 abilities, page turns are all completely lacking in consideration, it was written "as it sounds" (so it wasn't even easy to read and play on bass guitar), so I put it away.

I just found it (in the bottom of a drawer in an unsorted file cabinet) last night.

I've been playing through it with my franken-Holton B-flat (as yet another way to re-acclimate to B-flat, and improve my B-flat reading skills beyond where they were when I stopped reading sheet music and playing B-flat tuba - around the same time mentioned at the beginning of this post).

This book's worth a look, I assume vol. 2 is as well, and - clicking around the web - I discovered that the publisher is still in business. (Since it's over 50 years since publication, I wondered about "public domain" - as I was considering scanning/posting the nice bass clef baroque ornaments page here...but - surely - the copyright has been renewed, so...)

Didn't Bixby play tuba (and Miraphone contrabass trombone) with Don Ellis, or am I thinking of someone else?