Baadsvik/ Benavidez/ Lima - StorytellersTuba virtuoso Justin Benavidez is heard in three new tuba concertos, two recent solos, and stunning transcriptions of works by Gustav Mahler and Claude Debussy. Benavidez is currently Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Florida State University and performs as principal tuba of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. In the summer he is on the faculty at the Round Top Music Festival in Texas. With his playing noted for it's "tremendous virtuosity and

he composed trio sonatas

These twelve tracks aren't just the sound of a band surviving

Victony and Ladysmith Black Mambazo

The songs on this album are all settings of poems by various poets (listed below in the track listings)

Ben Selvin & His Orchestra - The Hits Collection 1919-34

and the bop until you drop rhythms are compelling to hear and will satisfy you from your ears to your feet

it is an apt and timely reminder of the power of the music

" Processing the past

known as Francoeur the Elder

Spencer Leigh

shedding a new light on these works

Greg Funfgeld - Songs of Hope