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Tubby the Tuba," story by Paul Tripp, music by George Kleinsinger. The Cupcake Philharmonic Orchestra, Mike Roylance, Tubby the Tuba and valve trombone, David Tripp, narrator, Carolyn Newberger, Peepo the Piccolo and flute, Amanda Roylance, trumpet, Eli Newberger, piano and synthesizer, and special guests, Marylou Speaker Churchill, violin, and Mark Churchill, cello. Performed at St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA, on May 9, 2007 (the movie opens in a new window; please be patient while it loads).

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The Cupcake Philharmonic Orchestra
From left to right, Carolyn Newberger, Eli Newberger, David Tripp, Amelia Roylance, Amanda Roylance, Mike Roylance
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To purchase a copy of "Tubby the Tuba," (Dutton Children's Books, 2006) that includes a CD of the wonderful 1946 recording, narrated by Paul Tripp, who awakened one night with the idea for "Tubby," please click here

Tubby the Tuba
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"When You Wish Upon a Star," Mike Roylance, tuba, Eli Newberger, piano. Performed at St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA, on May 9, 2007.

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When You Wish Upon a Star
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"Lullaby for Amelia" for Amelia Roylance, by Howard Frazin. Tubas: Mike Roylance and Eli Newberger. Performed at St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA, on May 9, 2007..

Lullaby for Amelia
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"Reverberations for Two Tubas and Strings," by Howard Frazin. Mike Roylance and Eli Newberger with the Laurel String Quartet (violinists Annie Rabbat and Ying Xue, violist Sarah Darling, and cellist Song-Ie Do) and Karl Doty, contrabass. Premiere of the version for two Tubas, string quartet, and contrabass, performed at St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA, on May 9, 2007. (The world premiere of the concerto for two tubas and chamber orchestra took place in Faneuil Hall, Boston, on March 18, 2007, with the Boston Classical Orchestra, Stephen Lipsitt, conductor, who commissioned the work.)

Eli Reverberations
Reverberations for Two Tubas and Strings
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Jazz Tuber Trio playing "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" on the November 6, 2005, Liz Walker Sunday TV show; Ted Casher, clarinet, Jimmy Mazzy, banjo, Eli Newberger, tuba.

Eli with the New Black Eagle Jazz Band
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
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Tuba-piano performance of George Gershwin's second piano prelude, recorded at the Johnson Theater, University of New Hampshire, on September 20, 2004.

Eli with the New Black Eagle Jazz Band
Gershwin's Second Piano Prelude
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"Mr. Newberger's tuba is often surprisingly light and lyrical as it sings melodies softly over the banjo's backing. It has unusual expressive range. On Ma Rainey's "Jelly Bean Blues," it sounds utterly forlorn, and on Jelly Roll Morton's "Chicago Breakdown," it has the attack of a charging bull elephant. Gershwin's Prelude in C sharp minor, is played by Mr. Newberger as a whimsical gimmick - a duet with himself as he fingers the tuba valves with one hand and plays the piano with the other. Forgetting the tour de force and simply taking it at face value, it is a charming and remarkably unaffected performance."

-- John S. Wilson, The New York Times

To read further reviews of the CD "Shake it Down," by Jimmy Mazzy and Eli Newberger, that includes "Jelly Bean Blues," "Chicago Breakdown, " and the original audio recording of this piano-tuba version of the Gershwin Prelude, or to purchase a copy, please click here.

1996 performance of the M 'N' M (Mazzy-Newberger-Muranyi) Trio at the Sancy Snow Jazz Festival, Mt. Dore, France. Joe Muranyi, known best for his work with Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars in the 1960's, is featured on clarinet.

Eli with the New Black Eagle Jazz Band

Louisiania
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Summertime
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Poor Butterfly
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"Adding Joe Muranyi to the mix with Mazzy and Newberger creates many more possibilities, arrangement-wise, and they take full advantage of the opportunities. Muranyi is a musician who has absorbed little bits from the styles of many, many great clarinetists from the history of pre-bop jazz to create his own whole, original style. Facile, imaginative and often exciting, yet always fitting in with the group, he never uses gratuitous and unnecessary technical displays to impress his audience, relying instead on musical substance."

-- Ted Des Plantes, The Mississippi Rag

To read the notes by S. Frederick Starr on the CD "Halfway to Heaven," by the M'N'M Trio, or to purchase a copy, please click here

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Perdido Street Blues
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"Perdido Street Blues," from a performance on November 11, 1990, with the New Black Eagle Jazz Band. The Sticky Wicket Pub in Hopkinton, MA, closed its doors shortly afterward, ending the Band's 19-year engagement. Musicians include the Band's co-founder, Tommy Sancton, clarinet, and Brian Ogilvie, tenor sax.

1975 performance of Eli and the New Black Eagle Jazz Band playing "The Mooche" (the movies will open in a new window; please be patient while they load).

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The Mooche
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"One of the most interesting pieces on this new release is a treatment of Duke Ellington's "The Mooche" that milks the tune for all its ominous misterioso possibilities and gives Eli Newberger an opportunity to play one of the raunchiest tuba solos ever recorded"

-- John S. Wilson, High Fidelity

Eli with the New Black Eagle Jazz Band

Keyhole Blues
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Original Jelly Roll Blues
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You're Not the Only Oyster in the Stew
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  Jersey Lightning
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New Black Eagle Jazz Band, playing in 1989 for the 100th anniversary celebration of the yearly midsummer Marblehead, MA, Race Week competition, that still attracts yachtsmen from around the world.  

 

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