![]() Equally at home on the concert stage, in a dive bar, or at a street parade, Tuba Gin has performed at the Carolina Music Museum, the Westminster Music Center, and various breweries, bars, and parties public and private across the upstate.Ĭoleman Alexander studied classical tuba at Greenville’s own SC Governor’s School for the Arts and at Furman University, where he earned a Tuba Performance degree in 2015. With a repertoire ranging from quirky original tunes to old-time spirituals and from trad-jazz favorites to Elvis rockers, Tuba Gin shares its intoxicating musical cocktail with any audience. ![]() Based in Greenville, South Carolina, Tuba Gin plays a spicy gumbo of music, drawing from the traditional New Orleans jazz of Louis Armstrong and the classic blues of Bessie Smith, and incorporating the habeñera and clavé rhythms of the Caribbean, the Charleston, and New Orleans brass band funk, as well as the insistent back-beat of the blues, gospel, and rock and roll. the irresistible beat and syncopated thump of a Bourbon Street Parade on Mardis Gras day… All these simmer together in a radium roux, electrifying the sound that is Tuba Gin. an infectious swing propelling the aeronautics of Lindy-hop dancers. the jangly guitar spilling out from a roadside juke-joint. the sultry growl of a plunger-muted trumpet in a back-alley speakeasy. ![]() The sinuous wisp of a clarinet from a balcony in the French quarter. ![]()
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