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Ralph Hepola, Springfield, MO

Missouri Arts Council picks tubaist Ralph Hepola for April Featured Artists

posted April 21, 2021   category » music, tuba,

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“Ralph Hepola’s Tuba Carves Out A Place For The Much-Maligned Horn In Modern Jazz.”

posted May 20, 2024   category » music, tuba,

“The virtuoso tuba player leads his quartet through a set of his freewheeling originals, playing with remarkable fluency as the lead instrument.”

– Jazz Promo Services, based in New York and part of the Big Apple Jazz Scene for more than twenty-five years, published on All About Jazz, the world’s biggest jazz website

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“Veteran Tuba Master Ralph Hepola Creates A Dynamic, Supremely Soulful New Lead Voice For The Idiom On His Eclectic Debut Album ‘Tuba’” by Jonathan Widran

posted May 20, 2024

As a veteran music journalist, Jonathan Widran has been a regular contributor, reviewer, feature writer, columnist and/or editor for Music Connection, Wine and Jazz Magazine, Jazziz Magazine, All Music Guide, Singer/Songwriter Universe, SmoothJazz.com, Billboard.com, iTunes, Amazon.com and the Los Angeles Times. This article published on All About Jazz, the world’s biggest jazz website.

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“Ralph Hepola Makes A Strong Case For The Tuba As A Lead Instrument In Jazz” by Scott Yanow

posted May 20, 2024   category » music, tuba,

Scott Yanow is a jazz journalist, jazz historian, and the author of thirteen books: Trumpet Kings; All Music Guide to Jazz; The Jazz Singers; The Great Jazz Guitarists: The Ultimate Guide; Afro-Cuban Jazz; Jazz On Film; Jazz On Record – The First Sixty Years; Jazz: A Regional Exploration; Bebop; Swing; Classic Jazz; Duke Ellington; Jazz Lives – Till We Shall Meet And Never Part.

Mr. Yanow is a regular contributor to eight magazines: Downbeat, Jazziz, New York City Jazz Record, Los Angeles Jazz Scene, Jazz Artistry Now, Jazz Monthly and The Syncopated Times and The Jazz Rag (from England). He has written over 850 liner notes, and approximately 20,000 record reviews.

This article published on All About Jazz, the world’s biggest jazz website

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“Ralph Hepola is a Scandinavian-American improvising tubaist. A musician who plays the language of contemporary jazz on the tuba. Today’s Song of the Day is “Roots and Wings”, a laid-back funk number from Hepola’s outstanding 2019 disc “Tuba”.”

posted March 17, 2023   category » music, tuba,

-  Brian Zimmerman, JAZZIZ jazziz.com

JAZZIZ magazine and jazziz.com - JAZZIZ has been called “the voice of a new jazz culture, a culture it helped create,” and over the past 35 years has earned the reputation for its undisputed authority on jazz and style.

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“Tu like a tuba, fufu like a funker and gro like a groover. This tune has Herbie fusion magic all over it.” 4 stars

posted April 17, 2023   category » music, tuba,

- Fiona Ord-Shrimpton, Editor/Curator of Track of the Day on All About Jazz, the world’s biggest jazz website, writing about Roots and Wings from the new recording Ralph Hepola - Tuba 

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Take Five With Ralph Hepola

posted June 6, 2024

published on All About Jazz, the world’s biggest jazz website

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“Tubaist Ralph Hepola Awarded Recording Grant From The Southwest Minnesota Arts Council”

posted June 6, 2024

published on All About Jazz, the world’s biggest jazz website

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