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Ralph Hepola, Springfield, MO

My colleagues and I were honored to record last week with legendary bassist Bob Bowman who recorded with Freddie Hubbard, Carmen McRae, Bud Shank, Karrin Allyson, Bobby Watson, Steve Houghton, John Stowell, Bob Sheppard, Steve Allee, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabakin Big Band.

Here we are in front of the 9-foot Steinway grand at Springfield’s Nick Sibley Music in southwest Missouri: bassist Bob Bowman, drummer Marty Morrison, pianist Kyle Aho, tubaist Ralph Hepola.

Tracks and videos will drop soon!

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photo by Erin Gamble

Tubaist Ralph Hepola will serve up contemporary jazz, fusion, blues and instrumental rock on Friday, August 12, 2022, 6:00-9:00pm at the Iron District, 1599 Iron Street, North Kansas City, Missouri 64116.

Iron District is a container park featuring food vendors, a full bar and shopping. Just 5 minutes from Downtown KC. A good time is closer than you think! Come out for a date night, group hangout, or family outing.

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Downtown Springfield’s favorite monthly arts event featuring local artists, live music, art demonstrations, fun, food, and a few surprises the first Friday of every month.

Musician Ralph Hepola is the June Featured Artist at The Vineyard.

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Today’s the day! We’re Video of the Day on All About Jazz, the world’s biggest jazz website: tubaist Ralph Hepola performing his composition “This Goes Like This” with keyboardist Kyle Aho & drummer Marty Morrison-both of  Missouri State University Jazz Faculty, along with bassist David Dove.

Here it is. This goes like this.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/media/video-this-goes-like-this

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by Gamble Marketing Group, posted 03/17/23

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“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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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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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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-  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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- 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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