Tom Heasley

Tom Heasley began as a tuba player in the San Francisco Bay Area avant-garde scene, performing contemporary music and supplying the odd tuba backing for various jazz and rock projects. At the turn of the millennium he started to play solo using a rack of delays and digital loops, developed an adventurous ambient sound, and turned his career around, releasing acclaimed CDs on Hypnos and Innova Recordings. On these, his music has much more to do with J.A. Deane and Robert Rich than with other experimental tuba players like Joe Daley and Oren Marshall. Heasley follows the typica...