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Fyah in the soul
Jazz tubist THEON CROSS talks to Chris Searle about ‘the vibrations of human connection’ inspiring his latest album
Innovator: Theon Cross

LONDON-BORN tuba virtuoso Theon Cross has a powerful grasp of his instrument’s jazz ancestry and you can hear it on the rampant bass pulse of the rumbustiously beautiful album Fyah.

He started his musical journey listening to sousaphone players in New Orleans brass bands such as the Dirty Dozen, playing along to the basslines on their CDs.

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