Brass Turtle Music

Route 66 Revelers

Chuck Campbell has played with many different kinds of groups in the Albuquerque area over the past 30 years or so. His current main bands are the Route 66 Revelers, an 8-piece Dixieland band, and the High Desert Brass, a quintet with a varied repertoire. For 30 years he has played tuba, euphonium, and trombone with Die Polka-schlingel, a group popular for Oktoberfests all over New Mexico and in adjacent states. Other groups with which he has played in concerts, parades, or dances (besides those listed at left) include the Albuquerque Concert Band, Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, the Shrine Concert Band, the Symphony Orchestra of Albuquerque, the Rio Rancho Community Band, and the Nobles of Note. Because he's half of the people in Albuquerque who play Dixieland tuba, Chuck also plays ocasionally with the Howling Dog Jazz Band, Bill Biffle's Duke City jazz Band. Charlie Eberle's ABQ Jazz Band, and Jazz a la Carte.

Chuck is past president and current treasurer/webflunky of the Rio Grande Jazz Society. Jazz Society meetings take usually place on the third Sunday of every month at 4821 Menaul Blvd. NE in Albuquerque. The usual format is a featured band followed by four jam sets--two swing, two dixie. Local and visiting musicians are encouraged to come jam; jazz lovers lovers are encouraged to come listen and dance.

He has studied privately with Hugh McMillen, formerly director of bands at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and with Debra Taylor, principal trombonist with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra.

See Chuck's arsenal of instruments.