Brass Turtle Music

Route 66 Revelers

The High Desert Brass quintet

Chuck Campbell has played with many different kinds of groups in the Albuquerque area over the past quarter century or so. He currently plays with the groups listed at left. For 28 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 include the Albuquerque Concert Band, Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, the Shrine Concert Band, the Symphony Orchestra of Albuquerque, the Rio Rancho Community Band, the Nobles of Note, the Howling Dog Jazz Band, and Bill Biffle's Duke City jazz Band.

Currently, Chuck is president of the Rio Grande Jazz Society. Jazz Society meetings take usually place on the third Sunday of every month at the German-American Club in Albuquerque, 4821 Menaul Blvd. NE. 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. For more information, please visit the RGJS website

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.