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HepTones
Tuba artist Ralph Hepola unites with innovative masters in music from the 18th to the 21st century. Your audiences will agree – the HepTones are excellent and truly original!

Music from Centuries Past +
Jazz + Ballads + Blues + Latin

Mark Asche
Keyboard phenomenon Mark Asche performs with a wide variety of ensembles including the all-pro Cedar Avenue Big Band.

Kevin Washington
Drummer and Detroit native Kevin Washington has toured and recorded with national jazz artists including Cuban keyboardist Nachito Herrera.

Gary Raynor
Hailing from Long Island, bassist Gary Raynor has a long resume of experience from Sammy Davis Jr. to A Prairie Home Companion on National Public Radio.

Ralph Hepola
Click here for a profile of Ralph Hepola

Click on songs to preview
Click on songs to preview
Le Basque • Marin Marais (1656-1728)
This Is My Father’s World • English melody
Pipe Up! • R. Hepola, 2007

HepTones is an outgrowth of Ralph’s classical and jazz solo performances.
Solo performances in the Twin Cities Area with various ensembles

Over the Back Fence Radio Show with a broadcast audience of 50,000 on KFIL in southern Minnesota’s Bluff Country

The Tuba Concerto of British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, recorded and also performed live on the radio in Switzerland

Ralph soloed with Northwestern University Jazz Ensemble I, which twice won Best Big Band at the Notre Dame Jazz Festival

Ralph Hepola, Minneapolis & Saint Paul, Minnesota
e-mail: info@ralphhepola.com • telephone: (651) 488-1144