From the Frisco Cricket article Yerba Buena Tuba by Hal Smith, Summer 1998

Ray Cadd (1957-)

Ray Cadd is also interested in a wide spectrum of music. He has played in many different settings, with the Bay City Jazz Band, Golden Eagle Jazz Band, Monrovia Olde Style Jazz Band, Hollywood Jazz Cats and others. However, Cadd excels in playing the "Firehouse Five" style. Cadd worked with the Frisco Syncopators when the band was patterned on the Firehouse Five. His playing added a great deal of authenticity to the band's sound and he went the extra mile to play helicon-the instrument George Bruns and Don Kinch played with the FH5 in later years. With the Syncopators, Cadd recorded a memorable version of Pagan Love Song,³³ which was a feature for both Bruns and Kinch with the Firehouse Five³⁴. Cadd also claims Bill Carrolll as a major inspiration on tuba and the influence is obvious when Cadd is heard in the Titanic Jazz Band, a formidable Southern California group which plays the music of Watters, Murphy and the Firehouse Five. Ray Cadd's great respect for the work of the San Francisco pioneers-and his ability to play their music with guts and integrity-make him one of the outstanding exponents of Yerba Buena Tuba, ably carrying on the tradition into the 21st Century.

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