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Based in New York City, making his way there via Chicago and Denver, Joe has been fortunate enough to work in just about every type of music imaginable. Joe started his performing career working professionally with brass quintets and orchestras while in undergraduate school in Colorado. After moving to Chicago to pursue a graduate degree, Joe became a busy freelance player. After several wonderful years of touring extensively with society bands, working with top jazz groups, freelancing in studio sessions, orchestras and chamber ensembles, as well as experimenting in rock groups, Joe left the Midwest and moved to his current home, NYC. There he continues to freelance as well as create new areas and sounds for the tuba. Joe has been recorded on TV shows and TV themes; rock, jazz, folk and spoken word albums; and performed with many notables, including drummer Bernard Purdie, fellow tubists Howard Johnson and Gravity, trumpeter Orbert Davis, trombonist Josh Roseman, drummer T.S. Monk and his Monk on Monk band, the late William Russo's Chicago Jazz Ensemble, the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, the Illinois Philharmonic; and residencies at the Bravo! Colorado Vail Valley Music Festival and the Birch Creek Performance Center. Joe also works as a composer, arranger, contractor and producer, receiving grants and commissions for both classical and jazz. Joe has provided interesting arrangements for many ensembles and has put together both recordings and live shows, including working as music director for both the Brooklyn Poetry Choir and the Bernard Purdie Quintet. Joe leads his own band: TubaJoe's TUBA LOVE, and also performs solo improvised performances at places such as New York City's New Museum of Contemporary Art. Joe also feels that it is imperative that each performer pass on what they have learned, previously maintaining a large studio of private students with select students receiving high marks at area festivals, principal chairs in honor bands and considerable collegiate scholarships. Joe continues to work as a consultant and clinician to school music programs, an adjudicator for music competitions, and as an instructor to world-class drum and bugle corps. Joe Exley’s own education has included private study with Rex Martin, Arnold Jacobs, Gene Pokorny, Jack Robinson and Kenneth Singleton. He holds a Master of Music Performance Degree from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Music Performance Degree from the University of Northern Colorado.
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