Tuba player, composer and educator Joseph Daley studied at the Manhattan School of Music attaining a master’s degree in music education. He has received fellowships in music composition from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Music Omi and Geraldine R Dodge Foundation. Mr. Daley has performed and recorded with Muhal Richard Abrams, Bill Cole, Far East Side Band, Sam Rivers, Ellery Eskelin, Liberation Music Orchestra, Gil Evans, Carla Bley, Taj Mahal, Jayne Cortez, George Gruntz, Gravity, Ebony Brass Quintet, Paradigm Shift, Dave Douglas, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Craig Harris, Spider Monkey Strings and Hazmat Modine. In 2011, he released the album The Seven Deadly Sins that received rave reviews and made several best of 2011 lists. Since then, Daley has produced four other acclaimed projects for his JoDa Music label (Seven Heavenly Virtues, Portraits, Trayvon Martin Suite and Tuba Trio Chronicles) while continuing his sideman duties with groups such as The Liberation Music Orchestra, Bill Cole’s Untempered Ensemble, Gravity and Hazmat Modine.