Frank Tusa has been played on NTS in shows including We Are… w/ Paul Camo, featured first on 5 October 2015. Songs played include Mabel's Mood and Gipsy Song.

Frank Tusa (b. April 1, 1947) is an American jazz double-bassist, composer, educator.

Tusa played guitar before switching to bass at age ten. He worked in a Broadway pit orchestra and then played while serving in the Army. Tusa worked with Paul Bley (1970-71), Horacee Arnold (1971), and in the Open Sky trio with Dave Liebman and Rakalam Bob Moses in 1972-74. Early in the 1970s he also played with Dave Holland, Collin Walcott, and Dom Um…