Rock Bands with Horns!

[Y2Buddy]

Well ofcourse - Chicago

Thoroughgood and the Destroyers - His albums don't go him justice. The Sax in that band rocks. See him live if you ever het the chance.

Pink Floyd - Momentry Lapse of Reason tour, I don't know who toured with the band but I wish I did. Tom Scott played in the studio for the recording, but he didn't tour.

Eagles - David Sanborn is just, well..he's just great. Has anybody ever heard of the album "Pro and Cons of Hitch hiking"?

Commitments - If you haven't seen this movie, then you should.

Kenny G - I know what your thinking. But this guy in concert is backed up by a rock band with an awesome bass player, and Kenny G ain't in concert what you hear on the radio.

Jethro Tull - I don't know, a flute is a horn, right?

[lex]

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND :cool:

[gutter]

OZZY!!! Oh, you don't mean those kind of horns.

[mathmajors]

Blood, Sweat, and Tears - shared a producer with Chicago.

[magnus]

Tower of Power
Earth Wind and Fire
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
any blues band worth its weight

[bunkyboy]

Red Hot Chili Peppers and FishBone

[magnus]

Morphine
don't imagine James Brown, Parliament or D'Angelo count

[TW1GGY]

Reel Big Fish

This band is so much fun.. All their songs scream summer parties!!! I can't wait to see them this summer on the warped tour.

[jazzredcat]

The Crusaders
Average White Band
Sting

[lex]

holy cow! i love the crusaders! forgot about them. joe sample used to be with them.

average white band....didnt they do "cut the cake"?

thanx, jazzredcat! cool. am gonna go dig up my crusaders right now. i got street life somewhere... :cool:

[magnus]

yeah, they did cut the cake in addition to their

I didn't know we were adding ska and swing bands. We can pretty much include all of them by definition.

Prince...Maceo, Candy Dulfer, Najee, you can do worse than work with Prince but they hold their own.

[lex]

good call on that najee, mVm! man...there is another i cant think of the name right now, but they were in same category as tower of power and earth wind and fire...horns galore! i gotta think hard. :(

i want to say three dog night....but i know it's not it.

[magnus]

might be thinking Chicago but someone said that.

[mathmajors]

Originally posted by lex
holy cow! i love the crusaders! forgot about them. joe sample used to be with them.

average white band....didnt they do "cut the cake"?

thanx, jazzredcat! cool. am gonna go dig up my crusaders right now. i got street life somewhere... :cool:

'Pick Up the Pieces' is the AWB tune you'll hear on the radio more often than not.

[mathmajors]

I like some of the old Stevie Wonder songs with horns - 'Sir Duke' comes to mind.

And, of course, 'Superstitious'.

[jazzredcat]

average white band....didnt they do "cut the cake"?

Don't recall the "cake" tune.
I believe their biggie was "Pick Up The Pieces."
They impressed me, also, by making a distinction between a
bass guitar and an electric bass on their liner notes.

Also: Would/was Chuck[macoroni]Mangione considered to be in this realm?
I know he wasn't/isn't pop, but he crossed over into that audience appeal. I liked his group in the early days when
Gary Niewood[sp]was with the group.

[Y2Buddy]

AWB's best album I think was School Boy Crush Live. Pick up the Pieces is more like a jam session. Then they do one of the most recorded songs ever better than say...everybody BUT Marvin Gaye...I Heard it through the Grape Vine. Oh man, now I'm jammin'

[Y2Buddy]

Hey, I saw Paul Simon in concert, great show by the way, and he had some horns. A lotta drums too!

[jazzredcat]

Although he may be considered an act "unto himself,"
Micheal Franks used horns very often.:firedevil

[magnus]

I ahve a song ...Trey Anastasio - Burlap Sack and Pumps - good horn stuff. The thing is, I don't know what or why this was put out or what it relates to. Trey has Phish and Oysterhead - what's this he's doing and when did he do it?

[Patti]

I love bands with horns. Train just did that song drops of jupiter with a mini orchestra, very good song imo.

David Sanborn is just the best. And I remember seeing Phil Drescal ( I know that isn't how he spells his last name ) about 10 years ago. He was by himself and he played for about two hours, couple of small breaks and he would stop and talk quite a bit also. But he actually moved me to tears. I was not ready for that show to end, I could listen to him for days.

Oh yeah what was that big black guys' name that played for E Street Band?

[magnus]

First name was Clarence I think. I should know this, but he was only OK. But yeah I thought of the E st. band today in regard to this.

Anyway, Patti, you familiar with Mike Brecker? James Carter?

Lenny Pickett? Oh, shit. Lenny Pickett.

[SandMan]

Voltage Brothers - best rendition of EWF I have ever seen. :cool:

[wossa]

Originally posted by Patti
Oh yeah what was that big black guys' name that played for E Street Band?

Clarence Clemmons

[jazzredcat]

"I love bands with horns. Train just did that song drops of jupiter with a mini orchestra, very good song imo...."

David Sanborn is just the best. And I remember seeing Phil Drescal ( I know that

Absolutely nothing against Sanborn, but if you like horns, I'd suggest "acquiring" a taste for jazz, per se. Wynton Marsalis, Micheal Brecker, Count Basie would be as good places as any to start....Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, etc.

[magnus]

I always liked Ellington for horns. Carney, specifically. Didn't they have Hawkins a while? Or Webster? I'm blanking.

At various times, had some of the better sidemen in history...Paul Gonsalves, Johnny Hodges, who else?

mmm...James Carter.

[jazzredcat]

I'm quirky when it comes to Ellington. I love doing his(and Strayhorn's)stuff; and, I like hearing others do his music.
But I can't stand the Ellington band. Particularly the vibrato they use.
I like his piano work, though.:cool:

[muff_spelunker]

Originally posted by Patti
Train just did that song drops of jupiter with a mini orchestra, very good song imo.

I like the song, but from the very first time I heard it I thought the strings were cheesy. I thought it would have been better without them. JMHO

David Sanborn is just the best.

You said it all right there, sista. I saw him at the Paladium when he was touring for "Another Hand". He didn't play any of his R&B/crossover stuff, just pure hard jazz. I'll never forget that warm summer evening listening to Dave serenade me with jazz.


Oh yeah what was that big black guys' name that played for E Street Band?

This guy popped into my head when I read the thread topic. Thanks for bringing him up.

[mathmajors]

Originally posted by magnus
Tower of Power
Earth Wind and Fire


Believe it or not I thought about this thread the other day as I was listening to a funk CD I compiled from my mom's CD collection.

And she had a Blood, Sweat, & Tears CD that had songs on it I'd heard parts of, but didn't know it was them.

And she had a Chicago greatest hits that will probably only delay me picking up more of their albums on CD. I've still got Chicago III, which has 'The Approaching Storm' on it. Fantastic.

[VOR]

Nobody has mentioned War or Kool and the Gang. Summer Madness still give me shivers. what I can hear of it, most of the synthesizer stuff is gone.

[VOR]

Wish I could find an album by the group that hugh masekela put together in 1967. They were really tight.

[Piper]

Originally posted by magnus
I ahve a song ...Trey Anastasio - Burlap Sack and Pumps - good horn stuff. The thing is, I don't know what or why this was put out or what it relates to. Trey has Phish and Oysterhead - what's this he's doing and when did he do it?

Trey's solo side project. Big band concept. Right up your alley.

Horns? Doesn't get much better than the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

[jazzbluescat]

Originally posted by VOR
Wish I could find an album by the group that hugh masekela put together in 1967. They were really tight.

Try something with "Grazing In The Grass" in it.

[wossa]

Steely Dan has lots of tunes with horns.

Several good Doobie Brothers songs with horns as well

[jazzbluescat]

Originally posted by wossa
Steely Dan has lots of tunes with horns.

Several good Doobie Brothers songs with horns as well

Yep.
BTW the last recording the Doobie Brothers did featured a very good tenor sax player. I remember because I learned the tune hoping the band that I was in at the time would do it.
We didn't. :(

[magnus]

Originally posted by Piper


Trey's solo side project. Big band concept. Right up your alley.

Horns? Doesn't get much better than the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

NO doubt. D12 BB turned out the Visulite last year.

I don't know much of anything about Trey's band but that one song, two different copies, has some good shit on it. I could get that much more into Phish if they had different instrumentation.


VoR, good call on Summer Madness.

[magnus]

Originally posted by Patti
I love bands with horns. Train just did that song drops of jupiter with a mini orchestra, very good song imo.

David Sanborn is just the best.

Train is great with horn. Used to gig with a couple of their songs, and a big fan of what they do overall. But yeah, they can overorchestrate. They're playing rock, not trip-hop.

Sanborn's a hell of a player - if I'm thinking of the right story, he only plays alto because one arm's a lot shorter than the other or he had some sort of injury. But he's very, very bright and kinda sweet - where I like darker, more breathy timbre. Which given that, it's a wonder I lasted as long as I did in funk, because I'm a square peg.