Rock, Pop, Classic 70's "Horn Bands" from back in the day?

Tobylou8

@Newell-Post Here ya go!! Maybe the best, at least I listened to it the most. Wore out the cassette!!

Newell Post

@Tobylou8 You wore out the cassette, I wore out the LP.

tjcombo

Here's a local Aussie band from the mid-70's. We didn't get colour TV until 75 from memory. Anyhow it's monochrome and check the host of the TV show - Paul Hogan who I believe went on to perform with Crocodiles.
Kush used to put on a mighty live show with their 4 piece horn section and played at my old uni a few times.. I see one of the sax players, Ron Anderson playing at local jazz festivals. He's also a gun jazz pianist and I make an effort to see him play whenever he's on the program.

Kehaulani

Much nostalgia from Does Anybody etc., by Chicago. That is the first song on the radio I heard when I got back to America after four years in the Far East courteousy of Uncle Sam, 1970. Great tune/arrangement in it's own right.

Kehaulani

It might behoove us to continue using the Jazz category unless there exists a need for something more. Sure is a lot to work on, though.

BTAIM, I'm partial to this:

Lawler Bb

I’m a huge fan of this genre. My horn band covers a lot of music from this time period, but it’s proving to be more and more difficult to add to our following. People do not appreciate this music like they used to, and music isn’t written like this anymore.

Oh well, at least we have all of the great recordings and videos!

Three Sevens

Lots of work for our kind from 60s forward. Some of the names did not take horns on the road but elected to pick up players from localities where they had performances. I got to play with the Temptations back in the early 70s (!!!) and somehow got on the "Call List" ( many thanks to Harry Medema, other Mike and Jimi!) with The O'Jays many, many times from the early 80s thru the end of the 90s, including a really great "100 Black Men of America National Convention" show with so many well know personalities in attendence (my wife got to talk to several, including the late Don Cornelius!)... Again with The OJays on so many other very electric venues, once playing with them just a few days after the incredible TOP horns had played with them and most memorably, at the Krewe of Zulu Mardi Gras Ball in New Orleans! Another time with the OJays for a family day in the park with people as far as you could see enjoying the sounds (my then teen children and their friends won't ever forget this one... Kid In Play was featured as well!) sometime in the late 80s or early 90s. I got to perform with El Rey, the great Tito Puente at a very big National Latin Festival that left a permanent mark on my conscience. My regular weekend gig was with a very good, WORKING! Classic Rock and R&B cover band (during that entire period), working consistently thru the early 2000s. Those were the days! Youth was a nice ingredient that somehow seemed to slip away... but I got to live it and that's what being a trumpet player in that day was about! I got a taste, many had a feast! Before the digital age, horns got lots of work and with any luck will again! What goes around, comes around, or so I'm told!

Just a few thoughts from a while ago,
Mike

GeorgeB

@ButchA

Hey, Butch, the classic rock of the 70s came along after I had quit playing in '65 , but I was happy to hear brass being used in the Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears, etc. I would be lying if I said I was a fan of these bands, but I did appreciate how they used brass.

ButchA

@GeorgeB said in Rock, Pop, Classic 70's "Horn Bands" from back in the day?:

@ButchA

Hey, Butch, the classic rock of the 70s came along after I had quit playing in '65 , but I was happy to hear brass being used in the Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears, etc. I would be lying if I said I was a fan of these bands, but I did appreciate how they used brass.

Welcome aboard, George! Great to see you here, and thanks for the great comments about "horn sections" in pop/rock bands from back in the day!

Everyone: It is official... We now have GeorgeB amongst our ranks. The ultimate trumpet mentor of all, who has been there, done that, and seen it all!

GeorgeB

Thanks for that great welcome. Nice going with the new site.

Kehaulani

@Lawler-Bb said in Rock, Pop, Classic 70's "Horn Bands" from back in the day?:

I’m a huge fan of this genre. My horn band covers a lot of music from this time period, but it’s proving to be more and more difficult to add to our following.

I went from playing Soul Music in the 60s to last in Germany, which I found much less compartmentalized and more ecumenical than the U.S., playing Classic Soul, Disco and Pop. Nothing like it, IMO.

ButchA

@GeorgeB said in Rock, Pop, Classic 70's "Horn Bands" from back in the day?:

Thanks for that great welcome. Nice going with the new site.

You mentioned Blood Sweat & Tears before... What an amazing, legendary, band!

Check out their classic song "Smiling Phases".which was originally written by the rock band Traffic. BST took the song and jazzed it up with their incredible horn section!

N1684T

@ButchA This song from my youth also gets me going;) Horns galore!

Vulgano Brother

Tobylou8

That reminds me of the Brecker Brothers. The picture is... this blaring while I'm pulling into the high school parking lot in a '54 Olds Super 88!!

Kehaulani

Although I love Horn Bands, I particularly enjoy the use of horns in a more integrated sound like in various colors, integration, et. More from a compositional attitude. Matrix: Clea.

Tobylou8

Can't have a thread like this without this classic, it just wouldn't be right!!

Doodlin'

Here's a gem. These cats can groove. I have the LP.

Tobylou8

@Doodlin Nice! Honestly never heard of them! Thanks, nice harmonies!

Three Sevens

That's a new one for me as well! The prints of many of their predecessors and contemporaries are evident throughout and the Crosby, Stills and Nash vocal influence is one of the standouts! Reminds me of my early college dorm room diversions!

Mike