Favorite Music
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Not known as a horn band, but this is my ALL TIME FAVORITE BAND... Even beats out any jazz band that comes to mind:
This is a little known song by the band that I played with my Rock Band in my college days. I arranged harmonizing horn parts where the synthesizer plays in this original cut, as well as wrote in some horn punches to funk it up a bit more. Love it at 2:38 when the song is ending and the singer begins a discussion regarding trying to find the bridge. In our live performance we really extended this section, with additional horn voiceings and are lead singer enguating the audience into the conversation. It was an amazing crowd pleaser.
BTW Here was the pic of my Rock Band that played an amazing rendition of this song during my College days. If you are trying to identify me, yes, I am the most handsome one in the picture!
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For Trumpeters, especially. Really nice stuff. German trumpeter Mathias Eick:
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Other than Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven?
Mahavishnu Orchestra w/ John Mclaughlin doing the album Visions of the Emerald Beyond especially the last track On the Way Home to Earth. The solo is just killer. -
This is always great.
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@neal085 Wow, I had never heard that song by Satchmo. Everything about it is such a departure for the great one. Beautiful. Thanks.
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I thought I knew most of Louis Armstrong's work but neal085's post of We Have All The Time In The World piqued my interest so I did some research on it. It was released in 1969 on a 45rpm single ( Pretty Little Missy on the flip side ) and was the featured song in the James Bond ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE film, one of the few Bond films I missed seeing.
This was sort of a come back for Louis who had been seriously ill for some time and was unable to work much. Most importantly, this apparently was the last time he played his trumpet in a recording studio ( 2 years later he would die of a heart attack ).
Being released as a single on 45 without much pomp and ceremony was probably the reason I was unaware of the song.
1960s King Super 20 Silversonic, 1940 Olds Recording, 1942 Buescher True Tone 400 ,1999 Conn Vintage One Bb trumpet, A 1952 Selmer Paris, A 2020 Getzen 400 and a Manchester Brass ACB custom pro Bb trumpet, a 1962 Conn Victor 5A Cornet.
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@Dr-GO Can't see it in USA. Blocked by some company that owns it in an unnamed foreign country. Which one of those boys in the band are you?
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Just some hacks jamming away an evening ...
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@GeorgeB I'd never seen that movie either, but that song probably makes it worth watching.
The tune popped up on my Spotify feed one day and immediately caused me to wonder how I'd never heard it before.
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@GeorgeB said in Favorite Music:
I thought I knew most of Louis Armstrong's work but neal085's post of We Have All The Time In The World piqued my interest so I did some research on it. It was released in 1969 on a 45rpm single ( Pretty Little Missy on the flip side ) and was the featured song in the James Bond ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE film, one of the few Bond films I missed seeing.
This was sort of a come back for Louis who had been seriously ill for some time and was unable to work much. Most importantly, this apparently was the last time he played his trumpet in a recording studio ( 2 years later he would die of a heart attack ).
Being released as a single on 45 without much pomp and ceremony was probably the reason I was unaware of the song.
The song was better known in Britain. I've always found it very moving since time was one thing Louis didn't have much left of.
And written by that slightly more famous son of York, John Barry of course.
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@Seth-of-Lagos
Oh, yes, the song is indeed very moving. Now that I have the link to the song I will listen to it often. Louis was one of the few celebrity players I have met in person after a concert and never forgot what he said after I told him I was a trumpet player, his eyes widened and gave that big smile, saying: Next time bring your horn. No wonder the world loved him. -
@Seth-of-Lagos John Barry and "favorite music" go together extremely well IMO.
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@Seth-of-Lagos Saw E.C "attempt" to play Layla in Melbourne, Australia in 1975. Perhaps not at his physical best that night, but at least I got to see him. As a matter of interest, who was the dude giving percussionists a bad name?He at least provided light entertainment for the rest of the band. Never the less, what a line up.
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@chelpres said in Favorite Music:
@Seth-of-Lagos Saw E.C "attempt" to play Layla in Melbourne, Australia in 1975. Perhaps not at his physical best that night, but at least I got to see him. As a matter of interest, who was the dude giving percussionists a bad name?He at least provided light entertainment for the rest of the band. Never the less, what a line up.
Regards,TomRay Cooper (once of Maynard's band, currently Elton John). I suspect a few of them had overdone the Harpic a bit before that show...
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@Seth-of-Lagos Must look him up. Many thaks
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This is the song that got me started (no pun intended) on trumpet. Al Hirt playing I Can't Get Started.
