Rock Bands with Horns!

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.