# Music with awesome brass parts **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217 "2010-03-21T06:16:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/21 "2010-03-21T21:44:13Z")
‘March to the Scaffold’ from Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. [Youtube clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb7BJQ7LAlo) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/22 "2010-03-21T21:50:30Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > … I realized that horns could rock as hard as any gee-tar. > > Also, surprised no one’s mentioned early Chicago. Or _ **CHASE** _. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/23 "2010-03-21T22:06:40Z")
Oingo Boingo ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/24 "2010-03-21T22:14:11Z")
Well Chicago has already been mentioned, so my next idea would be Ska music…in general…well some of it crosses over into a more punk or reggae feel, but most of it has a good strong brass section. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/25 "2010-03-21T22:23:59Z")
This has brass, and probably just about every other material every made, [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar_v-SIeh8w) Brass can be very naughty, probably NSFW, admit it, you don’t think of anything except for one thing only when you hear this, [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7YdMaZRVUU8/hqdefault.jpg "DAVID ROSE THE STRIPPER.wmv") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YdMaZRVUU8) ---
**Author:** ![vdgg81](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3d9bf3/32.png) [@vdgg81](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vdgg81)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/26 "2010-03-22T03:10:33Z")
Miles Davis has so much great stuff I wouldn’t even know where to begin, though [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPL7BExSQU) may be a start. From the Gil Evans albums I always loved both [Summertime](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N090STPx-2M&feature=related) and his version of the [Concierto de Aranjuez](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVZq9Lk2hYQ). ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/27 "2010-03-22T03:34:53Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Or **Blood Sweat and Tears** first album “Child Is Father To The Man”. Just a warmup for the following two BS&T albums. While David Clayton-Thomas added a lot, the horns got even better and the mixes less muddy. How about Paul Simon’s _Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes?_ ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/28 "2010-03-22T03:40:07Z")
Pretty much anything by Herb Alpert or Louis Prima. But here’s an obscure one: there’s a song called **“Come Follow the Band”** from the musical Barnum. I once heard an instrumental version played mostly by brass. In the beginning it was just a tuba, joined I think by a clarinet. Then others came in. Would love to find that again. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/29 "2010-03-22T03:44:08Z")
> [@Sidney Evgeni Jordan](#): > > As alluded to above, here’s some John Phillip Sousa I used to own a pair of cufflinks that Sousa had given to an old friend of my family. He gave them to me in return for some work I did for him. They were beautifiul, made of ivory and silver. Being a teenager I wore them out one drunken night and lost them. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/30 "2010-03-22T08:02:47Z")
Stevie Wonder: [Sir Duke](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MIjsANK_LQ) ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/31 "2010-03-22T12:11:28Z")
The brass band traditions from the Balkans are amazing - full of energy. Wonderful music to get drunk to. Examples: [Fanfara Ciocarlia](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MsWl7eCs_E) or [Goran Bregovic](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtX-V4OE50Y). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/32 "2010-03-22T12:51:29Z")
> [@Sidney Evgeni Jordan](#): > > As alluded to above, here’s some John Phillip Sousa > > [Semper Fidelis](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--SVyKdx8u0&feature=related) > [Stars and Stripes Forever](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znEePD1nJxo) > [@Airman Doors](#): > > There are an endless number of marches with awesome brass parts. Believe it or not, it was just this year – this year – that I learned that my favorite “Sousa march” wasn’t a Sousa march after all. And the way the low brass comes in at 1:44 in [“National Emblem March” (Vermonter E.E. Bagley)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpRwpJUBQAE) is thrilling to me. (Read the YouTube comments in the “more” section.) And I must add a favorite Miles Davis/Gil Evans collaboration [Blues For Pablo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoU1drxfdYM&feature=related) and others from _Miles Ahead_. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/33 "2010-03-22T13:25:00Z")
There’s always the [Canadian Brass](http://www.canadianbrass.com/). [Flight of the Bumblebee](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR_GVUWllP4) ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/34 "2010-03-22T13:30:10Z")
Another one: [Mars, Bringer of War](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I) from Holst’s “The Planets” suite. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/35 "2010-03-22T16:31:37Z")
Hah! I get to be the one to mention one of the greatest brass-driven songs of the 70s: “My Old School” from _Countdown to Ecstasy_ by Steely Dan. There are a number of songs by Van Morrison with great brass charts, such as “Domino”. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/36 "2010-03-23T04:50:09Z")
_Sinfonietta_ by Janacek. This is the finale, which largely repeats the opening. At 6:42 I believe I see a couple of Wagner tubas (see below). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjz8VzyzPqc#t=6m30s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjz8VzyzPqc#t=6m30s) Any Wagner excerpt CD will have lots of good brass parts. And he invented the [Wagner tuba](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_tuba) specifically for the Ring cycle. Ride of the Valkyries [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V92OBNsQgxU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V92OBNsQgxU) prelude to act 3 of _Lohengrin_ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CumBIiOdpV8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CumBIiOdpV8) In the overture to _Tannhauser_, the horns carry most of the pilgrims’ chorus. Just listen to the whole masterpiece. Part 1 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDwiYOCnuao](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDwiYOCnuao) Part 2 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVnZZekYMrY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVnZZekYMrY) ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/37 "2010-03-23T05:57:51Z")
The Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale by Berlioz. ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/38 "2010-03-23T06:04:01Z")
[Comanche](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IPzwiKk0BE&feature=related) This just sounds nasty, and I want more music that sounds like it! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/39 "2010-03-23T06:21:02Z")
Almost any Stan Kenton tune will have good brass but one of my all time favorites doesn’t seem to be linkable to anywhere I would care to put a link to. Artistry in Boogie I found some state college jazz band butchering it on youtube. Cuban Fire is an great Kenton Album After seeing the commercial for that car with toys I went and looked “How you like me now”. The band is called The Heavy and the album is called The House that Dirt Built. Nice horn stuff there. If jazz/funk fusion from the early 70’s is your thing, it will be hard but seek out Bill Chase. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-with-awesome-brass-parts/533217/40 "2010-03-23T06:27:20Z")
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