No-one mentioned the big daddy?
Feels So Good? by Chuck “I kick so much Flugelhorn ass, yo” Mangione?
Whenever I hear that one I always think of the Love Boat. You know what’s wrong with that?
Not a damn thing.
(oh, and that, whosit? John Coltrane album A Love Supreme is the cat’s whiskers, too)
Moving from the sublime to the popular if not slightly absurd (sorry, I can’t help it):
Walking on Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves
Livin’ La Vida Loca – (you know who)
Place Your Love – Roxette (w/woodwind ensemble from the Stockholm Philharmonic)
Tusk – Fleetwood Mac
Even It Up – Heart
Down Under – Men At Work (admittedly a stretch, but a cool flute riff)
Express Yourself – Madonna
Every time I hear “Just the two of us” sung by Bill Withers and Grover Washington Jr. on sax from his “Winelight” album, I get a real good feeling. And I sing along. With the car windows rolled up. All the way.
jabe: I saw the whole spectacle in Cleveland, OH. I wasn’t sure how the audience would respond to Drums and Tuba, as I had never heard them either, but there was quite a bit of dancing. (Although, frankly, the chemical substances floating around probably aided that.)
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Yertle the Turtle
Jamiroquai - Black Capricorn Day
Bring on the funk!
Nina Simone - I put a spell on you
First heard this on a TV program Jools Holland made years ago called Mr Roadrunner. David Gilmour did a cover of it, it pains me greatly to admit I like the original better.
Billy Bragg - The Saturday Boy
I can’t hear this without getting misty eyed :sniffle:
milo
Ike you old dog - that was my answer. I hate when I read a thread like this and someone comes up with my response before I have the chance. Good taste in music though!! The track that really stands out on that album in my mind is “WS Walcott’s Medicine Show” The horn arrangement is super-tight and the sax solo blazes.
That’s one of my favorite cuts, too. AND one of my favorite Band tunes in general. That’s Garth Hudson taking the tenor sax solo; who’d have thunk it?
The other high point of the album for me is the “Rag Mama Rag,” where Howard Johnson’s tuba is VERY pronounced…I think he stuck to baritone saxophone for most of the concert, making the horns a standard R&B backup ensemble of trumpet/trombone/ATB saxes.
They recently put out a remixed-remastered CD of ROCK OF AGES. The entire double LP fits on the first disc, and the second disc is previously unreleased material.
…hmmmm. I think the record shop down the block is still open. Excuse me.
“The Working Hour” by Tears for Fears is my favorite song in which horns play a prominent role.