# Where were the British horn bands of the 60s and 70s? (If any....) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [August 5, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-the-british-horn-bands-of-the-60s-and-70s-if-any/948097 "2021-08-05T12:38:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-the-british-horn-bands-of-the-60s-and-70s-if-any/948097/41 "2021-08-07T04:33:57Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > Nearest i can think of is Van Morrison, but he’s not a band ! Well…he gave one iteration of them a name - [The Caledonia Soul Orchestra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caledonia_Soul_Orchestra). Didn’t last long, but they were there at what was probably his popular peak. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-the-british-horn-bands-of-the-60s-and-70s-if-any/948097/42 "2021-08-07T11:04:15Z")
I don’t have additions to those already mentioned, but are we differentiating sax vs. brass? Or is saxophone considered a horn in this context? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-the-british-horn-bands-of-the-60s-and-70s-if-any/948097/43 "2021-08-07T13:50:47Z")
Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band might count. He was an American airman ststioned in the UK when he started singing but the rest of the band were British as far as i know. I vever saw them back then but Geno kept gigging for years and I saw him 3 times in the early 2000s - great stuff! Here’s [the band in action in 1967](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMQNbdxJKyw) (with pretty poor sound) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-the-british-horn-bands-of-the-60s-and-70s-if-any/948097/44 "2021-08-07T17:37:37Z")
Is thst true? In Canada marching bands aren’t as common as good old concert bands and stage bands. My school had both a concert band and a stage band, but didn’t have a marching band. I think one of the reasons Canada has such a vibrant music scene is because of our band programs. Or at least that was true in the past. Most kids who had an interest in music played in school bands. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-the-british-horn-bands-of-the-60s-and-70s-if-any/948097/45 "2021-08-07T17:45:12Z")
A sax is colloquially referred to as a ‘horn’, and in a stage band it is part of the ‘horn section’, but it’s not a brass instrument, and in a concert band would be grouped with the woodwinds. Brass instruments have slides or valves, and include trumpets, trombones, tubas, etc. Saxes are reed instruments in the woodwind family, which includes clarinets, flutes, oboes, etc. That said, a ‘brass band’ may or may not have a sax in it. New Orleans ‘brass bands’ often have saxes and clarinets. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-the-british-horn-bands-of-the-60s-and-70s-if-any/948097/46 "2021-08-07T18:05:16Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > The only ‘brass’ band I can think of commercially in North America is Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass: There’s a quintet which formed in Toronto 51 years ago. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/F3keFapaG5g/maxresdefault.jpg "Penny Lane - Canadian Brass 2013") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3keFapaG5g) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-the-british-horn-bands-of-the-60s-and-70s-if-any/948097.md?page=2)