OT: Songs With a Great Brass Riff, Solos, or Beautiful Melodic Hooks - Sax, Trumpets, etc.

[AidanFan20]

Being a trad-jazz nerd with over 23,000 tunes (95% of it "trad", at LEAST)... I could fill this thread up bigtime...

But I'll just do a couple, getting a bit obscure with it.

 

[AidanFan20]

This is by far the best high school band I've heard... EVER.

Kyoto Tachibana high school, Japan. These 15-18-year-old girls sound like pros! And they are like Stephan Curry... They NEVER stop moving! Precision city!

 

[ec33]

Recognizing this isn't the crowd, I find this one of the more interesting modern uses of saxophones: Moon Hooch "Tubes" complete with traffic cone, plus the rest of the NPR Tiny Desk concert at no extra cost):

 

[Cuango]

 

[Ozimoto]

Mason Williams Classical Gas.

You have to wait a little while for it, but it's there mixed in with the strings. And of course there is the brass in the break. It then follows through the rest of the song. No vocals though.

 

[Scud49]

Bobby Darin live:

 

[Aluminny69]

This video fits the description perfectly. Wait for the "surprise" at the two minute mark.

 

[meyers7]

Just saw these guys in NYC a couple weeks ago.

Bywater Call covering Stephen Still's "Love The One Your With". Trumpet and Sax with long sax solo and then sax and trumpet just riffing. You'll see.

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[meyers7]

Paul Young - Love of the Common People

Rico Rodriguez on trombone. (and have to mention the Fabulously Wealthy Tarts - Maz Roberts and Kim Leslie)

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[meyers7]

I'm You're Boogie Man - KC and The Sunshine Band

As good as the groove is, it's the trombone and trumpets that make this song.

 

[Ozimoto]

There is subtle brass in this song. You notice the strings first, but the brass builds in as the song progresses beyond the second verse.

 

[Ozimoto]

Very similar arrangement on this song. The brass is a bit more prominent in this one.

 

[CL82]

This immediately leaves the mind if we're talking about brass...

 

[Scud49]

Gotta toss one in for Jethro Tull - "Skating Away". They utilize a claghorn, a device utilizing the mouthpiece for a sax, attached to a flute body. What can I say, it's Jethro, so I'm smiling. 😃😃

 

[Cuango]

 

[64Zcode]

Since full-on instrumentals seem to be ok... I remember this Leroy Anderson composition from HS band.

One of the more unique versions of Bugler's Holiday I found on YT - brass only and no sheet music.
German introduction, music starts approximately 30 seconds in.

 

[Scud49]

Amy Winehouse - some tasty horn support for "Valarie":

 

[ec33]

They Might Be Giants' "Dirt Bike" with a great horn intro:

 

[ec33]

Some Blood, Sweat, and Tears (who I'm sure I missed along the way, so you are going to have to bear with a potential repeat):

 

[ec33]

NYC Subway Brass #1:

Lucky Chops (featuring Leo P. of next act):

 

[ec33]

NYC Sunway Brass #2:

Too Many Zooz with something less traditional:

 

[Aluminny69]

Brass Overload

 

[ec33]

David Murray from his album of Grateful Dead covers:

 

[Cuango]