Feeling Horny

Now you’re listening. Listening to Purple Current today and I am just realizing that I will want to double down on live music when it becomes safe to get together with players and collaborate again. To me in a live setting there is nothing more exciting than playing with a horn section. I haven’t played with a real live horn section in any consistent way since 2014. And that was like two or three gigs with a tenor and a trombone. Horns are beautiful, amazing instruments and music never feels liver to me than with live drums and live horns. I don’t know how the hell I’ll afford it, but I have to find myself next to a full horn section playing some music in the coming years. There’s a force, a power, it’s so real. What are my favorite horn sections you ask? Rick James in the early 80s.

are you kidding me? this is the best it gets.

It’s so tight, it’s so explosive. It is perfect. How bout in a jazz setting? what is your favorite writing in that setting?

What about horns on a rock song? What is best in that world? Look no further than Allen Toussaint doing the chart’s for the Band’s Last Waltz concert.