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Artist: Bop Brothers
Group. Late '80s mainstream and hard bop sextet with three horn frontline and piano/bass/drums rhythm section, thoroughly influenced by '60s Art Blakey sound. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Griot Galaxy
"The Sci-Fi Band," Detroit's premier creative improvised band. With three horns and two on rhythm. They're not afraid to cut loose. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Alan Civil
Alan Civil played classical horn for decades, but is most renowned for one evening of session work. He was the principal horn player in the Philharmonia when George Martin called him to ask if he could provide the French horn obligato on a Beatles song. For the instrumental break of "For No One," Civil played the melancholy French horn solo,... [+] Read More
Artist: Dexter Johnson
Johnson moved to Senegal in the 1950s and enjoyed massive popularity as a horn player with both the Star Band and the Super Etoile Band. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Jungle Juice
The rap/funk/alternative metal band Jungle Juice was formed in Connecticut in May 1998 by vocalist Pat Horton, guitarist Mark Hori, bassist Mike Horn, and drummer Ian Ingram. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Harrison Calloway
Achieving his greatest success as a member of the Muscle Shoals Horns, trumpet player Harrison Calloway also doubles on keyboards. His songwriting and arranging skills were in evidence even during his college years, when he wrote a new fight song for the University of Tennessee. In addition to recording with the Horns, Calloway wrote and... [+] Read More
Artist: Jimmy Davis
Jimmy Davis is best-known as the co-writer (along with Roger "Ram" Ramirez and James Sherman) of the jazz standard "Lover Man," which was first recorded by Billie Holiday in 1944, and has been recorded by countless performers since, including Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Lena Horne, Betty Carter, Shirley Horn, and more. ~ Joslyn Layne, All Music... [+] Read More
Artist: The Chimes
The Chimes were the first group whom the legendary William "Smokey" Robinson crooned and doo wopped with, and are not to be confused with Chicago's Five Chimes. Like any upstart group, members changed frequently, but the original lineup included Robinson, Clarence Dawson, James Grice, Donald Wicker, and Warren "Pete" Moore. No more than 13 or 14... [+] Read More
Artist: John Cerminaro
The technical virtuosity of British symphonic music has been combined with the thicker and richer American style by Texas-born horn player John Cerminaro. A former principal horn player for the New York Philharmonic from 1979 until 1989 and the Los Angeles Symphony from 1990 until 1997 under the direction of Carlo Maria Guilini, Cerminaro has... [+] Read More
Artist: Tom Varner
There have been few French horn soloists in jazz but, even if there had been dozens, chances are that Tom Varner would rank near the top. He started on piano at age ten and a few years later switched to French horn, discovering his predecessor Julius Watkins' recordings when he was 17. He graduated from the New England Conservatory and, in 1979,... [+] Read More
Artist: Louis François Dauprat
A horn player from France who was the winner of the first "premier prix" for a horn player. Dauprat traveled with military bands before completing his studies at the National Institute of Music (which had by this time become the Conservatoire). As an assistant professor at the Conservatoire, Dauprat became a full professor in 1816 until 1842.... [+] Read More
Artist: The Art of Noise
Anne Dudley, Gary Langan, and Paul Morley were members of producer Trevor Horn's in-house studio band in the early '80s before they formed the Art of Noise, a techno-pop group whose music was an amalgam of studio gimmickry, tape splicing, and synthesized beats. The Art of Noise took material from a variety of sources: hip-hop, rock, jazz, R&B,... [+] Read More
Artist: John Brown
This trumpeter, not to be confused with the jazz saxophonist nor bassist of the same name, was a member of the vaudeville band that backed up clarinetist Wilton Crawley, known far and wide for making outrageous squeaks on his horn. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Paul Evans
The guitarist Paul Evans has recorded and performed with the Max Groove ensemble. He should not be confused with several different jazz horn players of the same name dating from both the '20s and the '90s. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: V C Strut Band
V C Strut Band is an 8 member "hip hop funk thang" from Nashville, TN. Emcee Kyhil fronts this horn-and-groove based outfit. For more info and the latest news and videos, visit www.vcsb.com [+] Read More
Artist: Swallow
Antigua's undisputed party master who pleases everyone from the Caribbean to NYC to Toronto with cowbell- and horn-driven soca. Talented beyond compare, able year after year to compose infectious hooks with catchy lyrics. There's not a bad release by Swallow throughout his long career. ~ Gene Scaramuzzo, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Allyn Ferguson
A pianist and flugelhorn player who recorded a couple of chamber jazz-styled works for Discovery in the late '50s and early '60s. The first was with a sextet, the second with a large orchestra that included Paul Horn. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Solid Eye
The experimental electronic trio Solid Eye comprised Joseph Hammer and Rick Potts (who previously teamed in Dinosaurs with Horns) in tandem with Steve Thomsen; formed in 1992, they released their self-titled debut album on Win Records in 1999. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: AKA Project
British acid jazz duo AKA Project teamed Richard Sadler and Richard Wargent, who previously recorded as the NFL Horns Project before changing their name to avoid an inevitable run-in with the National Football League. Their debut album The Adventures of F-F Man appeared in early 1999. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Parkway
The CCM group Parkway features founding members Damian Horne and Lance Black, along with touring members Rod Schuler (also of Reality Check) and Matt and Jessie Fein. Horne and Black (previously a member of the Dove Award-nominated group Silage) met in junior high and discovered they shared a love of music as well as a strong religious faith.... [+] Read More
Artist: Black Stalin
With his politically aware lyrics set to a high-tech blend of electric drums, congas, horns, guitar and bass, Black Stalin (born: Leroy Calliste) has been hailed as "one of the kings of soca. A five-time winner of Trinidad's National Calypso Monarch competition (1979, 1985, 1987, 1991, and 1995), Stalin sings of the struggles of South Africa,... [+] Read More
Artist: Louis Barbarin
This player's recording debut as a trombonist may have been in 1980 on the second album by the Southroad Connection, an idea that neither connected nor led anywhere commercially. After that there are credits for his "horn" on funky sessions through the decade, which might just mean someone on the production staff didn't know what a trombone was,... [+] Read More
Artist: Seal
Seal emerged from England's house music scene in the early '90s to become the most popular British soul vocalist of the decade. Although his earliest material still showed signs of acid house, by the mid-'90s he had created a distinctive fusion of soul, folk, pop, dance, and rock that brought him success on both sides of the Atlantic.The son of... [+] Read More
Artist: Dionne Warwick
It is easier to define Dionne Warwick by what she isn't rather than what she is. Although she grew up singing in church, she is not a gospel singer. Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan are clear influences, but she is not a jazz singer. R&B is also part of her background, but she is not really a soul singer, either, at least not in the sense that... [+] Read More
Artist: The Buggles
As the answer to the trivia question "What was the first act ever played on MTV?," the Buggles assured their place in pop music history. Vocalist and bassist Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoff Downes formed the electro-pop duo in England in 1979 after meeting two years prior as session musicians. Their first single, "Video Killed the Radio Star,"... [+] Read More
