Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to music that shows off the golden, mellow sunshine of “the cello of the brass section.” In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we ...

For Lady Antebellum, horns make everything better. The trio took their catalog of hits to the next level on Thursday night (Aug. 3) at WE Fest, finding jolts of electricity that sent shockwaves ...

Many vintage R&B gems wouldn’t elevate, swoop or seduce quite the same without Charlie Chalmers. Chalmers played tenor sax and did horn arrangements on such Muscle Shoals hits as Etta James’ “I’d ...

The Monkees‘ “Shade of Grey” wasn’t written by any of the Prefab Four. Despite this, Mike Nesmith added horn and cello sections to the song. The tune appeared on a famous album. Peter Tork said 1 of ...

The overall sound is huge and the energy exuberant, with Petunia's band, at the time of the recording, coming off a years-long residency at the WISE Lounge, singing songs that had been workshopped and ...

As we embark upon the first masterworks season at The Jacobs Music Center I’ve been thinking about my expectations. Apparently, expectations are bad and are destined to create disappointment—for the ...

Corni Angelicus (Angelic Horns) is a project of Peggy Moran and Jack Helsley, who led their Indy debut performance at the Jazz Kitchen on March 14, 2023. With newly commissioned works in tow, it was a ...

The Aspen Music Festival and School offered free Young Artists Concerts on Tuesdays and Fridays at noon and Wednesdays at 4 p.m. during the summer of 1990. Different groups would perform at various ...

Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows had a great full horn section, as do the Jungle Dogs still, and a few other bands over the decades in the Carbondale area. Jungle Dogs’ precursor band Love Rhino and ...

From a visual perspective, some instrumentalists on a crowded orchestral stage get most of the attention. The first violinist, the percussionist and tympanists, the flutist and the harpist are all ...