Not so much as a featured instrument like Herb Alpert, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, or Louis Armstrong, but to enhance a song.

I posted earlier that we saw JJ Grey and Mofro recently. He’s got two trumpet players in the band and the keyboard player can play trumpet as well. They played the song posted below and when the trumpets came in I laughed out loud—it was perfect, then the solo outtro...more perfect.

Here are 3 songs that all feature a trumpet(s) to enhance the song. The trumpet player also does the outtro on the Flogging Molly song. You see him come onstage at 3:24 and begin playing about 3:50. I think they’re all terrific.

Adolph Herseth (former principal trumpet - Chicago Symphony Orchestra) playing the very opening of Mahler 5.

I always liked the trumpets in this song:

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Originally posted by PASig:
I always liked the trumpets in this song:

Yeah, me too, I like a lot of Latin fusion; however, I strongly suspect that maybe those 3 women weren’t the horn section on the recording

Here ya go, my friend:

Maynard Ferguson.

I like them in "Ring of Fire" Johnny Cash.

Who can forget the trumpets in The Bands The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Always loved horns in a rock band!

Alright, here’s one from the same era as CTA, “Penny Lane”

The signature sound in this song is the piccolo trumpet. In my best Cliff Claven voice:
“You know Nahm, it’s a little known fact that the standard trumpet is tuned to Bb. The piccolo trumpet is also in Bb, an octave above the standard trumpet (there are, of course, other tunings).”

Herb Alpert should be along soon...

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Originally posted by f2:
Herb Alpert should be along soon...

I imagine, but then the trumpet becomes the feature instrument rather than something to enhance.

One of my absolute favorite songs as a kid



A little bit of Pulp Fiction

like this?
Beatles, In too my life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_tCX9I8fxU

or, not so much ?

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Originally posted by TMats:

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Originally posted by f2:
Herb Alpert should be along soon...

I imagine, but then the trumpet becomes the feature instrument rather than something to enhance.

Ah got it - reread the OP.

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Originally posted by bendable:
like this?
Beatles, In too my life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_tCX9I8fxU

or, not so much ?

For me, “not so much,” because the entire song features a full horn section. I like to be almost surprised when the sound of a trumpet comes into the song, but hey...

Oddball, I didn’t even know there was a 12 minute version of “Papa Was a Rolling Stone.”

Bugler's Holiday by Leroy Anderson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHDd0jQxrI0

Concerto for 2 Trumpets by Antonio Vivaldi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l237WKb6FoA

Trumpet Concerto in Ab Major by Antonio Vivaldi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYgtsSWVYb8

Trumpet Concerto by Franz Joseph Haydn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb5MSJcBb9o

That should be enough for a while.

flashguy

Smooth would be different without the horns