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unusual facts about brass section


Keyboardist

Keyboardists are often highly sought after in cover bands, to replicate the original keyboard parts and other instrumental parts such as strings or horns where it would be logistically difficult to hire people to play the actual instruments.


Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman

It premiered on May 5, 1991, and was performed by the Empire Brass and members of the New York Philharmonic brass section.

No Equal

It contains a spacy beat that features a prominent xylophone and brass section sampled from "Ain't No Sunshine" by Willis Jackson, "The Confined Few" by Irvin Booker & Booker Little and "Ain't No Sunshine" by Harlem Underground Band.

Wild Wild Life

It was played live for the first time on June 11, 2013, at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, New Jersey, with each of the eight-piece brass section taking turns to sing a line of the song twice during the performance.


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Another Time Another Place

Ronnie Ross had died, so the brass section had to be reorganised as well, giving the record a different timbre.

True Ingredients

The band has played gigs all over the UK as well as in many other European countries alongside a number of high profile artists such as DJ Vadim, Finley Quaye, Kele Le Roc, Jungle Brothers, Aquasky, Foreign Beggars, High Contrast, Bugz in the Attic, and The Gap Band who feature as the brass section on True Ingredients' single Who's Next?.

Viv Fisher

He also performed brass section elements of the title sequence of Bob's Full House, a gameshow broadcast by the BBC from 1984, presented by comedian Bob Monkhouse.

Way Down Yonder in New Orleans

According to Dick Biondi, Freddy Cannon's 1959 version became the first record in the rock era to have a full brass section.