11/30/2022 0 Comments Tower of power horn transcriptionsBrink himself holds down the baritone chair. The heart of Barely White is the five-man horn section: trumpet-playing brothers Bill and Gary Moore, Jim Hayward and Pete Berenbragg, who split tenor duty, and trombonist Rick Lilard. When I told them about it, they all went, "Oh, yeah? You're going to get that kind of a group together? I'd love to be in it." Another reason for the core group, Brink points out, is that "there aren't that many players in town who could sight-read the book." "When we started, I drew from the people that did most of the recording sessions in town. (Someday, Washingtonians may come to appreciate just how much the service musicians contribute to local music outside their military roles.) "To me, it's really been phenomenal," Brink says, noting that he's been able to gather a strong core group of players, most of them connected with either the city's low-profile but always-busy recording studios or the various service bands. What connects all those artists-besides scintillating horn charts-is that their music is above all danceable. The Barely White book ranges from Aretha Franklin to Al Jarreau, from Wilson Pickett to Lenny Pickett (of Tower of Power), from Sam and Dave to David Sanborn, Otis Redding, the Brecker Brothers and a half-dozen others. Most of what we do are covers, and to be able to hear the records and write the arrangements down and actually have them played exactly like it was originally done is just amazing." "I'm primarily used as a copyist in the Navy Band," he says, "but I guess I learned some arranging through osmosis. When Brink started Barely White a year ago (like the Average White Band, the name reflects the irony of young, mostly white musicians playing mostly black soul classics), it was "a real big dream" to assemble the best possible local musicians for the sole purpose of "playing the kind of music that I always loved, to be able to play it live." Inspiration came from "Tower of Power Earth, Wind and Fire Chicago Blood, Sweat and Tears the Blues Brothers all that horn-oriented stuff."īrink did all the writing, recreating charts from the original records. Anything is real dull to me unless it's got horns." I absolutely love Tower of Power, all that horn stuff. But I didn't really get turned on to Tower of Power until coming here with the service. "I grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and I always loved James Brown and the blues. "I think I got into it in a past life," says local saxophonist David Brink, a copyist on the arranging staff of the Navy Band. SAM AND DAVE, of course, were the Soul Men and famous for it.īarely White, an 11-piece rock 'n' soul band, are the Horn Men, and, if not famous, at least happy for it.
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