Funky horns, please.
August 23, 2013 10:36 AM

Making a funky horn mix - please give me your best examples! Mostly interested in instrumentals. Stuff like this-

* Souljazz Orchestra - Insurrection
* Thievery Corporation - The Lagos Communiqué
* Hi-Fi Companions - The Livin End

Thank you!

(Funky flute jams also welcome.)
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Get a Move On - Mister Scruff
posted by jquinby at 10:57 AM on August 23, 2013


(Funky flute jams also welcome.)

From this previously, Moe Koffman, "Curried Soul."
posted by MonkeyToes at 10:58 AM on August 23, 2013


Riding the Fourth Wave by Catch 22 - flutes and horns!
posted by Nedroid at 11:01 AM on August 23, 2013


Average White Band -- Pick Up the Pieces!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfAJLGFWxYo

Funk Brothers - Can I Get A Witness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9uM1UQccz0
posted by Jim On Light at 11:03 AM on August 23, 2013


There's a pretty funky flute riff in Flute Loop by the Beastie Boys, but it's not instrumental.
posted by jquinby at 11:10 AM on August 23, 2013


My 4-year-old's favorite: Charles Mingus - Moanin'
posted by Mchelly at 11:19 AM on August 23, 2013


Congo Bongo - Kokolo Afrobeat (too many lyrics?)
posted by biscuits at 11:25 AM on August 23, 2013


Floratone (Link to eponymous track, but it's all good.)
posted by usonian at 11:52 AM on August 23, 2013


It doesn't get much funkier on the flute than Herbie Mann: Memphis Underground, Comin' Home Baby, Push Push, (Gimme Some Of That Good Old) Soul Beat Momma.
posted by usonian at 11:59 AM on August 23, 2013


You're gonna need some Maceo Parker in there. I can't get to Youtube where I'm at but find Shake Everything You've Got.
posted by Big_B at 12:03 PM on August 23, 2013


I think Trombone Shorty is someone you may want to investigate.
posted by General Malaise at 12:06 PM on August 23, 2013


Nils Landgren and the Funk Unit
The Brand New Heavies
Tower of Power
Defunkt
posted by meijusa at 12:39 PM on August 23, 2013


Colin Stetson - The Righteous Wrath of an Honorable Man
I don't know if this is funky but it sure is horns.
posted by oulipian at 12:46 PM on August 23, 2013


Echo by The Thrill
posted by jazon at 12:59 PM on August 23, 2013


Layla - The London Trombone Sound could have been made for this thread. They have some other awesome covers too.
posted by dirm at 2:27 PM on August 23, 2013


"Peaches en Regalia" by Frank Zappa.
posted by 4midori at 3:44 PM on August 23, 2013


Asteroids Galaxy Tour: "Major"
posted by 4ster at 5:26 PM on August 23, 2013


pigbag

Quincy Jones Hummin'

In fact - the entire Quincy Jones' album Gula Matari is awesome - and is my funky flute goto album
posted by Mario Speedwagon at 5:48 PM on August 23, 2013




Memory is a little rusty, but two more in more of the breakbeat style of your examples:

Hustlers of Cuture - Flipjack
Master Freez - Feel That Funky Groove
posted by drwelby at 7:26 PM on August 23, 2013


The sadly-defunct (and virtually unGoogleable) East Bay band !Tang had a phat horn section.

FogDub are almost nothin'-but-horns.
posted by Lexica at 8:48 PM on August 23, 2013


Fred Wesley - Funk for your Ass
posted by yoHighness at 4:32 AM on August 24, 2013


Ethiopiques. There's so much there I don't know which songs to point you towards, but maybe begin with Kasalefkut Hulu?
posted by The corpse in the library at 8:08 AM on August 24, 2013


Whee!

Thank you, peoples of Metafilter!
posted by jammy at 10:02 AM on August 24, 2013


Buckshot Lefonque is Branford Marsalis gettin funky
posted by OHenryPacey at 1:05 PM on August 24, 2013


Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - World War IV
posted by awenner at 4:36 PM on August 24, 2013




4midori: ""Peaches en Regalia" by Frank Zappa."

Also Zappa's We Are Not Alone.
posted by jquinby at 7:07 PM on August 25, 2013


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