In music, a horn section can refer to several groups of musicians. It can refer to the musicians in a symphony orchestra who play the horn (also known as the French horn). In a British-style brass band it refers to the tenor horn players. In popular music, it can also refer to a small group of wind instrumentalists who augment a band. The composition of these groups can vary, and they are used with bands of a variety of genres.

Symphonic horn section[link]

The horn section is the group of symphonic musicians who play the horn. These musicians are typically seated to the back of the ensemble and may be on either side at the director's discretion. Placing them to the left with their bells toward the audience increases the prominence of the section, whereas on the right, the sound reflects off the back of the stage. The order from the principal horn (1st horn) to the 4th horn is right to left from the director's view. The section is ordered in this way so the principal horn may be heard by all players as the principal sets the timbre and intonation of the section.

Popular music horn section[link]

Horn section of Ojos de Brujo

In non-classical music groups such as blues, funk, or rock bands, the horn section refers to a group of wind instrumentalists — usually saxophone, trumpet and trombone players; sometime singularly, and sometimes in pairs or more of each instrument. In blues and jazz, saxophones and brass instruments are colloquially referred to as "horns." The horn section usually has written parts which are prepared by an arranger using orchestration techniques to provide a harmonic and melodic accompaniment to a song or musical group. In some cases, the horn section may improvise a simple backing part using well-known "stock" lines.

Horn sections are an integral part of musical genres such as jazz, R&B, blues, funk, calypso, ska, soul music and gospel music. Most of these horn sections feature some combination of saxophones, trumpets and trombones. More rarely, other wind or brass instruments such as flute, clarinet or tuba may be added. Other popular musical genres also use horn sections for songs, such as rock and pop bands.

Notable horn sections[link]

Horn sections in blues bands and funk groups may be composed of session musicians playing arranged parts, or they may be a consistent group of musicians. A small number of horn sections use a consistent group of musicians that become well known as a unit.

• The Aquabats
• Blood, Sweat & Tears
• Chicago
• Chops (original horn section for Sugar Hill Records )
• The Empire Horns
• The E Street Band
• The Grass Roots
• Hornz Unlimited of OutKast
• The J.B.'s
• The Know How Horns
• Lips (in Stanley Clarke's band during the 70's )
• The Memphis Horns
• The Muscle Shoals Horns
• The Phenix Horns from Earth Wind & Fire
• Reel Big Fish
• The Punk Funk Horns
• The Seawind Horns
• Steely Dan
• Streetlight Manifesto
• The Total Pros with Wilco
• The Tower of Power Horns
• The Miami Horns
• Vine Street Horns, founded by Harry Kim (musician) [1]

Fareed Haque
Fareed Haque at Green Mill Jazz Club, Chicago
Background information
Born	1963
Occupations	Musician, professor
Instruments	Guitar
Labels	Blue Note, Owl Studios
Associated acts	Garaj Mahal, Flat Earth Ensemble
Website	www.fareed.com

Fareed Haque (born 1963) is a fusion guitar virtuoso of Pakistani and Chilean descent.

Raised in Chicago, he studied at North Texas State University and Northwestern University.^[1]

He is renowned for bringing classical and jazz styles to his jam band collaborations, including, but not limited to, those with Paquito D'Rivera, Dave Holland, Sting, Joe Henderson, Lester Bowie, Arturo Sandoval, Robert Walter, Keller Williams, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Kahil el Zabar, Defunckt, Ramsey Lewis, Gabe Noel, Edo Castro and more recently with George Brooks on "Summit" and Garaj Mahal.^[2]

Haque received the 'Most Valuable Player' award at the 2002 High Sierra Music Festival.

He is now a professor of Jazz and Classical Guitar Studies at Northern Illinois University. Fareed's notable students include Neal Alger (of Patricia Barber's group) and Bradley Fish.^[3]

Discography[link]

• Voices Rising (1988)
• The Poet (1988)
• Manresa (1989)
• Sacred Addiction (1993)
• Opaque (1995)
• Déjà Vu (1996)
• Macedonian Blues (2001)
• "Fareed Haque and the flat earth ensemble" (2009)

His nickname is "Freaky Hot"

References[link]

External links[link]

• Fareed Haque official site
• [1]Fareed Haque interview by Brad Conroy

Southside Johnny
Southside Johnny in performance, 2008
Background information
Birth name	John Lyon
Born	(1948-12-04) December 4, 1948 (age 63) Ocean Grove, New Jersey, United States
Genres	Rock Blues Blue-eyed soul
Occupations	Singer-songwriter Musician
Instruments	Vocals Guitar Harmonica Piano
Years active	1970–present
Labels	Columbia Records, Mercury Records, Leroy Records
Associated acts	Bruce Springsteen The E Street Band Little Steven The Miami Horns
Website	SouthsideJohnny.com

Southside Johnny (born John Lyon, December 4, 1948, Neptune Township, New Jersey) is an American singer-songwriter, who usually fronts his band Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes.

Biography[link]

Early days[link]

Lyon grew up in Ocean Grove, New Jersey^[1] and graduated from Neptune High School.^[2] Southside has long been considered the Grandfather of "the New Jersey Sound." Jon Bon Jovi has acknowledged Southside as his "reason for singing."^{[citation needed]}

1975-1980[link]

Southside Johnny first achieved prominence in the mid-1970s as the second act to emerge from the Jersey Shore music scene and be considered part of the Jersey Shore sound, following Bruce Springsteen. Southside's first three albums, I Don't Want To Go Home (1976), This Time It's for Real (1977), and Hearts of Stone (1978), were Stax-influenced R&B arranged and produced by the co-founder of the band and Springsteen confederate Steven Van Zandt and largely featured songs written by Van Zandt and/or Springsteen. The Van Zandt-written "I Don't Want To Go Home" became Southside's signature song, an evocative mixture of horn-based melodic riffs and sentimental lyrics. Other notable songs included "The Fever", "Talk to Me", "This Time It's For Real", "Love on the Wrong Side of Town", and the definitive version of Springsteen's "Hearts of Stone". In 1977, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes were featured as a bar band in the movie, "Between the Lines."

In 1979, Southside Johnny and Asbury Jukes appeared on television, featured as the musical guest for the cross-border sketch comedy show, SCTV. Johnny and the band played three full songs, including "The Fever", and performed many truncated versions from their other tunes that served to fill the necessities of television: fading in from a commercial, beginning another tune that leads to a hard break, and, throughout, some very good background action and music. The producers of SCTV did a profoundly good job making full use and exposure of the band. Johnny acted in one sketch, and the entire band was featured as a plot point in another. It was a new perspective of such artists as Southside Johnny and Asbury Jukes, and one that trumped the prevailing standard of TWO-LIVE-TUNES somewhere between D and E block, slipped in between the bumble bee sketch, and a juggling political satirist.

1980-1990[link]

Cast under Springsteen's long shadow, Southside and the Jukes never gained national commercial success and in 1979 they were dropped by their record company. Now working without Van Zandt, they released The Jukes in 1979 and Love is a Sacrifice in 1980. Neither of these achieved much success either. The band's first official live release also came out in 1980, the double album Live: Reach Up and Touch the Sky.

In 1982 Rolling Stone Magazine voted the album Hearts of Stone among the top 100 albums of the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1983, Southside Johnny served as a technical advisor on the film Eddie and the Cruisers.^[3]

During the 1980s Southside Johnny's recording contracts continued to change almost by album, but he continued to release records: Trash It Up (1983), a disco influenced album written by Billy Rush and produced by Nile Rodgers; In the Heat (1984) an album trying to reach out to "Adult Contemporary" radio; and At Least We Got Shoes (1986) where guitarist and Jersey shore fixture Bobby Bandiera took over songwriting and guitar work from Billy Rush and led the Asbury Jukes back to their original sound.^{[citation needed]} Songwriting credits on At Least We Got Shoes also contain a song co-written by Bandiera and singer Patti Scialfa, who was known as a Jukes collaborator since the 1980 album Love is a Sacrifice and who became a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band in 1984.

In 1985, Southside Johnny contributed the song Tuff Turf to the movie of the same name.

In 1987, Southside and the Jukes were featured in the film Adventures in Babysitting performing at a college frat party. They performed the songs "Future In Your Eyes" and "Expressway to Your Heart".^[4]

In 1988 Southside Johnny released his first solo record Slow Dance containing ballads and love songs like "On the Air", but also "Little Calcutta" which is still discussed^{[by whom?]} as Southside's most political song of his career, describing the life and environment of the homeless in New York City.

1990-today[link]

Southside Johnny & Bobby Bandiera in 2005

In 1990, Southside contributed the songs "Memories of You" and "Written in the Wind" to the film Captain America.^[5] Additionally, he performed the song "Please Come Home for Christmas" for the 1990 film Home Alone.^[6]

His recording career was re-launched with the album Better Days (1991), which featured production by Van Zandt, songs by Springsteen, and vocal performances from Van Zandt, Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi. With Bobby Bandiera driving the band, the Jukes were gaining new energy for a world wide tour supporting the album. But once again, Southside Johnny's bad luck with the industry was shown when the record label went bankrupt while the tour was still rolling.

Southside performed the theme song for the 1990s television sitcom Dave's World, a cover of Billy Joel's "You May Be Right."

In 1992, Southside contributed the song "Shake 'Em Down" to the film The Mighty Ducks.^[7]

Southside eventually relocated to Nashville taking a break from the music business. A few members of the Asbury Jukes would end up being part of The Max Weinberg 7 on the Late Night with Conan O'Brien television show, while some others went on tour and into the recording studio with artists like Jon Bon Jovi, Mink DeVille, Graham Parker, and Robert Cray.

In 1998 Southside Johnny came back into the spotlight with an independent release titled Spittin' Fire, a live record with a semi-acoustic Jukes lineup released in France containing a 20 song set recorded during a series of 10 shows at the "Chesterfield Café" in Paris, France.

Since 2001 Southside Johnny and the Jukes have toured the UK and Europe as an annual event, their first since the 1992 Better Days tour, although Southside and Bobby Bandiera did some acoustic shows in 1995.

After a decade without a record contract Southside finally founded his own record label in 2001 under the name of Leroy Records, and started releasing and distributing his new records fully under his own control: Messin' with the Blues (2000), Going to Jukesville (2002), Missing Pieces (2004), Into the Harbour (2005). Southside continued to perform, and maintains substantial audience followings as 2002's Live At The Opera House DVD, filmed at a sold-out performance in Newcastle upon Tyne, demonstrated.

In 2008, Southside Johnny collaborated with long-time Asbury Jukes trombone player Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg, for a break from the classic Asbury Jukes sound to classic Big-Band Jazz. Together with a 20 piece big band they recorded a cover album of songs written by Tom Waits, arranged and conducted by Rosenberg.^[8]

As of 2009, Southside Johnny Lyon lives again in his original hometown Ocean Grove.^[9]

The Juke's newest album "Pills and Ammo" was released in June 2010, receiving the most critical acclaim since the Better Days album. All the songs were primarily written by Southside Johnny and Jukes keyboard player Jeff Kazee.

On September 24, 2010 Southside Johnny and the Jukes kicked off an international tour (official website) with a free performance at Overpeck Park in Ridgefield Park, NJ. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes continue to be a fixture on the U.S. Northeast music scene including New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland, as well as throughout the UK and Europe.

On July 2, 2011 Southside Johnny and the Jukes recorded a live performance of Stevie Van Zandt's Men Without Women album at the Stone Pony in New Jersey for release on CD. The material on "Men Without Women" was composed almost entirely of unused material originally recorded by Southside Johnny during the "Hearts of Stone" sessions, later re-recorded by Van Zandt as his first solo album.^[10]

In October 2011, with his band "The Poor Fools", he recorded a version of "I'm Down" for The Beatles Complete On Ukulele.

According to a post by Southside Johnny from May 2011 on his official website, he is recording a new album with the Jukes as well as working on an acoustic album.^[11]

Discography[link]

Southside Johnny and saxophonist Joey Stann in 2007

The horn section of the Asbury Jukes in 2006

^[12]

• Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
  • I Don't Want to Go Home (1976)
  • Live at the Bottom Line (1976)
  • This Time It's for Real (1977)
  • Hearts of Stone (1978)
  • The Jukes (1979)
  • Love Is a Sacrifice (1980)
  • Live: Reach Up and Touch the Sky (1981)
  • Better Days (1991)
  • Ruff Stuff (EP) (1995)
  • Live at the Paradise Theater (2000)
  • Messin' With the Blues (2000)
  • More Ruff Stuff (EP) (2000)
  • Going to Jukesville (2002)
  • Found in a Closet (EP) (2003)
  • Missing Pieces (2004)
  • Into the Harbour (2005)
  • Jukebox (2007)
  • Ruff Stuff 3 (EP) (2008)
  • From Southside to Tyneside (2008)
  • 1978: Live in Boston (2008)
  • Hearts of Stone LIVE (2009)
  • Pills and Ammo (2010)
  • Acoustic Ammo (EP) (2011)
  • Men Without Women LIVE (forthcoming)

• Southside Johnny & the Jukes
  • Trash It Up! (1983)
  • In the Heat (1984)
  • At Least We Got Shoes (1986)

• Southside Johnny
  • Slow Dance (1988)
  • Spittin' Fire (1997)

• Southside Johnny with La Bamba's Big Band
  • Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits (2008)

• Selected others
  • Jersey Artists for Mankind: "We Got the Love" / "Save Love, Save Life" (1986)
  • Soundtrack: Home Alone (1990)
  • Killer Joe: Scene of the Crime (1991)
  • Rusty Cloud: Walkin' the Night (1994)
  • Rattlesnake Guitar: Music of Peter Green (1997)
  • Gary U.S. Bonds: Back in 20 (2004) ^[13]

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Quotations[link]

NME - September 1977^[14]

References[link]

External links[link]

• SouthsideJohnny.com - Official website
• AsburyJukes.net - Fan website
• Southside Johnny Imeem Fan Group website
• Concert at Asbury Park Convention Hall documentary on IMDB