Ladies and Gentlemen and Children of All Ages ... I am Marlowe B West and I am your Ring Leader ... Let me take a moment to clarify something ... Marlowe B West Takez Manhattan is the name of my monthly column here in Steel Notes Magazine ... However ... it is also the name of my band ... I am about to share with you a phenomenal occurrence that I am currently experiencing ... You see ... suddenly ... out of the blue ... I get a call from Phil Stone ... the out of this whirled trombone player of The Brooklyn Horns fame ... He tells me “Marlowe ... you’d be perfect with horns!” ... and so here I go ... Marlowe B West Takez Manhattan is getting this awesome new midnight show together ... It’s an Anne Husick presentation on Saturday, February 27th at Sidewalk NYC ... the hottest most rocking hotspot on the lower east side ... featuring the dynamic Angello Olivieri on bass, Mick Oakleaf on drums, JOff WilsOn on guitar & hopefully, pozzibly, Andy Warhol discovery, Walter G. Steding on violin ... All this backt by the triple dynamite Brooklyn Horns ... let me paint you into the picture here ...
You walk into The Bowery Electric ... Before your eyes can adjust to the low light, you hear the high pitched sound of a trumpet ... Then a fast riff played on a saxophone ... Then you see the motion of a slide trombone ... are you getting excited yet
... well hold on ... There on the stage is the band The Magic Tramps ... a Rock Legend going back to the Golden Age of Sex Drugs and Rock of Ages is holding forth ... The boys are laying down a hard rock number about Max’s Kansas City ... The guitars and drums are great ... and there ... off to one side are three figures dressed mostly in black ... The horns are of a golden color ... the brass reflects the stage lights ... If one looks closely enough, everyone in the place is reflected in those shiny horns ... The men wielding these instruments, making this bold sound are entirely together with the music ... Ask Sesu Coleman ... (one of the original members of the Magic Tramps of whom I have already had the divine pleasure of introducing my reading audience to back in an interview in an earlier issue of Steel Notes) ... what he thinks of his horn section ... He will smile ... answer with one word and walk away ... “COOL!” ... The horn section is The Brooklyn Horns.
Joe Kaminski/Trumpet, Tommy Pezz/Sax and Phil Stone are The Brooklyn Horns ... a top NYC horn section for many years ... They have been in and around the vital New York City music scene a long time ... Sometimes playing alongside music royalty like tonight ... or with up-and-coming but unknown new musical acts ... Phil says “It’s all about the music” ... They started out just three young horn players from
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