Booker T. Jones is a Recording Academy/GRAMMY.com contributor.
If you've ever heard the brilliant unison horns that play the starting phrases on records such as "Knock On Wood," "Hold On, I'm Comin'" or "In The Midnight Hour," then you've experienced the excitement that the Memphis Horns can stir when opening a song.The enthusiasm exhibited by these extraordinary session players appears on every recording take, every rehearsal and every…
(This year Andrew Love and the Memphis Horns were honored with The Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award. The following tribute ran in the GRAMMY Awards program book. Love died April 12 at the age of 70.)If you've ever heard the brilliant unison horns that play the starting phrases on records such as "Knock On Wood," "Hold On, I'm Comin'" or "In…
