A trumpet player myself, I love those bands. I even liked how Huey Lewis and The News used horns too.
Robert Cray used The Memphis Horns on a lot of his records.
Introduced my youngest son to Frankie Valli's trumpet player after their concert NY Eve. I was the proud dad, he had just been named to All City band. One of the backup singers overheard me, and said "I know that town! They have a GREAT music program!"
I ordered a beer, toasting them with a Prosit Neujahr.. Their sax player starts talking to me in German, I found out he lived there nearly 20 years. Besides swapping stories about living in Germany, he told me about several name musicians he worked with. I probably bored him, as many of those musicians were in groups on my IPod. Lol