Members: Brad Warnaar, Bruce Cassidy, Fred Stone

Rob McConnell assembled the original Boss Brass from Toronto’s studio musicians. The instrumentation of the The Boss Brass was originally sixteen pieces, consisting of trumpets, trombones, french horns and a rhythm section, but no saxophones (woodwinds). McConnell introduced a sax section in 1970, and expanded the trumpet section to include a fifth trumpet player in 1976, bringing the total to 22 members.