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John Graas: French Horn Jazz
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
According to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography, the French horn in jazz dates back to 1921. By the 1930s, the instrument was popping up on recordings by Bing Crosby and Woody Herman. In the 1940s, Artie Shaw, Claude Thornhill, Harry James and other bandleaders included the horn when they added strings. Neal Hefti used Vincent Jacobs on French horn when he recorded Repetition with Charlie Parker in 1947. Junior Collins was on the horn during Miles Davis's “Birth of the Cool" ...
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Justin Mullens Pushes The Boundaries Of The French Horn & Offers New Compositions On "The Cornucopiad"
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
ON BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND RECORDS (MARCH, 2016) “The spirit of the organization is firmly rooted in Brooklyn. All of the members reside there, and they wanted to give a nod to the vitality of its scene."—The Wall Street Journal The Cornucopiad Features The Justin Mullens Octet: Justin Mullens (French Horn), Chris Cheek (Alto Sax & Clarinet), Peter Hess (Bass Clarinet), Ohad Talmor (Tenor Sax), Peter Thompson (Guitar), Desmond White (Bass), Matt Ray (Piano), Marko Djordjevic (Drums) CD Release Celebration- March ...
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Recent Listening: Jeffrey Snedeker's French Horn
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Jeffrey Snedeker, Minor Returns (JS). Snedeker is a rarity, a first-chair symphony French horn artist who understands jazz time, phrasing and feeling. In settings from quartet through big band to 41-piece string orchestra, he pays homage to the horn's role in jazz. Snedeker solos on pieces associated with the music's handful of French horn heroes, including Julius Watkins, David Amram, Willie Ruff and John Graas. Among his colleagues is the perennial French horn poll winner Tom Varner, one of the ...
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Seattle Times: Tom Varner Brings Jazz French Horn to a Sacred Space
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Seattle Jazz Scene
From The Seattle Times: At its best, jazz is hand-tailored music that can be shaped to fit just about any setting. For French-horn master Tom Varner, a concert in the intimate, resonant Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center offers an opportunity to design a program calibrated for a sacred space. Saturday’s performance, part of the Wayward Music Series, features Varner in a variety of contexts, from solo to quintet, exploring a cross section of music he’s written since ...
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"Give It One" the World's First French Horn Big Band CD
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All About Jazz
Cala Records announces the release of Give It One, with The London Horn Sound Big Band the first-ever big band of French horns. Featuring nineteen of Londons finest horn players and pianist Gwilym Simcock, Britain's Jazz Musician of the Year, Give It One covers the jazz spectrum with a dazzling array of standards and new compositions. The sound of this unique ensemble is extraordinary, like no big band ever heard before. Conductor of Give It One and Artistic Director of ...
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The French Horn, That Wild Card of the Orchestra
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Michael Ricci
The modern French horn, with its complex tubing and finger keys at the center, has come a long way from its hunting party origins. Orchestral instruments don't come more treacherous than the French horn, either for the musicians who play it, or, when the going gets rough, for the listeners who find themselves within earshot. Sometimes you wonder how the instrument found its way from the hunting lodge to the orchestra. At the Mostly Mozart Festival in recent weeks, the ...
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