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Curtis Fuller/Hampton Hawes: Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns

by David Rickert
February 1, 2001

One would be hard pressed to find an instrument less suited to jazz than the French horn. Firmly rooted in classical music and played sitting down, the French horn seems almost to resist being pulled from the orchestra pit. Of course, this didn't stop people from using it. The wide experimentation of the forties and fifties ...