Results for "French Horn"

Jeffrey Agrell

Born: February 25, 1948

Associate Professor of Horn Jeffrey Agrell retired from the University of Iowa School of Music after teaching horn and creative music there 2000-2021. Before that he was Associate Principal Horn in the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland) 1975-2000. He has won awards as both a composer and a writer, with well over one hundred published articles to his credit and many compositions published, recorded, and performed worldwide on TV & radio, concert stages, festivals and competitions. At the University of Iowa he taught a course in nonjazz improvisation from 2001 to 2021, and is the author of nine books on this type of improvisation, including Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians, Vol

Alex Brofsky

Born: June 21, 1960

AB+ has performed and recorded with many of the world's finest musicians including: Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Lenny Kravitz, Quincy Jones, Jim Hall, Michael Brecker, Gil Evans, McCoy Tyner and many others. He was one of the top artists on mp3.com throughout its history, and is now one of the top selling artists on eMusic.com. He has produced for many top Acid Jazz, Pop and R&B / Hip Hop artists with major radio airplay. Currently he is working on a new album with singer Michael Slattery. AB+ is constantly putting out new music so keep checking his pages for the latest jointz!!

Julius Watkins

Born: October 10, 1921

Julius Watkins was an American jazz musician, and one of the first jazz French horn players. He won the Down Beat critics poll in 1960 and 1961 for "miscellaneous instrument" with French horn named as the instrument. Watkins was born in Detroit, Michigan. He started playing French horn when he was nine years old, having played the trumpet, the recognized jazz instrument, for the Ernie Fields Orchestra in the mid-1940s. By the late 1940s, however, he had played some French horn solos on Kenny Clarke and Babs Gonzales' records. After moving to New York City, Watkins studied for three years at the Manhattan School of Music

John Graas

Born: March 14, 1917

John Graas was an American jazz French horn player, composer and arranger from the 1940s through 1962. He had a short but busy career on the West Coast, and became known as a pioneer of the French horn in jazz.

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Adam Unsworth

Born: December 29, 1968

The highly disciplined, truck driving, pavement pounding, nail banging, Civil War buff (His self-renovated fixer-upper even dates back to 1865), and proud papa of three debunks popular music mythology: classical musician does not equal jazz artist. Adam Unsworth, French hornist with The Philadelphia Orchestra since 1998 embraces the jazz idiom with the same guile and gusto as he does everything else in life. At age 10, Unsworth confided in his first horn instructor, a professor at the local University, “I’m going to be principal horn of The Philadelphia Orchestra.” Well, almost, but the fall of 2005 is where the story takes an alternate route. His ride began in 1968

Tom Varner

Born: June 17, 1957

Tom Varner--one of the world's top jazz French horn players, and an inventive composer for his many ensembles. Tom has 11 cd's out as a leader,and he plays on over 70 others. After 26 years in Manhattan, Varner moved with his family to Seattle in fall 2005, and is now busy in the Northwest as well as in the international scene.

John Graas: French Horn Jazz

April 24, 2019

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 ...