Paul Horn

Paul Horn (born March 17, 1930, New York City, New York, USA - died June 29, 2014, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) was a Grammy Award winning American jazz flutist, alto saxophonist, clarinetist and composer.

Classically trained and educated, Horn was an active member in the 1950`s west coast jazz scene, recording with Chico Hamilton, Shorty Rogers and Buddy Collette among others. In the late 1950`s and early 1960`s with his own group, he took up a more modal approach to playing, influenced by Miles Davis. In addition to a large discography of jazz recordings, Horn is considered one of the pioneers of new age music, in which the flute became his main instrument.

His 1968 album of solo flute and vocals (Inside, also known as Inside The Taj Mahal) has sold over three quarters of a million copies and launched a series of Inside records recorded in natural and sacred sites with unique acoustic properties. Both Inside and Inside II were top 10 albums on the Billboard jazz chart. Horn won two Grammy Awards for his 1965 album Jazz Suite On The Mass Texts. Other Grammy nominated albums include Cycle (1965), Traveler (1987), and Inside Monument Valley (1999). In 1990 he published his autobiography Inside Paul Horn (The Spiritual Odyssey Of A Universal Traveler), co-authored by [a315650]. He is the father of [a=Robin Horn].