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Release Date: 26-10-1998
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Catalog Number: 15015-2
Barcode: 13711501520
Musical Style: Jazz
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benny's Buns [02:58] | 9 | Count Your Change [04:37] |
| 2 | Mirage for Miles [11:50] | 10 | Short Politician [04:46] |
| 3 | Fun Time [03:40] | 11 | Lazy Afternoon [04:06] |
| 4 | Love and Hate [03:21] | 12 | Anthony and Cleopatra Theme [03:55] |
| 5 | Moer or Less [04:05] | 13 | Just Because We're Kids [03:25] |
| 6 | Abstraction [12:03] | 14 | Cleopatra's Palace Music [04:50] |
| 7 | Caesar and Cleopatra Theme [04:01] | 15 | Without A Song [03:39] |
| 8 | My Funny Valentine [05:17] | 16 | Yazz Per Favore [04:29] |
Description:
Long before Paul Horn became known as one of the founders of new age music, he was admired for his innovative work as leader of his own jazz quintet. With The Jazz Years, Black Sun has recreated the excitement of those influential sessions from 1961 to 1963 in which the alto sax/flute player developed a highly personal style and a group character unlike any other. The Jazz Years features seven tracks from The Sound of Paul Horn. Benny's Buns, an original named for the owner of the Renaissance Club, is an unconventional blues composition that sustains its intensely urgent feeling through Emil Richards' expert vibes riffs. Mirage for Miles, dedicated to Miles Davis, provides a showcase for the band's melodic invention. Horn and company also prove to be masterful interpreters of standards on tunes like My Funny Valentine and Without a Song. The Jazz Years also includes five selections from Profile of a Jazz Musician and four from Impresssions from Cleopatra, an album based on Alex North's exotic score for the movie. As critic Leonard Feather writes: Though his jazz years were a prelude to many other musical and spiritual adventures, the products of that period have clearly withstood the inroads of time. With a repertoire of originals and well-chosen standards, the Horn Quintet left an impression that is reinforced by this long-overdue reissue.''
Biography:
A classically trained flautist, Paul Horn played jazz with Chico Hamilton, served as a top studio musician in Los Angeles and recorded with his own quintet in the early 1960s. During that time, he won two Grammy® Awards for his Jazz Suite On The Mass Texts. Increasing dissatisfaction with the Hollywood lifestyle led Horn to India on his search for alternatives, where he studied meditation and began to explore other ways of playing his instrument. The success of his intuitive and contemplative improvisations on Inside the Taj Mahal proved that audiences were ready for a new approach and opened the door to a series of recordings inside acoustic and architectural wonders around the world, including Inside the Great Pyramid and Inside the Cathedral. Both Horn's cross-cultural collaborations and his highly refined works for more conventional Western ensembles have garnered much critical acclaim.
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