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Many notable French horn musicians struck out in smaller groups, giving the instrument a headliner role in jazz combos. A good account of the presence of the French horn in jazz is Ronald Sweetman's study, A Preliminary Chronology of the Use of the French Horn in Jazz, Further Rev. 1991 Text, Montréal Vintage Society, 1991, ISBN 1-895002-05-2.
Richard Dunbar, was a player of the French horn, playing in the free jazz scene. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 29, 1944, and he died suddenly at the age of 61, apparently of a heart attack, on the way to a gig on February 8, 2006.
John Graas (March 14, 1917 – April 13, 1962) 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.
As a jazz player, he is recognized as one of the first French horn players to forge a career as a jazz sideman. [12] During his career, he played on important jazz instrumental recordings, including Art Pepper's Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics, Stan Kenton's Kenton / Wagner, and Johnny Mandel's I Want to Live!.
Tom Varner (born June 17, 1957 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States) is an American jazz horn (French horn) player and composer.. Varner grew up in Millburn, New Jersey, and studied piano in his youth with Capitola Dickerson of Summit, New Jersey.
John Clark is an American jazz horn player and composer. In Allmusic , Clark is described as "possibly the most fluent jazz French horn soloist since the great Julius Watkins in the 1950s." [ 1 ]
This is a list of notable jazz institutions and organizations ... Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Chicago, Illinois; B
This is a category for jazz musicians who are known for playing the horn or, in some cases, horn-players noted for crossing-over from other genres (such as classical music) and playing jazz. The term 'horn' in a jazz context usually refers to the wind/brass instruments (trumpet, trombone, saxophone) as opposed to 'French horn' players who play ...