The Story of a Jazz Musician - Paul Horn Part 1

1 of 3. This is the story of Paul Horn, as told by David Wolper in one of the first of his famous biographies. It was filmed during the jazz years in Paul Horn's career, long before he achieved his fame for solo flute in amazing places like the Taj Mahal, the Great Pyramid and the Potala Palace.

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Music

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• Paul Horn
• David Wolper
• Jazz
• Flute

[ronaldjevans]

In this 1962 film, one can watch Paul Horn's composition "Count your change" develop into a great piece of music, with eight bars of 4/4 followed by 6 bars of 5/4. In the last part of the film, "Count your change" is performed at Shelly's Manne-Hole. The Paul Horn Quintet here consists of: Paul Horn (alto sax), Paul Moer (piano), Emil Richards (vibes), Victor Gaskin (bass), Milt Turner (drums). The same Quintet recorded "Count your change" on the 1962 album "Profile of a jazz musician".

[ChristopherHedge]

Wow! Nice info. I'll make sure Paul checks out your comment. Of course you've seen "Sweet Smell of Success".

Cheers,

Chris

[rubensz]

amazing!

[ronaldjevans]

At 2:47, Paul is playing "Without a Song", which is from the 1929 musical "Great Day", with music composed by Vincent Youmans.

[ChristopherHedge]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for commenting.

Cheers,

Chris

[pcgantz]

Oh, nice, Bean. I hadn't realized you'd put this up! Very cool.

[TheyCallMeGroucho]

This was nice... I started listening to Paul Horn around the early '70s. I lost track of him after a while, but he does have a website. The video here has a nicely-done style. Thanks for putting this up Chris.

Larry in Taiwan

[yurplestummies]

This is very cool Chris. I watched them in backwards order so it gave me a different perspective.