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Last but not least are the many individual horn players who have participated in these recordings.

We can easily consider this the chamber music of jazz.

Small group situations, including those with hornists as group leaders, also provide similar possibilities, on a more intimate scale.

The horn has provided more possibilities in the palette of sound available to these writers. They give composers and arrangers an opportunity to create more organized sounds.

Big bands are often referred to as the orchestras of jazz music.

The list is divided into 3 sections: the horn in big bands and orchestras, the horn in small group situations of less than 10 players, and the hornist as group leader. (88 KB) is intended to give players a starting point for finding historically or musically significant tracks. While performances of jazz certainly do involve on-the-spot improvisation and large sections of music that are never written down, recordings can still give us solid documentation of a moment in time in the development of the music.

Where does one start to discover the multitude of musical situations throughout jazz history that have included our instrument? Fortunately, almost the entire history of jazz music has been thoroughly documented through recordings. One can argue, in these situations, that most hornists have never seen the deep, jazz forest through the slightly jazz influenced, classical trees. Or we play the wonderful music of Alec Wilder, Doug Hill or some Fripperies and believe that we now have gained all we need to know about playing jazz style music. As outsiders, we occasionally hear something played in a jazz style and think ”oh, that’s nice” but then return to playing and listening to music that our instrument is most associated with. Often, a traditional education for hornists lacks any kind of basic overview of jazz history and more significantly, how correct performance practice (to use a classical term) applies to the diverse styles found within the idiom. Since this space does not allow for an exhaustive or thorough overview, what follows will hopefully provide some basics for further exploration.

The intent was to introduce the audience to a sampling of the wide variety of musical situations the horn has found itself in over the last 100+ years. The following is a brief synopsis of the presentation given at the International Horn Society’s 50th Symposium.