According to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography, the French horn in jazz recordings dates back to 1921, when Vincent Lopez's brass band recorded The Sheik of Araby for Black Swan in New York. By the 1930s, the instrument was popping up on recordings by Bing Crosby and Woody Herman. In the 1940s, Artie Shaw, Claude Thornhill, Harry James and other bandleaders i…
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