In the late 1940s and early ‘50s, Paul Horn studied music formally—first at Oberlin College and then, on a graduate level, the Manhattan School of Music, finishing in 1953. His first recordings were with the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra in mid-1956. Then that fall, he moved to Los Angeles, where there was enormous demand for top jazz session musicians who c…
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