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Jazz musicians: horn

13 jazz musicians in the atlas play horn, including Gunther Schuller, Martina Barta, David Amram, Lew Soloff and Günter Sommer. Open a profile for dates, discography and line-ups.

The horn is a brass instrument in the horn family, made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a large flared bell and rotary valves. The term French horn refers to horns with piston valves, seldom used today; the double horn in F/B♭, a variety of German horn, is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the descant and triple horn have become increasingly popular. A musician who plays a horn is known as a horn player or hornist. Pitch is controlled through the combination of the following factors: speed of air through the instrument (controlled by the player's lungs and thoracic diaphragm); diameter and tension of lip aperture (by the player's lip muscles—the embouchure) in the mouthpiece; plus, in a modern horn, the operation of valves by the left hand, which route the air into extra sections of tubing.

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Gunther Schuller 1925–2015 · American composer and conductor (1925–2015) Martina Barta b. 1988 · Czech jazz musician and singer David Amram b. 1930 · American composer, arranger, and conductor (born 1930) Lew Soloff 1944–2015 · American musician (1944-2015) Günter Sommer b. 1943 · German jazz drummer and percussionist, composer and music… Django Bates b. 1960 · British musician Bobby Shew b. 1941 · American musician Pete Levin b. 1942 · American jazz musician Julius Watkins 1921–1977 · American jazz musician (1921-1977) John Clark b. 1944 · American jazz horn player and composer Junior Collins 1927–1976 · American jazz musician Sharon Freeman b. 2000 · American musician Mont Campbell b. 1950 · British musician