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Jim Horn

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Jim Horn
Birth name	James Ronald Horn
Born	(1940-11-20) November 20, 1940 (age 84) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Musician, saxophonist
Instrument(s)	Saxophone, flute, piccolo, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, bassoon, recorder

Website	www.jimhornmusic.com

James Ronald Horn (born November 20, 1940) is an American saxophonist, woodwind player, and session musician.^[1]

Biography

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Horn was born in Los Angeles, and after replacing saxophonist Steve Douglas in 1959, he toured with member Duane Eddy for five years, playing sax and flute on the road, and in the recording studio.^[2] Along with Bobby Keys and Jim Price he became one of the most in-demand horn session players of the 1970s and 1980s.

Horn played on solo albums by three members of the Beatles, forming a long association with George Harrison after appearing at the latter's Concert for Bangladesh benefit in 1971. Horn toured with John Denver on and off from 1978 to 1993. He also played with Denver in concert occasionally after the Wildlife Concert in 1995.

He played flute on the original studio recording of "Going Up the Country" by Canned Heat, reproduced in the film Woodstock. Horn played flute and saxophone on the Beach Boys' album Pet Sounds, and played flute on the Rolling Stones' album Goats Head Soup.^[3] Horn also collaborated with Don Williams on at least two songs and toured with Williams for two years.

In 2007, Horn was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville as a member of the Wrecking Crew.

In 1961 Jim's sister, Kathie, married Mike Deasy, a noted session guitarist who also did much work with the Wrecking Crew.

Artists with whom Horn has collaborated

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The 5th Dimension – "Up, Up and Away", "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"
Aaron Neville
Alan James – "Sweet Baby You", "Where It's At" on album Break The Ice (1991)
Badfinger - Badfinger
Barbra Streisand
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds – "Good Vibrations"
Billy Joel
Boz Scaggs – Memphis
Buffalo Springfield – "Broken Arrow" (clarinet)
Burton Cummings – "My Own Way to Rock" (Saxophone)
Canned Heat – "Going Up the Country" (flute)
Captain & Tennille – Song of Joy – "1954 Boogie Blues"
The Carpenters – Carpenters
Chi Coltrane
Christopher Cross – "Ride Like the Wind"
David Gates
Deborah Allen
Delaney & Bonnie
Delbert McClinton – Never Been Rocked Enough
Diana Ross
Dizzy Gillespie – Free Ride
Duane Eddy
Elton John – "Little Jeannie" (alto)
Elvis Presley – "Roustabout" (film)
Frank Sinatra – "Strangers in the Night" (flute)
Garth Brooks – "One Night a Day"
George Benson – "Turn Your Love Around"
George Harrison – 1971 The Concert for Bangladesh – 1974 Dark Horse Tour – "Cloud Nine" – "Got My Mind Set On You"– 1975 Extra Texture – "You".
Glen Campbell
Glenn Frey – "The One You Love" (ending tenor saxophone solo)
Hank Williams, Jr. – "Monday Night Football Theme" – BORN TO BOOGIE
Harry Chapin
Harry Nilsson – Pussy Cats
Herbie Hancock – "Man-Child"
Ike and Tina Turner - "River Deep – Mountain High" (baritone)
Jeff Lynne – Armchair Theatre
Jim Salestrom
John Denver
Johnny Rivers – "Poor Side of Town"
Joni Mitchell
Jose Feliciano – "Light My Fire" and LP Feliciano!
Joy of Cooking – Castles
Kenny Chesney – As of July 2009^[update], Horn is on tour with Kenny Chesney's Sun Carnival Tour. Horn has composed and arranged the horn sections for Chesney for the past several years.
Leon Russell – "Lady Blue"
Linda Ronstadt
Lionel Richie
Little Richard
The Mamas & the Papas – notably "Creeque Alley"
Michael Jackson
Mink DeVille – Sportin' Life
Molly Hatchet - The Deed Is Done
Monk Higgins - Extra Soul Perception
Neil Sedaka – Sedaka's Back
Paul McCartney
Pete Huttlinger
Ringo Starr – "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go"
Rita Coolidge
Ronnie Milsap – Lost in the Fifties Tonight
Roy Orbison
Seals & Crofts – Summer Breeze
Shawn Phillips – "Italian Phases" (soprano saxophone)
Shooter Jennings – Played and arranged horns on album "The Wolf" (2007)
Spiral Starecase – "More Today Than Yesterday" (baritone)
Steely Dan – The Royal Scam
Steve Cropper and Booker T. & the M.G.'s – MEMPHIS (with Kioshiro) – 1992 Tour
Steve Taylor – "I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good"
Stevie Wonder "Ebony Eyes"
The Righteous Brothers – "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" (baritone)
The Rolling Stones – Goat's Head Soup
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
Tom Petty
Toto – "Rosanna", "Africa"
Traveling Wilburys – Volume 1, Volume 3
Van Dyke Parks – Song Cycle
Vince Gill – "I Can't Tell You Why"
Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy (tenor)
Wynonna

Studio albums

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Through the Eyes of a Horn (1972) Shelter Records
Jim's Horns (1973) Shelter Records
Neon Nights (1989) Warner Bros Records
Work It Out (1990)
Children of the Universe (2012) self-released, CD Baby

References

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^ "Welcome to the Official Site for Jim Horn, legendary sax player with The Beatles, John Denver and Garth Brooks among countless others : BIO". Jimhornmusic.com. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
^ Dillon, Charlotte. "Biography: Jim Horn". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved May 17, 2010.
^ Jim Horn credits at AllMusic

External links

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Jim Horn Interview at NAMM Oral History Collection (2017)
Jim Horn discography at Discogs
Jim Horn at IMDb

The Wrecking Crew

Guitars

Electric bass	Max Bennett Carol Kaye Larry Knechtel Joe Osborn Bill Pitman Ray Pohlman

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Percussion

Drums	Hal Blaine Jim Gordon Jim Keltner Earl Palmer

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