Jim Horn
Jim Horn ( James Ronald Horn, born November 20, 1940 in Los Angeles, California) is an American saxophonist and flutist. Since the early 1960s, he is one of the busiest session musicians under the winds in the area of rock and pop music.
Career
Horn began his career in 1958 with Kip Tyler and the Flips to listen to published in the November 1958 Single Rumble skirt. From March 1959 he was a member of the backing band of Duane Eddy, the Rebels. He played with King Curtis, in the band of U.S. TV show Shindig and in the studio of Phil Spector. Spector's Wall of Sound productions, " You've Lost That Lovin ' Feelin ' " by the Righteous Brothers and " River Deep Mountain High " by Ike & Tina Turner were among the first big hits on which horn was heard. This was followed in the 1960s studio work with the Beach Boys (on " Pet Sounds " ), Van Dyke Parks, the Carpenters and the Mamas and Papas. The early 1970s, he played on albums by Leon Russell, George Harrison and Joe Cocker. Harrison invited him to play in the Concert for Bangladesh in 1974 and took him to the Dark Horse tour. After sessions with the Rolling Stones ( " Goats Head Soup" ), Elton John, Warren Zevon and Steely Dan, he played from 1979 for John Denver. In the 1980s recordings came with such diverse artists as Ronnie Milsap and U2 to do so. Vince Gill, Garth Brooks, Wynonna, the Traveling Wilburys, Toto and Billy Joel were later also to the artists, songs can be heard on their horn. He played on the solo albums of all four former Beatles.
Hits
Selection of hit songs on which Jim Horn can be heard as a saxophonist, flutist or oboist:
- River Deep, Mountain High ( Ike & Tina Turner)
- Ride Like the Wind ( Christopher Cross )
- Little Jeannie ( Elton John )
- Angel of Harlem (U2 )
- Good Vibrations ( Beach Boys)
- Got My Mind Set On You ( George Harrison)
- Strangers in the Night ( Frank Sinatra )
- Goin 'Up the Country ( Canned Heat )
- Up, Up and Away and "The Age of Aquarius" ( The Fifth Dimension )
- For All We Know ( The Carpenters )
- Tears of a Clown ( Smokey Robinson & the Miracles )
- Laughter in the Rain ( Neil Sedaka )