aul Horn died on Sunday at the age of 84 after a brief illness. According to the Hollywood Reporter the New Age pioneer died in Vancouver citing confirmation of his passing from Horn’s son Marlen.
A member of Chico Hamilton's quintet in the mid-1950s replacing Buddy Collette, Horn as a session player later worked with Nat King Cole and Tony Bennett among others and became known primarily as an alto saxophonist and especially as a flautist.
Horn found Grammy success with Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts in 1966 following earlier albums for Columbia The Sound of Paul Horn, Profile of a Jazz Musician, and Impressions of Cleopatra.
Yet it was Inside recorded towards the end of the hippie era at the Taj Mahal in India, a time that also saw Horn study transcendental meditation alongside the Beatles, that paved the way for what is now known as New Age music, a style of music and life discipline that exemplified and largely represented Horn’s later career and for which he will be chiefly remembered.
