I was just curious if any of you knew any jazz music that had a french horn in it. I've only ever heard of one instance in passing, but I'm sure there's at least a few more.

Giovanni Hoffer
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ps0YjxioGR8
I just as recent as 3 days ago discovered a very strong erge for french horn. I heard it someplace and never really gave it much of an ear of interest. Now im hooked, I couldnt believe it sounded as good as it does in a jazz setting.

He has more than just one song and they all sound great.
http://youtube.com/profile?user=giohoffer

Here is a list of 31 Jazz French Horn Players.

http://www.feinsteins.net/music/jazzhorn.html

Also, little known fact, Count Bassie wrote a horn part for each of his charts.

John

LONDON HORN SOUND!

Some people think horn cannot do jazz.... I take offense to that. Hoffer Quattro is proof that horn can do jazz, and so is London Horn Sound, here's of vid of them:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JzdKjXEYJ5g

London Horn Sound uses all Alexander's, I believe, and when you listen to them, you can tell all the different sounds horn can make, especially when you throw a ton of them together in one ensemble.

Also, people say oboe can't do jazz either... well here's Oboman on English horn playing some Ellington. http://youtube.com/watch?v=1Tmrl4ShrSk&feature=user

Horn jazz rocks, start digging it, people.

adam unsworth does some jazz playing

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! I was just about to remark that as a grad student I played in a UW-Madison jazz ensemble with a hornest before I saw the above post. The hornest in question was one Adam Unsworth, in fact. So, is this guy famous now or something?

I played horn in the college jazz band. The director would get one chart each quarter that was specific to horn. All the other time I transposed the alto sax part or trombone parts depending on what the conductor wanted.

I think Jazz horn is a completely different beast than Horn. Bobby Routch and Tom Bacon, and those others who do it make it look easy. Top notch players, all of them.

If it can play music it can play jazz. i have played jazz on the horn before and it sounds pretty good
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horn CAN play jazz...
It's just hard to find music for it.
In a jazz band setting it's probably not ideal, probably why it's so uncommon to see jazz written for horn.
But nobody ever said that horns can't play jazz.

anything can play jazz. anything can play anything really as long as you have the music and arrangements for it. my dad plays jazz piano and he has played with a horn. it seems like you would have to work hard to play really fast though but then again you have to play really fast in classical music too. the whole point of soloing is to be impressive so the horn's large range would be good for that.