Profile of a Jazz Musician

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Profile of a Jazz Musician
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Studio album by
Paul Horn Quintet
Released1962
RecordedAugust 15, 16 & 17, 1962
Los Angeles, CA
Genre Jazz
Label Columbia CL 1922
Producer Irving Townsend
Paul Horn chronology
The Sound of Paul Horn
(1961)
Profile of a Jazz Musician
(1962)
Impressions of Cleopatra
(1963)

Profile of a Jazz Musician is an album by Paul Horn which was originally released on the Columbia label in 1962. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars calling it: "one of Horn's finer jazz dates". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Paul Horn except as indicated

  1. "Count Your Change" - 4:38
  2. "Now Hear This" - 4:09
  3. "Lazy Afternoon" (Jerome Moross, John Latouche) - 2:44
  4. "What Now?" (Paul Moer) - 4:07
  5. "Straight Ahead" (Moer) - 5:37
  6. "Fun Time" (Neal Hefti) - 3:41
  7. "Because We're Kids" (Friedrich Hollaender, Theodor Geisel) - 3:28
  8. "Abstraction" - 12:02

Personnel

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References

  1. Paul Horn Catalog, accessed July 17, 2015
  2. Paul Horn discography Archived 2015-08-06 at the Wayback Machine , accessed July 17, 2015
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Profile of a Jazz Musician – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved August 17, 2015.