{"id":4452,"date":"2014-07-07T04:43:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T04:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/07\/07\/paul-horn-father-of-new-age-music-dies-aged-84\/"},"modified":"2014-07-07T04:43:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T04:43:36","slug":"paul-horn-father-of-new-age-music-dies-aged-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/07\/07\/paul-horn-father-of-new-age-music-dies-aged-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Horn, father of new age music, dies aged 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flexible-content-body\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/paulhornmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-Horn-with-flute.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"221\" height=\"252\" \/><br \/>Internationally acclaimed musician Paul Horn has died aged 84.  Nicknamed the father of new age music, he performed with artists such as  Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Miles Davis throughout his career. According  to a statement, the award winning artist died in Vancouver, Canada, on  29 June after a brief illness. &#8220;He passed away very peacefully and did  not suffer,&#8221; said Horn&#8217;s son Marlen. &#8220;He wasn&#8217;t in any pain.&#8221;  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Nominated  for five Grammys, Horn made 50 albums over five decades, and was  renowned for his deep philosophical principles, studying transcendental  meditation alongside the Beatles with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.<\/p>\n<p>While  records such as Inside the Taj Mahal and Inside the Great Pyramid  helped pioneer the new age music genre, his album Jazz Suite on the Mass  Texts won two Grammys in 1966, including the best original jazz  composition award.<\/p>\n<p>Survived by his wife Ann Mortifee, his sons  Robin and Marlen, stepson Devon and his grandchildren, a private  memorial-celebration of life is being planned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The family has  been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support from people  around the world who admired Horn as a musician and respected him as a  man of great integrity and deep philosophical principles,&#8221; reads a  statement.<\/p>\n<p>An influential figure in jazz and world music, fans  and artists have paid their respects to Horn on social media. &#8220;Very sad  to hear of the passing of my all-time favourite flautist who had a quite  amazing life  Paul Horn RIP,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gillespeterson\/status\/485026366367477760\">wrote Gilles Peterson<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internationally acclaimed musician Paul Horn has died aged 84. Nicknamed the father of new age&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}