Paul Horn

We just had John Anthony West on, and then every time I think I've sort of got the latest on Egypt, something new kind of creeps up.

And I heard some stuff in your book about Paul Horn and the acoustics in the King's Chamber, which was very interesting.

But I was wondering if you'd paid attention to that news article that came out about the thermal anomalies in one of the pyramids there.

Yeah, I did.

It was a free improvisation course.

And it was with the great flute player, Paul Horn.

It was a winter course that cost me a bunch of money.

Well, a bunch of extra money for a college student in my undergrad.

But Paul Horn was known for doing like flute at the Pyramids of Giza.

And he did like flute in Taj Mahal.

And he had a jazz quintet.

Yeah.

And the music is by Paul Horn.

Is it? Well, Paul Horn's music is featured in it, at least I think in the jazz club.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Is that Paul Horn playing on the flute?

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

I'm also gonna go back in time.

You can hear in the background Raga Desh by Paul Horn.

So some of the focus on the subcontinent actually became prevalent with some of the jazz musicians of the era.

People like John Coltrane, Donald Byrd, Miles Davis, and Paul Horn, who went over to India to both study Indian classical music and also play Indian classical music.

So I talked a little bit about, um- Shoreditch, Hoxton.

Now, way back in the early '90s, it was, um, it was sparse.