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We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

- Paul Horn
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The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

In 1983, all of us had U.S. passports, but because there was so much tension between America and the U.S.S.R., we were announced as a Canadian group.

After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called 'Inside.' And the music became a very real part of my recovery process.

It was in 1967, and I was on a spiritual pilgrimage to India to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That was before the Beatles saw him, by the way, when not too many people knew of him. Anyway, I visited the Taj and noticed its wonderful sound.

Even back when I played 'straight-ahead,' I mixed it up. I played some free-form, classical adaptations, solo flute stuff. It was New Age in its own way.

It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.

New Age music does something wonderful to the nervous system.

The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming.

Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.

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We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.