JIMMY HOROWITZ


Biography

Bands/Discography:

Solo albums / musicals: He's probably best known as producer and a magnificent arranger, but as my site is more biased to musician players, I've included here as keyboardist. He was born in 1945, in Liverpool, England. He married to beautiful singer Lesley Duncan, to whom he produced all her best albums.

BLUESOLOGY  

This band was formed in 1966 by Long John Baldry. They went through several lineup changes. Some of the musicians were:

They released 3 singles from 1965 to 1967, but I don't know the lineups in all those singles.

There's an album called Rare tracks, where we can also find Caleb Quaye playing in some tracks. The band dissolved in 1968, but Jimmy played with Baldry many years later, as we're going to read.
 

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Marsha Hunt
Stuart Brown
Alan Walker
Rex Bishop
Fred Gandy
Marc Charig
Elton Dean
Mick Inkpen
Pete Gavin
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Bernie Holland
Caleb Quaye
Neil Hubbard
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Long John Baldry
Elton John
QUIET MELON 

This was a project initially led by veteran Art Wood (from The Artwoods, and brother of Ron Wood). Through a few spare gigs with changing lineups, this served as the seed for Faces (all the members played here: Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, Kenny Jones), plus others such as the late Kim Gardner (bass) or Long John Baldry. The lineup for a one-off gig in May 1969 included Jimmy Horowitz too:

 
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Ian McLagan
Kenny Jones
Kim Gardner
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Long John Baldry
Rod Stewart
Ron Wood
LESLEY DUNCAN BAND  

Jimmy's relationship with Lesley Duncan was very close, as they were married at that time. Jimmy produced most of her albums, and he also assembled and played live bands to back her. This was the lineup for September 1972:

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Lesley Duncan
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Chris Spedding
Andy Bown
Madeline Bell
THE FACES  

A magnificent, powerful band. Although they always were a quintet, their last tour (August to November 1975) saw them reinforced with a 6th musician, the late Jesse Ed Davis on guitar. Jimmy Horowitz also toured with the band, as conductor for the string section that was used every night in a couple of songs:

Soon after the tour was over, the band split. A very missed band, I loved them.
 
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Tetsu Yamauchi
Jesse Ed Davis
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Ian McLagan
Kenny Jones
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Rod Stewart
Ron Wood
LONG JOHN BALDRY 

Jimmy Horowitz rejoins old friend Long John Baldry in 1987:

Long John Baldry (vocals)
Papa John King (guitar)
Butch Coulter (harp)
Pete Shannon (guitar)
George Ford (bass)
Jimmy Horowitz (keyboards)
John Lee Saunders (sax)
Kristen Nash (sax)
Vince Dietrich (drums)
Sibel Thrasher (backing vocals) I don't know how much time Jimmy stayed in the band.
 
 
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Papa John King
Butch Coulter
Pete Shannon
George Ford
John Lee Saunders
Kristen Nash
Vince Dietrich
Sibel Thrasher
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Long John Baldry
SOLO ALBUMS / MUSICALS 

Dick Deadeye was an animated movie whose music was composed by Jimmy Horowitz. An album was released with excerpts from this score in 1974, credited to Jimmy. The voices in the movie were made by some friends: Long John Baldry, Linda Lewis, Liza Strike, producer Ian Samwell, etc.

Musicals:

Marlowe was a musical from 1981, composed, orchestrated and arranged by Jimmy Horowitz.

Sessions

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Related links: From the always interesting Alex's Picks (by Alex Gitlin), we have: From the superb site Knights in Blue Denim: The British Blues Scene '68 - '70 (by Christer Fridhammar & Vanja), we have:
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