John Douglas Horler (born 26 February 1947) is an English

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pianist. He is the younger brother of jazz musician David Horler and the uncle of

Natalie Horler Natalie Horler (born 23 September 1981) is a singer, songwriter and television presenter, best known for being the lead singer of the Eurodance group Cascada. Early life and family Natalie Horler was born in 1981 in Bonn, West Germany, to Eng ...

, lead singer in the band

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. Horler was born in

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. He began on piano at age six, and learned jazz from his father, a trumpeter. He studied at the

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is one of the oldest music schools in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the firs ...

(1963–67), then played with the big bands of Bobby Lamb, Ray Premru,

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, Dave Hancock, and

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. He worked with

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for much of the 1970s,

Tony Coe Anthony George Coe (29 November 1934 – 16 March 2023) was an English jazz musician who played clarinet, bass clarinet, and flute as well as soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones. Career Born in Canterbury, Kent, England, Coe started out on cla ...

later in the decade, Ronnie Ross for several years in the 1980s, Peter King in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and

Jimmy Hastings James Brian Gordon Hastings (12 May 1938 – 18 March 2024) was a British musician associated with the Canterbury scene who played saxophones, flute and clarinet. Early life Hastings was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He started playing the saxop ...

around the same time as King. He led small groups intermittently and accompanied

John Dankworth Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE (20 September 1927 – 6 February 2010), also known as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist, clarinettist and writer of film scores. With his wife, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, he ...

and

Kenny Wheeler Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, Order of Canada, OC (14 January 1930 – 18 September 2014) was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards. Most of his performances were rooted in jazz, but he w ...

on record.

References

*Mark Gilbert, "John Horler". '' Grove Jazz'' online.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Horler, John Living people 1947 births British jazz pianists Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music 21st-century English pianists

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