About Lyn Horton

Lyn Horton's introduction to jazz came in the form of a concert by the Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1968. By the time she was in the Studio Art Masters program at California Institute of the Arts, she had become an ardent fan of the music. As she worked in her studio, jazz from KBCA was always playing on her radio. Having moved to the east coast in the mid-70's to establish her New England residence, it was in 1996 that Horton began to write about the music. With the encouragement of UMass Amherst radio disc jockeys, her writing career took hold. Contributing at first in 1998 to JazzReview.com, by 2005, she decided to widen her reach by writing for AllAboutJazz.com which she did until 2010; from 2007 to 2010, she contributed to AllAboutJazzNewYork, now the The New York City Jazz Record, and wrote at one point for Downbeat. In 2010, she created her own blog, "The Paradigm for Beauty"(http://lynhorton.blogspot.com). The majority of her attention goes to creative improvised music, otherwise known as "avant-garde" jazz. Its process resembles most closely the process of her own visual art.

Lyn Horton joined the JazzTimes community on Oct 19, 2009