Brother Ah

Brother Ah (Robert Northern, 1934-2020) was an American French horn player, multi-instrumentalist and teacher. Born in Kinston, North Carolina, and raised in the Bronx, he worked as a session player in New York jazz before turning to a meditative, spiritual music shaped by his study of African traditions, which he recorded with his Sounds of Awareness ensemble. Brother Ah studied at the Manhattan School of Music and played French horn with John Coltrane (Africa/Brass, 1961), Gil Evans, Donald Byrd, McCoy Tyner and Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra.