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Christianson changed the horn culture here in Montreal, says producer Ian Terry.
Author of the article: Brendan Kelly • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Feb 17, 2021 • February 17, 2021 • 3 minute read • Denny Christianson at home in 1997. Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal Gazette files
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Denny Christianson ended up in Montreal because of Diane Dufresne. Well, actually because of the legendary pop diva Dufresne and her producer at the time Ian Terry.
Dufresne and Terry were in Los Angeles in the summer of 1979 recording her classic album Strip-tease, with some of the city’s top session players, including keyboardist Tom Canning and drummer Jim Keltner. When Terry asked who he should get to do the horn arrangements, Canning and Keltner suggested he call up Chris