Funny how sometimes a new experience makes you reconsider an artist you’d already made your mind up about a long time ago. Whereas Hubert Laws plays with flawless technique and execution of brilliant ...
We know from the subtitle of The Evolution of Mann: Herbie Mann and the Flute in Jazz that the book has a specific focus. “That’s because of all the things that Herbie did in bringing world music to ...
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From one of the freshest voices in the Kansas City jazz scene, we kick off the 895th episode with David Watson and his smooth vocal stylings from his 2020 album, The Ludlow Affair. Then, we take a ...
Herbie Mann was a fascinating artist. Not only was he a masterful jazz flutist but he also crossed over to Latin, funk, soul, bossa nova and rock and pioneered world music. His curiosity and ability ...
The first time I heard Herbie Mann, I thought, “Finally! Someone who speaks my language!” I was in high school, the only flutist in the jazz band, and a little jealous of my bandmates. The ...
I first met Herbie Mann in January 1979, when I noticed him bursting out of a phone booth in the parking lot of Tower Records in L.A. It wasn’t the noted jazz flutist in the flesh, of course, but ...
Herbie Mann, who helped to popularize the flute as a jazz instrument and to introduce the music of other cultures into the mainstream of American jazz, died late Tuesday at his cabin in Pecos, N.M., ...
Jazz flutist Herbie Mann, who helped usher in the Bossa Nova craze of the 1960s, has died. Mann made his mark in the late 1950s when he added a conga player to his band. He's been credited with ...
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