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 ...
Coltrane was dead. And flautist Herbie Mann's band didn't boast the jaw-dropping hive mind of Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet. What Mann had was a splendid band of creative misfits. Among others: ...
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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 ...
Jazz flutist Herbie Mann, who became an international success by marrying Brazilian and African rhythms to mainstream jazz, has died at the age of 73 after a long battle with prostate cancer, a… By ...
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., ...
The world according to flutist and composer Herbie Mann was a utopian musical paradise where jazz is made up of of Afro-Cuban, Middle-Eastern, R&B, and nearly every other kind of music. In the 1960s, ...
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 ...
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