As far as where it’s all going right at this point, there’s going to be an amalgamation of everything. [Flauist Herbie Mann was often ahead of the trend with his wide explorations into sounds from ...

The CD cover of “The Best Of Herbie Mann” features a shot of the late jazz flutist, taken some time in the mid-1960s. The very picture of an urban Jewish hepcat, Mann stares out of the photo looking ...

Herbie Mann, 73, who redefined the flute as an instrument of American jazz, helped create a craze for Brazilian bossa nova in the 1960s and combined musical influences from other countries for some of ...

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, a musician who enjoyed wide popularity in the 1960s and ‘70s by expanding the boundaries of the flute as an instrument in jazz and pop music, has died. He was 73. Mann died late Tuesday ...

After spending the bulk of his musical career playing bebop, funk, and Latin jazz, Herbie Mann has turned his attention to the music of his roots (i.e., the folk melodies of Eastern Europe). At least, ...

Little Herbie Solomon was, every body said, a square. While the other saxophone players at Brooklyn’s Abra ham Lincoln High School were trying to imitate the new bebop style of Charlie (“Bird”) Parker ...

The most popular jazz flutist of the 1960s and ’70s, Herbie Mann, died Wednesday in New Mexico after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 73. Mann was diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer ...