Herbie Mann was a fascinating jazz figure. The flutist and saxophonist was a dominant player in the 1950s, recording prolifically as a leader and sideman, and always bringing tremendous swing and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Herbie Mann, the versatile jazz flutist who combined a variety of musical styles and deeply influenced trends such as world music and fusion, has died. He was 73. Mann, who had battled prostate cancer ...

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, 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 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 ...

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 ...