French composer and pianist Claude Bolling achieved what might be considered the best example the Gunther Schuller's “Third Stream" that elusive synthesis of classical music and jazz improvisation, in ...

Pianist Steve Barta continues his musical travels through Brazil that started with Blue River (Source Music, 2001), a collaboration with flautist Herbie Mann. Mann joined Barta on Another Life Brazil, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From 1963’s “Herbie Mann Live at Newport” to “Super Mann” 16 years later, Mann landed 22 albums in the Billboard 200, two of which — 1969’s “Memphis Underground” and 1975’s ...