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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Herbie Mann, who has died aged 73, was a flautist who pioneered the genre known as "jazz-fusion"; he achieved great success in the 1960s and 1970s with a series of albums which combined jazz with ...