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, ...

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 ...

[Flauist Herbie Mann was often ahead of the trend with his wide explorations into sounds from everywhere. When I asked him in this 1978 interview where music in general was heading, he talked about a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1319145/1319146" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player ...