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Herbie Mann & Phil Woods: Beyond Brooklyn
by George Kanzler
Herbie Mann and Phil Woods met when they were two barely adult beboppers jamming together at a joint called Tony's Bar on Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn in 1951. A couple years later, Woods would play on Mann's Yardbird Suite LP. They finally shared the front line on an album again with this CD, the last Mann ...
Classic Herbie Mann
by WBGO 88.3FM
For the past 40 years, flutist Herbie Mann has taken the instrument in several different directions, performing in a wide variety of musical styles including straight-ahead and soul and pop-jazz, as well as world music, and most recently Eastern European music. A cancer survivor, Mann's latest project is a crusade for prostate cancer awareness.
Savoy Jazz Reaches 60, But Looks Beyond
by R.J. DeLuke
Every so often someone in jazz has their career resurrected. Different elements feed into that. Good luck; a sudden public “discovery;" Perseverance. Going on in jazz right now, however, is the resurrection of an old tried and true recording label, Savoy Jazz. It's the result of hard work and a desire to maintain classic ...
Flute Flight
By Herbie Mann
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: Tutti Flutie/ Bo-Do/ Flute Bass Blues/ Flute Bob/ Solacium.
Rio De Janeiro Underground
Label: 441 Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: She Walks This Earth; Easy Going; Rio De Janeiro Underground; For Donato; Aparecida; Cornfield; Dipper Mouth; Estrela Guia; Sweeping The Chimney; Leblon; Avenida Central; Nira;
Herbie Mann/Bobby Jaspar: Flute Flight
by David Rickert
Flautists are the 98 pound weaklings in the jazz musician crowd, constantly working hard to prove that their chosen instrument has serious jazz credentials. Herbie Mann and Bobby Jaspar were two of the few who made the flute their primary instrument, and both had their moments, Mann as a leader and Jaspar with JJ Johnson. However, ...
Herbie Mann/ Bobby Jaspar: Flute Flight
by Derek Taylor
Concept albums were all the rage back in the late Fifties, and jazz music was no exception among genres. Popular within this certain niche was the notion of featuring instruments uncommonly featured in lead roles. The result was a flood of records fielded by everything from French horns to accordions to harps. One album cut for ...
Live At The Whiskey A Go Go / Mississippi Gambler
By Herbie Mann
Label: Sine Qua Non
Released: 2001
