Love him or hate him, flutist Herbie Mann was in the groove and on top of just about every major music trend between mid 1950s and the 1980s and paved the way for World Music in the '60s. Admittedly, ...

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 Tuesday ...

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 ...

As far as where it’s all going right at this point, there’s going to be an amalgamation of everything. [Flauist Herbie Mann was often ahead of the trend with his wide explorations into sounds from ...

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 ...

Inspired by the success of Pink Talking Fish, a new group will interpret the music of two other notable artists. This band will take cut a wider swath in blending the sounds of pioneering jazz fusion ...

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 ...

Herbie Mann, 73, who redefined the flute as an instrument of American jazz, helped create a craze for Brazilian bossa nova in the 1960s and combined musical influences from other countries for some of ...