It is sad and amazing but Herbie Mann was often criticized during his day....he was not considered a jazz heavy weight by many....what these "critics" did not get that he was a master flute player and his synthesis of latin styles was brilliant.....he also created a wonderful groove with his play...
a song so beautiful and haunting, that you don't need to know the words...from the minute I head this I fell in love with the song and this magical musician of the brazillian soul......
Jeremy Steig is my hero-he is a tremendous player and really one of the great lost treasures of jazz. He is also someone who was all alone on the jazz stage for many years with this instrument, although James Moody and Fathead Newman, Rahsaan Kirk and Frank Wess were wailing away. What Jeremy di...
It is sad and amazing but Herbie Mann was often criticized during his day....he was not considered a jazz heavy weight by many....what these "critics" did not get that he was a master flute player and his synthesis of latin styles was brilliant.....he also created a wonderful groove with his play...