Herbie Mann
Herbie Mann (* April 16, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York, † July 1, 2003 in Santa Fe), actually Herbert Jay Solomon, an American jazz and fusion flutist and composer was (initially also a clarinetist and saxophonist ). He is one of the early representatives of world music.
Life and work
Herbie Mann began his musical career as a tenor saxophonist in a military band in Trieste. In the early 1950s he returned to New York and toured with the Quintet of the accordionist Mat Mathews. During this time, he moved to the flute as the main instrument.
In 1954 he was a member of Pete Rugolo band took on plates with Sam Most and worked as a studio musician on the West Coast. First recordings under his own name originated in 1954 for the Bethlehem label with Joe Puma ( " Herbie Mann Plays" ). In 1956 he participated in Quincy Jones ' debut album, This Is How I Feel About Jazz. In 1959 he founded his "Afro - Jazz Quintet", entered the Newport Jazz Festival, and was in 1960 on a State Department tour in Africa and in Brazil in 1961, which then had a strong influence on his later music (including Latin Fever 1962 on Brazilian themes and musician, he always comes back ). His commercial breakthrough he achieved in 1962 with the album "At The Village Gate ". He had a hit entitled Coming Home Babe from this album. This man was known to a wider audience; he led from 1957 to 1970, the Down Beat polls of the most popular jazz flutist at.
Mid-1960s, he traveled to Brazil and played with the stars of popular Brazilian music such as Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto. He then worked in the Middle East with oud musicians and the bagpipe player Rufus Harley; his attempt to deal with the music of the Middle East a new trend did not succeed. In 1968, he joined with his band from Roy Ayers, Sonny Sharrock, Miroslav Vitous and drummer Bruno Carr at the Berlin Jazz Festival. With a similar occupation in 1969 was the album Memphis Underground. He was in the 1960s and 1970s, one of the best-selling musician of Atlantic Records, which until 1979 he was under contract in 1959. At Atlantic, he worked as a producer, where he among other things, Recordings by Chick Corea ( Tones for Joan's Bones ), Miroslav Vitous ( Mountains in the Clouds ), Roy Ayers, Sonny Sharrock, Attila Zoller, Jim Pepper and Ron Carter produced.
In the 1970s, advanced man his musical spectrum and worked with rock artists such as Duane Allman, the Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar ( " London Underground", 1974) and with reggae musicians. His numerous trips to Jamaica ( Reggae Album 1974). Mid -1970s, man distant far from jazz and had a Discohit with "Hi- Jack".
In the 1980s he moved to - for economic reasons - to solo concerts, performing with Glen Moore, Frank Gravis and Badal Roy and operated with a new own label, The Alternative, on his albums " Mellow " ( from his Montreux appearance in 1977 ) and " Forest Rain" appeared. In 1982, he performed with his band, the "Family of Man ", in Frankfurt and in Bombay.
In the 1990s, he founded his own label Kokopelli, but rose again in 1996 from there. Herbie Mann played a total of more than one hundred plates. He worked among others with Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughan, Machito, Baden Powell, Art Blakey, the Bill Evans Trio (Nirvana 1962) and Chick Corea.
In 1989 he moved with his wife, actress Susan Janeal Arison, from New York to Santa Fe. In 1997 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which he at the age of 73 years finally succumbed despite years of struggle on 1 July 2003.