Herbie Mann
Herbie Mann
Herbert Jay Solomon, known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet, but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute. His most popular single was "Hijack", which was a Billboard number-one dance hit for three weeks in 1975...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFlute Player
Date of Birth16 April 1930
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I was too successful. I made too much money. Alternate fringe audiences liked me too much, so obviously that can't be important.
Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.
I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.
By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.
I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.
I've just finished four months of chemotherapy and the chemotherapy worked. I'm officially in remission, which I'm very happy about.
My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.
One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.
Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.
If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.
If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.
Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.
I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.
But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.