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
The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.
If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.
When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
You know, my mother is 95 and lives alone in Florida. So, you know, I ain't ready to throw in the towel. I still have lots of music that I want to do.