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
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.
For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.
I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.
What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting.
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
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.