Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann – Nirvana (1964/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:15 minutes | 358 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Nirvana is an album by jazz flautist Herbie Mann with Bill Evans’s Trio featuring Chuck Israels and Paul Motian, released in 1964 on the Atlantic label and featuring performances recorded in 1961 and 1962.

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Herbie Mann – Flautista! (1960/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:48 minutes | 933 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Flautista! (subtitled Herbie Mann Plays Afro Cuban Jazz) is a live album by American jazz flautist Herbie Mann recorded in 1959 for the Verve label.

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating ” Flautista!, recorded live at New York City’s Basin Street East in June 1959, captures the flutist’s deepening immersion in global rhythms and harmonies, documenting a pan-cultural jazz aesthetic that points the way for the myriad world music efforts that followed in its wake”.

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Herbie Mann – Caminho de Casa (1990/2004)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:44 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chesky Records

Caminho De Casa was flutist Herbie Mann’s third album with his group Jasil Brazz and his first for Chesky Records. Re-issued for the first time in Hybrid Multi-Channel SACD, this 1990 recording from the legendary RCA Studio A in New York City features a rich repertoire including compositions from prominent Brazilian composers of the time including Ivan Lins, Milton Nascimento, Nelson Ayres and Roberto Carlos.

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Herbie Mann – Brazil, Bossa Nova & Blues (1962/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:18 minutes | 633 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Brazil, Bossa Nova & Blues (also released as Brazil Blues and Jazz Impressions of Brazil) is an album by American jazz flautist Herbie Mann recorded in 1962 for the United Artists label.

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating “A slightly expanded version of flutist Herbie Mann’s 1961-62 group performs African-, Cuban- and Brazilian-influenced jazz on this appealing LP”.

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East Coast Jazz, Vol.4 – Herbie Mann (1954/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 23:27 minutes | 361 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: PrestoClassical | Front Cover | © Bethlehem Records

Jazz flute innovator Herbie Mann is the focus of this fourth installment in producer Creed Taylor’s East Coast Jazz series, initiated to differentiate the jazz coming out of New York from the jazz being produced in California in the mid-1950s. This 1954 session was Mann’s first record as a solo artist, originally issued on 10-inch vinyl.

Mann contributes three original tunes incuding The Purple Grotto, written at the request of New York disc jockey Al “Jazzbo” Collins who was a big fan and wanted Mann to write something “moody and funky”.

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