Flautista!

1960 live album by Herbie Mann

Flautista!

Live album by

Herbie Mann

Released| 1960
Recorded| June 30, 1959
Basin Street East, NYC
Genre| Jazz
Length| 50:17 CD reissue with bonus tracks
Label| Verve
MGV 8336
Producer| Norman Granz
Herbie Mann chronology
| Just Wailin'
(1958)  | Flautista!
(1960)  | Herbie Mann's African Suite
(1959)

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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.[1]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [2]
DownBeat| [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [4]

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".[2]

## Track listing

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All compositions by Herbie Mann except as indicated

1. "Todos Locos" - 5:35
2. "Cuban Patato Chip" - 7:45
3. "Come on, Mule" - 7:18
4. "The Amazon River" - 8:35
5. "Caravan" (Juan Tizol) - 9:46
6. "Delilah" (Victor Young) - 6:06 Bonus track on CD reissue
7. "Basin Street Este" - 5:12 Bonus track on CD reissue

## Personnel

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* Herbie Mann \- flute, bass clarinet
* Johnny Rae \- vibraphone, marimba
* Knobby Totah - bass
* Santo Miranda - drums, percussion
* Carlos "Patato" Valdes \- congas, percussion
* José Luis Mangual \- bongos, percussion

## References

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1. ^ Verve Records Catalog: 8300 series accessed July 16, 2015
2. ^ a b Ankeny, Jason. Flautista! Herbie Mann Plays Afro-Cuban Jazz – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
3. ^ DeMichael, Don (February 18, 1960). "Herbie Mann: Flautista". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 4\. p. 32.
4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 935\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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Herbie Mann

Atlantic
albums|

* Herbie Mann at the Village Gate (1961)
* Nirvana (1964)
* Today! (1966)
* New Mann at Newport (1967)
* Memphis Underground (1969)
* Mississippi Gambler (1972)
* Surprises, Featuring Cissy Houston (1976)

A&M albums|

* Glory of Love (1968)

Embryo
albums|

* Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty (1970)
* Memphis Two-Step (1971)
* Push Push (1971)

Prestige
albums|

* Flute Flight (1957)
* Flute Soufflé (1957)
* Just Wailin' (1958)

Riverside
albums|

* Sultry Serenade (1957)
* Great Ideas of Western Mann (1957)

Other
labels|

* Jasil Brazz (1987)

Other
articles|

* Discography
* "Hi-jack" (1975)
* Kokopelli Records
* Afterlife (soundtrack) (1978)

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