Flautista!
Live album by
Herbie Mann
Released1960
RecordedJune 30, 1959
Basin Street East, NYC
GenreJazz
Length50:17 CD reissue with bonus tracks
LabelVerve
MGV 8336
ProducerNorman Granz
Herbie Mann chronology
Just Wailin'
(1958)		 Flautista!
(1960)		 Herbie Mann's African Suite
(1959)

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

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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

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

References

  1. ↑ Verve Records Catalog: 8300 series accessed July 16, 2015
  2. 1 2 Ankeny, Jason. Flautista! Herbie Mann Plays Afro-Cuban Jazz – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  3. ↑ DeMichael, Don (18 February 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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