Flautista! Explained

Flautista!
Type:Live album
Artist:Herbie Mann
Cover:Flautista!.jpg
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
Chronology:Herbie Mann
Prev Title:Just Wailin'
Prev Year:1958
Next Title:Herbie Mann's African Suite
Next Year: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

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".

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

Notes and References

  1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/verve-records/catalog-8300-series/#mgv-8336 Verve Records Catalog: 8300 series