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Herbie Mann Biography

Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet (including bass clarinet), but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute. His most popular single was "Hijack", which was a Billboard No. 1 dance hit for three weeks in 1975.

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Let's say you have some chicken stock and you're making soup, and out of everything you can taste, some of the things you put in and some of the things you don't. So you start out with an African spice then you hear some Brazilian music, so then it changes. Then you hear Jamaican and it changes again. And the result depends on how much of each spice you put into it. Now, I've been putting in spices since I started playing professionally in 1945.

Professionally, Say, Soup, Spices, Taste

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.

Make, Mistake, Needs, Organize, Records, Somebody

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.

Inspiration, Jazz, Labeled, Like, People

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

Heritage, Hungarian, Hungarians, Romanian, Russian

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

Age, Band, Know, Playing, Wine

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

Bad, Bad Things, Selfish, Stubborn

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

Basically, Critics, Jazz, Kenny

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.

California, Daughter, Mother, Move, Moving, Son

I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.

Aware, Cancer, Foundation, General, Men, Prostate

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.

Head, Reality, Right, Technology, Thinking

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

Coming, Jazz, Know, Music, Sand

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.

Melody, Mix, Music, Perfect, Play, Style

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

Cancer, Decided, Done, Important, Looks, Time

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.

Concerned, Ifs, Nobody, Time

Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.

Cancer, Gay, Look, Thinking, Treatment, Women

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

Blues, Jazz, Live, Music, Play

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

Look, Mean, Sacrifice, Selfish

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.

Atmosphere, Give, Giving, Interesting, Play, Recording