Herbie Mann – America/Brasil

> Recorded live at The Blue Note, New York, during a week of concerts to mark Mann’s 65th birthday in April 1995

> America/Brasil is a rollicking, celebratory album, with the emphasis on Mann’s Brazilian side

> Features percussionists Cyro Baptista, trumpeters Randy Brecker and Claudio Roditi, trombonist Jim Pugh, and guitarist Romero Lubamb

Herbie Mann was an American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinets (including bass clarinet), but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute and was perhaps jazz music’s preeminent flutist during the 1960s. His most popular single was “Hijack,” which was a Billboard number-one dance hit for three weeks in 1975.

 

TRACKLISTING
1. Keep The Spirits Singing
2. Summertime 
3. Peri’s Scope
4. Baghdad/Candle Dance
5. Ovo
6. All Blues
7. America/Brasil