Herbie Mann
Herbie Mann
Herbert Jay Solomon, known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet, but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute. His most popular single was "Hijack", which was a Billboard number-one dance hit for three weeks in 1975...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFlute Player
Date of Birth16 April 1930
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
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.
I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.
By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.
I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.