Herbie Mann helped to popularize the flute as a jazz instrument and introduced the music of other cultures into the mainstream of American jazz. His first instrument was clarinet, and when he began his career he was primarily a tenor saxophonist. But by the late 1950's he was concentrating on flute, a choice almost unheard of for a jazz musician at the time. In 1962, he became one of the first American jazz artists to embrace Brazilian music and work with Brazilian musicians, recording an album

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