Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moaning strings and sudden percussive bursts, followed the austere style of the ancient gagaku court music of Japan, then shifted in the second movement to a distinctly Western hymnal theme. In the final movement, strains of East and West were interlaced in a rapid rhythmic pattern between the koto, flute and harp. Though sometimes lost in the thicket of strings, the high-strung koto proved a solo instrument of intriguing versatility. At the end, Stokowski locked arms with Eto and led him on and off the stage for three curtain calls...
...nova, thumping Afro-Cuban, variations on a North African tribal chant, a Middle Eastern treatment of the theme from Fiddler on the Roof, a brooding interpretation of a classical piano piece writ ten in 1888 by French Composer Erik Satie. Mann also introduced a new gimmick: he played a flute improvisation against a tape recording of eerily exotic, centuries-old gagaku music, played by the royal musicians of Japan's imperi al court, a memento picked up when Mann played with the gagaku musicians during a tour of Japan three months...
Mann's flute is a sparrow in the treetops, lightly flitting and chirping above a heavy, sensuous beat laid down by the rhythm section On alto flute, the mood is more softly introspective, evoking languid afternoons by the sea. The music is easy on the ears, mildly diverting in its melodic simplicity and ease of ap proach. Mann plays with eyes closed, standing disjointedly and undulating as if to entwine himself around the microphone, conscious that "some chicks just come to see me move. They're stone-deaf freaks, but I'm not knocking it." He doesn...
Mann scored his breakthrough when he discovered that the gentle flute, an upstaged squeak in the company of flashy trumpets and saxophones, could best flex its personality against a background of drums. Mann formed an Afro-Jazz Sextet and embarked in 1959 on a highly successful four-month tour of 17 African countries...
Confident that he has now achieved his life's ambition-"to be to the flute what Benny Goodman is to the clarinet"-Mann is looking for new worlds of music to translate into the third thing. "At the moment," he says, "I'm very interested in American Indian music. There's more to it than just boom-boom, boom-boom, you know. The possibilities are endless...