Music festival
Satoru Shimazaki will
perform his solo "Geki
Sei" at the Seventh
Annual Electronics
Music Festival at 8 p.m.,
Saturday in Hill Hall.
The festival is
sponsored in part by
the UNC Department of
Music. More
information on page 2.
Weekend sports
Larry Dick will be
starting Saturday at
quarterback for
Maryland when the Tar
Heels travel to College
Park. The special
teams could make the
difference in the
contest;' Francis
Winters attempts to
block a field goal
against Texas Tech.
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Herbie Mann, the man with the flute, brings his special brand
of jazz to Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. today. A veteran of many
international tours, Mann has put together a repertoire with
stylistic elements from all over. Latin, Oriental and African
motifs color Mann's music, and the combination must be a
successful one he has won many Down Beat Magazine
Awards as the leading jazz flutist in America. Tickets are on
sale at the Union Desk.
Jazz flautist
at Memorial
Leading jazz flutist Herbie Mann,
who put flute playing squarely in the
mainstream of jazz music, plays at
Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. tonight.
In the last decade, Herbie Mann not
only has established himself as the
outstanding flutist in jazz but also has
managed to become one of a handful of
jazz musicians to make a significant
breakthrough as a pop attraction.
Herbie Mann has gone to Africa,
South America, Europe, the Middle
East and even Japan, to the very source
of the many types of music he has
featured. Through this devotion to
music in various forms he has managed
to bring in major innovations and then
move on to something still newer while
others were busy copying his recent
works.
The noted flutist was born in 1930 in
Brooklyn of Romanian and Russian
parentage. He started playing piano at
the age of six but eventually swjtched to
flute.
His four years in the Army gave him
his first insight into European music. At
this time flute was given short shrift
insofar as its acceptance as a significant
jazz instrument. Herbie declared, "If a
man can play jazz, he can play jazz on
the flute," and set out to do just that.
Inspired by the late Esy Morales'
Jungle Fantasy record, he began to
develop new techniques on the flute. He
worked with Pete Rugolo's Band in
1954, then visited Europe again in 1956,
touring Scandinavia, France and
Holland working with local rhythm
sections.
Within a year he had won his first of
many Down Beat Magazine Awards as
the leading flutist. He soon became
established in New York for his Afro
Cuban works.
By 1960, now firmly identified with
the flute, he toured Africa on a State
Department tour. The following year
his tour of South America gave him new
insights into Latin music. Since then he
also has made constant excursions
abroad, forever seeking new musical
inroads while still maintaining his firmly
established reputation both artistically
and commercially.