Herbie Mann for jazz/rock fusion

the first time I heard of Herbie Mann was a cd in hands of my flutist classmate,she was working with my teacher. my teacher has a band and wanted her to play flute for his album with the inspiration of Mann's style. I saw that hairy album cover  and it really got me...


I was listening to herbie mann and was thinking why he's not in this home of prog.
he's mostly mentioned as soul/jazz but he has beautiful prog stuff,the beautiful and soulful flow of melodies.
I'm gonna share some stuff here







am sure many music geeks here know this guy, but for those who are about to know,enjoy the journey :)

that picture was awesome 

and I'm enjoying the hell of the music you shared 

I hope they reconsider him and let us have this beauty in here

Logan wrote: Push Push has one of the most iconic album covers of all time, at least in worst-of lists. ;) If you think that album cover's something, perhaps check out Sean Connery in Zardoz (and a dog). Think I informally discussed the possibility of Herbie Mann with the Jazz-Rock Fusion team at one time years ago, and they weren't too keen

Guldbamsen wrote: I love Herbie and have some 5 (maybe 6?) albums of his. Not sure whether he fits on PA though as I’ve always thought of him as a jazz musician....but sure Stone Flute and a couple of other albums feels like fusion.

To be honest I'm not certain either. But he's got a handful of albums that's undoubtly jazzrock-fusion. I'm not always certain where you draw the line between a jazz fused with rock considered progressive and a similar fusion not considered progressive. I'd be more certain about Michael Naura, Dave Pike Set, Akira Ishikawa & His Count Buffalos, The Full Moon Band mm... 

Herbie Mann as prog rock musician would definitely be a first in the world of musicology.

As Hughes already pointed out, every jazz musician in the world cut a couple fusion albums in the early 70s. You can't blame a working musician for following the money, and that was where the money was at in those days.

Here are some more jazz musicians who cut a couple fusion records; Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Ahmad Jamal, Les McCann, Pharoh Sanders, McCoy Tyner, Carlos Garnett, Elvin Jones, John Schofield, Don Cherry, Stanley Cowell, Gil Evans, Wadada Leo Smith, Harry Beckett, Gary Burton, Charles Lloyd, Harold Land, Joe Farrell, Ernie Watts, Jim Hall, Bobbi Humphreys, Phil Woods, Cannonball Adderly, Kenny Barron, Darius Brubeck, and there is more.

Edited by Easy Money - November 08 2018 at 20:12

with this logic then why can't we add Funkadelic here?sure they have a couple of records which happen to crossover with progressive music.
and the things is why don't we cast all these guys as prog related? or proto-prog in that matter,since that movement led to jazz/rock fusion later

katatonia wrote: with this logic then why can't we add Funkadelic here?sure they have a couple of records which happen to crossover with progressive music.

We can actually - at least in theory... as its exactly how and why hundreds of bands and artists that are mainly purely jazz or mainstream rock (or funk, new age, new wave etc...) have been added to the archives already.