Looking for Vintage Jazz flute records. What are your favorites? - Tiki Music

B BC-Da-Da Member Joined: Aug 14, 2002 Posts: 161	B BC-Da-Da Posted posted on Thu, Feb 7, 2008 7:29 AM Stay in the '50s! That's my advice. Anything by Paul Horn, Herbie Mann, Buddy Collette, Bud Shank and Roscoe Weathers from the '50s is unbelievably cool. With Buddy Collette and Bud Shank, you wanna check to make sure they are playing flute on those albums, because they were also great sax players. Also, as for the '60s, I like Hubert Laws on Atlantic Records, and the "Folk 'n' Flute" album by Bud Shank is one of my all-time faves. For the absolute tops in beatnik/exotica/flute jazz, you can't go wrong with "Afrodesia" by Bob Romeo, his Flute, and his Jungle Sextet. It's a very rare album, but it features a bevy of the top West Coast cool jazz guys, plus three of the songs are written by Eden Ahbez. The album is from 1956... proto-exotica. The tunes are hypnotic... there's no one else like Bob Romeo.

Stay in the '50s! That's my advice.

Anything by Paul Horn, Herbie Mann, Buddy Collette, Bud Shank and Roscoe Weathers from the '50s is unbelievably cool. With Buddy Collette and Bud Shank, you wanna check to make sure they are playing flute on those albums, because they were also great sax players. Also, as for the '60s, I like Hubert Laws on Atlantic Records, and the "Folk 'n' Flute" album by Bud Shank is one of my all-time faves.

For the absolute tops in beatnik/exotica/flute jazz, you can't go wrong with "Afrodesia" by Bob Romeo, his Flute, and his Jungle Sextet. It's a very rare album, but it features a bevy of the top West Coast cool jazz guys, plus three of the songs are written by Eden Ahbez. The album is from 1956... proto-exotica. The tunes are hypnotic... there's no one else like Bob Romeo.

Post #359744 by BC-Da-Da on Thu, Feb 7, 2008 7:29 AM