Flute Bob
Context
Theme from the Flute Flight session, recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's in March 1957 and released by Prestige under the names of Herbie Mann and Bobby Jaspar, but described by Jazzleadsheets as a Jaspar session. The Liège native, based in New York since 1956, plays flute on it, with Eddie Costa on vibraphone and Tommy Flanagan on piano.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Cool (Birth of the Cool), Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Cool: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Bossa nova, jazz samba.