Flautista! (subtitled Herbie Mann Plays Afro Cuban Jazz) is a live album by American jazz flautist Herbie Mann recorded in 1959 for the Verve label.[1]

Flautista!
Live album by
Released1960
RecordedJune 30, 1959
Basin Street East, NYC
GenreJazz
Length50:17 CD reissue with bonus tracks
LabelVerve
MGV 8336
ProducerNorman Granz
Herbie Mann chronology
Just Wailin'
(1958)
Flautista!
(1960)
Herbie Mann's African Suite
(1959)

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [2]
DownBeat     [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings    [4]

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars stating " Flautista!, recorded live at New York City's Basin Street East in June 1959, captures the flutist's deepening immersion in global rhythms and harmonies, documenting a pan-cultural jazz aesthetic that points the way for the myriad world music efforts that followed in its wake".[2]

Track listing

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All compositions by Herbie Mann except as indicated

  1. "Todos Locos" - 5:35
  2. "Cuban Patato Chip" - 7:45
  3. "Come on, Mule" - 7:18
  4. "The Amazon River" - 8:35
  5. "Caravan" (Juan Tizol) - 9:46
  6. "Delilah" (Victor Young) - 6:06 Bonus track on CD reissue
  7. "Basin Street Este" - 5:12 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Verve Records Catalog: 8300 series accessed July 16, 2015
  2. ^ a b Ankeny, Jason. Flautista! Herbie Mann Plays Afro-Cuban Jazz – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  3. ^ DeMichael, Don (18 February 1960). "Herbie Mann: Flautista". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 4. p. 32.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 935. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.