A collection of flutists and artists who've used the flute in recent music history—Lizzo, the album cover of Herbie Mann's Push Push, Ron Burgundy playing jazz flute, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, and a ...

Last month, Andre 3000 made one of the most notable left turns in modern music history. Three Stacks, as he's been known in the rap world for the last couple of decades, was part of the Atlanta ...

Around halfway through a set during his Blue Note residency last Thursday, André 3000 took some time to survey his tools. The musician crouched over a rug arrayed with around a dozen varieties of the ...

Avant-garde musicians, harpist Stephan Haluska, who champions cutting edge music as director of Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project, and flutist Robert Dick, have been playing together since 2022, ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our jazz critic Kevin Whitehead has a review of a reissue by flute player Sam Most, who died in 2013. Kevin says Most was never very well-known, despite his influence on other jazz ...

This week, Andre 3000 released an instrumental album featuring the flute instead of an expected rap album. Scott Simon asks LA Times' August Brown about the flute's decades-long role in pop music.

Flutist Julin Cheung uses his talents to influence a new generation. On this episode of On Stage at Curtis, flutist Julin Cheung uses his talents to influence a new generation, drawing others into his ...

The Washington Women in Jazz Festival was born out of the necessity for more feminine representation in the genre. The festival’s founder, Amy K. Bormet, is a vocalist and pianist who noticed the lack ...

How Did André 3000 Learn To Play The Flute? Dre says he “got schooled by Uber drivers,” since he would often play during rides and learned different cultural approaches to the instrument (it does seem ...