Andre 3000 released new music for the first time in 17 years this week. But "New Blue Sun" is not what most fans may have expected. The record has no rap music. What it does have is the flute.

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 ...

André 3000’s Flute Instrumental Dethrones Tool’s “Fear Inoculum” for Longest Song Ever on Billboard Hot 100 André 3000’s much talked about and latest LP, New Blue Sun, a collection of instrumental ...

A composer who wrote some of the world's most popular flute band songs was a "community man ahead of his time" and was known ...

The flute is one of the more overlooked instruments in jazz, but it’s been making an impact on improvised music for more than 50 years. Let 10 experts take you on a guided tour. By Giovanni Russonello ...

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.