| Flautista! | ||||
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| Released | 1960 | |||
| Recorded | June 30, 1959 Basin Street East, NYC | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 50:17CD reissue with bonus tracks | |||
| Label | Verve MGV 8336 | |||
| Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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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]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| 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]
All compositions by Herbie Mann except as indicated
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