Brian Keith "Herbie" Flowers (born 19 May 1938) is an English musician specialising in electric bass, double bass and tuba.

it seems Ron Carter is present in every single jazz album worth listening to from the past 6 decades. Enjoy! 1. In Tangier, Paradise Beach 2. Flying 3. Don't You Know The Way (How I Feel About You) 4. Miss Free Spirit 5. Waltz For My Son 6. Pendulum

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Herbie Flowers began his musical training in 1956 when conscripted into the Royal Air Force: electing at first to serve for nine years as a bandsman playing tuba. He took up double bass as a second instrument to secure his "junior technician" stripe, and later moved to electric bass. After completing his military service he passed through the line-ups of several Dixieland jazz bands in the early 1960s, then discovered modern jazz. In 1965 he was engaged as a bandsman on the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth

Looking back on Herbie’s twelfth album, Head Hunters, which was released on this day in 1973. Recorded at Wally Heider Studios and Different Fur Trading Co. in San Francisco, the album went on to become one of Herbie’s best known records and represented a landmark moment in jazz history. The album was later added to the Library Of Congress’s National Recording Registry which collects "culturally, historically or aesthetically important" sound recordings from the 20th century.

Since the band's demise in the early 1990s, Flowers has spent most of his time playing jazz. He also works as a bass guitar teacher, and leads many 'rockshops' at schools, helping children to create and perform their own songs, as well as covering many others. Flowers is also known for having composed the novelty hit Grandad for Clive Dunn.

Flowers’ sound is defined not just by his bass but also by the strings he uses - and of course by his fingers. I’ve only ever used Rotosound black nylon-wound Tru Bass strings: that set has been on there six years, and I like them because there’s no squeak and I’m no good at slapping. I think it’s good to play with a pick, as well as with your fingers. If you’re booked for a recording studio session, the producer will choose you for the sound that you get and the style you play in. They’ll ask who’s playing on a certain record, and the reply might be 'his name is Herbie Flowers

The Incredible Jazz Guitar O. as his third album but the one that truly put the Indianapolis guitarist on the jazz ma. After the experimental music of his early 70s Mwandishi band fell on deaf ears, Herbie Hancock reinvented himself as an afro-topped jazz-funk wizard with this 1973 blockbuster album, which hit N. on the US jazz charts. The nine-song set begins with a sprightly rendition of George Shearing’s ‘Lullaby Of Birdland’ and a fine, carefree swinger called ‘You’re Not The Kind’, but elsewhere Vaughan serves up some gorgeous ballads, including a wistful ‘April In Paris’ (which finds Brown playing a plangent but lyrical horn solo using a mute) and a sensuous ‘Embraceable You’, where she caresses the.

Criteria: These Jazz Albums were chosen to showcase the artists musical vision through their originality, influence, instrumental quality and creative inspiration. or albums by those artists who were primarily jazz vocalists

Filed under Fusion By HERBIE MANN. Bass – Miroslav Vitous (tracks: A3, B1, B2), Ron Carter (tracks: A1, A2, B3) Cello – George Ricci (tracks: A1, A2, B3), Kermit Moore (tracks: A3, B1, B2) Drums – Bruno Carr (tracks: A1, A2, B3), Mickey Rocca (tracks: A3, B1, B2) Flute – Herbie Mann Guitar – Sonny Sharrock. Vibraphone – Roy Ayers Viola – Al Brown (tracks: A3, B1, B2), Selwart Clarke (tracks: A1, A2, B3) Violin – Manny Green (tracks: A1, A2, B3), Gene Orloff (tracks: A1, A2, B3), Peter Dimitriades (tracks: A3, B1, B2), Selwart Clarke (tracks: A3, B1, B2).