Herbie Mann Death Cause and Date

Herbie Mann's Death

Born (Birthday) April 16, 1930

Death Date July 1, 2003

Age of Death 73 years

Cause of Death Prostate Cancer

Profession Flute Player

The flute player Herbie Mann died at the age of 73. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Jazz flautist and composer who was an early pioneer of the fusion of jazz and world music. More than twenty of his albums made the Billboard Top 200 charts.

He married Ruth Shore on September 8, 1956; Jan Cloonts on July 11, 1971; and Susan Janeal Arison in 1991.

Herbie Mann, who helped to popularize the flute as a jazz instrument and to introduce the music of other cultures into the mainstream of American jazz, died late Tuesday at his cabin in Pecos, N.M., near Santa Fe, where he lived. He was 73. . The cause was prostate cancer, his family announced.

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Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

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My father’s father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

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My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.

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But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer – that word means to most people ultimate death – I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

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I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

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