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USAGirl 
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 05:01 |
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Hello, I play flute and recently discovered the incredible flutist Didier Malherbe. Can anyone recommend other flutists to me? I have listened to a lot of what is in the collection of my sister and her wife, but no-one comes close to him.
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Dick Heath
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 05:44 |
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Jazzers who played jazz rock fusion:
Herbie Mann
Thijs Van Leer (who of course played keys as well in Focus)
Hubert Laws (if you can find it The Chicago Theme is a great album, and then it depends how far you want to go with jazz rockedup classics: Romeo & Juliette)
Dick Morrisey (better known for his tenor sax work) and Dave Quincy of If
Inevitably Ian Anderson's name will come up, the Peter Gabriel (who
IMHO is the prog rock flute equivalent to Mick Jagger playing blues
harp)
Avoid Tim Weisberg, to quote Rolling Stone magazine: 'should play in supermarkets'
And who was the flautist who had an album recorded in the Taj Mahal in
the late 60's and shifted quite a few copies to the freaks?
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USAGirl
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 05:56 |
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I heard Herbie Mann, Thijs van Leer and Ian Anderson, but none of them impressed me as much as Didier Malherbe. Peter Gabriel plays flute like I play violin (I play a little violin, but nothing to brag of). I will look up Hubert Laws and Dick Morrisey. Thank you for the information.
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stonebeard
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 06:03 |
can you say: "Jethro Tull"
underrated and justfiably so
Ian anderson is the master of the rock flute, if there is suck a thing
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 06:07 |
How can someone be "justifiably underrated"?
BTW: Devon Graves is an underated flutist!
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stonebeard
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 06:10 |
 MikeEnRegalia wrote:
How can someone be "justifiably underrated"?
BTW: Devon Graves is an underated flutist!
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i'm sorry. i suck at typing. "unjustifiably underrated"
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USAGirl
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 06:12 |
stonebeard wrote:
can you say: "Jethro Tull"
underrated and justfiably so
Ian anderson is the master of the rock flute, if there is suck a thing
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Ian Anderson is no match for Didier Malherbe. Take that from a flutist.
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stonebeard
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 06:17 |
^^^^^^ i've never heard him (or of him for that matter) but i really have no intrest in persuing prog flutists ( isn't it flautists?). if you don't like anderson, i have nthing else to offer.
BTW, i really suck at typing.
Edited by stonebeard
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USAGirl
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 06:22 |
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both words ("flautist" and "flutist") exist
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stonebeard
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 06:23 |
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^^^^ oh, well that's cool. i think the word "flautist" is silly and will say it no more.
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 06:34 |
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Andy Latimer plays a decently mean blowstick.
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goose
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 06:39 |
Flautist is British, Flutist US. So I'll stick with the "a" 
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 08:09 |
Jon Field of Jade Warrior plays flute plus a variety of ethnic wind instruments. He's probably heard at his best on the four Island albums Floating World, Waves, Kites and Way of the Sun, plus he can be heard on Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.
Traffic's Chris Wood was a talented sax/flautist and his flute playing is well represented on John Barleycorn Must Die.
Away from prog, Rhassan Roland Kirk was a prodigiously gifted multi instrumentalist who was a huge influence on Ian Anderson. His most widely heard piece is the flute solo he played on Quincy Jones' Soul Bossa Nova (the music played during the opening sequence of all 3 Austin Powers movies). He's actually better known for his saxophone playing (sometimes 3 saxes simultaneously) but he also had a real talent on the flute. 'The Inflated Tear' is a good album to start with, but he never made a bad album in his life (which was brief and tragic - he was blind, and died of a stroke aged just 37).
On the outer fringes, German free jazz pioneer Peter Brotzmann took the flute to places it had never been before - not for the faint of heart, but remarkable stuff.
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I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Moogtron III
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 09:05 |
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I love Geoff Richardson's flute playing for Caravan.
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 10:15 |
anne marie helder, from karnataka!
Edited by greenback
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[HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!>
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Dick Heath
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 10:21 |
stonebeard wrote:
Ian anderson is the master of the rock flute, if there is suck a thing |
And I thought you blew it!!!
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 11:25 |
Jimmy Hastings guested on many of the great canterbury works. Check out these solos:
- Love Song with Flute by Caravan from s/t (1968)
- Fitter Stoke has a Bath by Hatfield and the North from The Rotter's Club (1975)
- Didn't Matter Anyway by Hatfield and the North from The Rotter's Club (1975)
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 11:33 |
David Jackson of VdGG is a pretty awesome Flautist/Saxophonist
Angela Goldthorpe of Mostly Autumn is pretty good too.
Although of all of those mentioned, including the ones I just mentioned, I would say that Didier Malherbe is better than all of them.
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USAGirl
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 11:38 |
beterdedthnred4 wrote:
Jimmy Hastings guested on many of the great canterbury works. Check out these solos:
- Love Song with Flute by Caravan from s/t (1968)
- Fitter Stoke has a Bath by Hatfield and the North from The Rotter's Club (1975)
- Didn't Matter Anyway by Hatfield and the North from The Rotter's Club (1975)
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Yes, I have heard Jimmy Haystings before, and I agree he is very good.
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Posted: July 16 2005 at 17:01 |
Listen to the french band La zombie et ses bizons, she's probably not as good as Didier Malherbe, but the samples are worth hearing:
www.la-zombie-et-ses-bizons.com
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