Greatest flautists of Progressive Rock? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Bern wrote:

François Richard who played in that awesome fusion band called L'Orchestre Sympathique has amazing flute talent. Rarely I've heard such great flute playing.

Highly recommended unknown band. I recommend you get En concert à la Grande Passe now that it is out on CD. Clap

He is the guy that convinve me to pick up the flute a while ago.

Right on, Bern

L' OS debut is fairly close to early Maneige, but their next two are jazzier (in the pre jazz sense)

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François Richard who played in that awesome fusion band called L'Orchestre Sympathique has amazing flute talent. Rarely I've heard such great flute playing.

Highly recommended unknown band. I recommend you get En concert à la Grande Passe now that it is out on CD. Clap

He is the guy that convinced me to pick up the flute a while ago.

Edited by Bern - October 17 2006 at 17:22

RIP in bossa nova heaven.

I love Jethro Tull, and when I saw them live a couple of years ago, I was amazed how clear Ian Anderson's flute sounded in concert. Still, I'm convinced the greatest flautist in prog is Jimmy Hastings. He's very subtle, not an exuberant showperson like Mr Tull, but every solo I've ever heard him play (especially on Caravan or National Health albums) was a delight!

I completely agree that Anderson is THE prog rock flautist, since my post didn't make that clear.

Syzygy wrote:

All good nominations, but the flute passages on Kobaia are truly magnificent (in my completely objective opinion

). Seeing as the Baldies haven't added their opinion yet, I'd also have to nominate Didier Malherbe of Gong, a brilliant and highly adventurous flautist whose playing is as much influenced by jazz and Indian music as it is by rock. Try Flute Salad for starters, and proceed from there.

Ian Anderson is a highly distinctive flautist but his playing is heavily influenced by the mighty Roland Kirk, as he himself admits. He also admits that he's not that great a player; when Gentle Giant supported Tull in the 70s, the Shulman brothers invited him to play with them but he felt that he wasn't good enough.

Actually Anderson was very adventurous at first.

Although not that highly virtuoso a player, he is always a very modest person re to his playing. He's way too intelligent to ever consider himself a virtuoso (even though he could qualify).

If the Mad Flauter turned down playing with GG, it is mostly because he was completely lost in the extremely complicated rhythms of GG and therefore would've screwed up easily. I don't think anybody in his right mind would accept playing with GG without a solid crash course first.

But our Mad Flauter's real invention was the way he played while saturating the flute the way he did. Some might say it was not the way to play the flute, but he opened up a new way of playing it, IMHO. And THAT makes him one of the best.

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

along with normal flute, blockflote is a great instrument to use in progrock. romanian bands used it with great succes in the 70s, though not for soloing. such blockflote players were bassist iosef kapl for phoenix and dan andrei aldea for sfinx. their reason to use it was that it has a slightly different sound from that of the flute, that they used to immitate the sound of the archaic air instruments of the ancient peasants.

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I like Jon Field, from Jade Warrior; in the firsttwo Vertigo albums; sounds a little like Ian Anderson but more aggressive.

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