Jazz World has last a great man! Herbie Mann dead at 73
 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,90953,00.html

SANTA FE, N.M. — Herbie Mann, the versatile jazz flutist who combined a variety of musical styles and deeply influenced genres such as world music and fusion, has died. He was 73.

Mann, who had battled prostate cancer since 1997, died late Tuesday, according to a friend, Sy Johnson. A funeral home in Santa Fe said it was making arrangements with Mann's family.

Mann had moved to Santa Fe in the late 1980s after spending most of his life in his native New York City.

I am trying to get more educated about jazz, which is kinda hard when all anyone I know listens to is rock or other popular music. I'll have to find some of his music.