This week, Andre 3000 released an instrumental album featuring the flute instead of an expected rap album. Scott Simon asks LA Times' August Brown about the flute's decades-long role in pop music.

Last week, the news that André 3000 would be releasing an album of instrumental flute jams was greeted with enough head-scratching to draw blood. But don’t tell that to Jake Fridkis, who plays ...

Andre 3000's new instrumental album 'New Blue Sun' shows how popular the flute has become ... Starting nearly 60 years ago, flute solos appeared on the Beatles’ “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love ...

During his tenure with the orchestra, he performed solo with the orchestra on three occasions, most recently in the premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s Flute Concerto No. 2 last year, and was a ...

Lizzo has joked she can play her flute ‘where flute solos don’t belong’. The Truth Hurts hitmaker is known for her musicals skills but she could have a future in stand-up comedy after ...

She brought up Future’s “Mask Off,” one of the biggest hits of the last few years, and said that “the chorus was just a flute solo.” She went on, “I think that flute and hip-hop are ...

Ms. Winker then lifted her instrument and launched into the “Allemande” from Bach’s Partita in A Minor for solo flute. It immediately “hit me right in my heart,” Mr. Stein said.

It gets a lot of its witchy allure from Bud Shank’s alto flute solo, which he reportedly improvised in one take. Advertisement. 4. Canned Heat, “Going up the Country” (1968) ...

Flute solos, jazz harp, and "baroque pop" sounds abound on Luna Li's new album, "When a Thought Grows Wings." She says the project explores how ideas "take flight and become tangible." ...