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This is a list of flute players, organized alphabetically by the musical genre in which they are best known, and whose notability is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles. Young Flutist, or The Fifer by Édouard Manet (1866)
Instrument (s) Flute, vocals. Years active. 1971–present. Labels. Blue Note, Epic, Malaco, Paradise Sounds. Barbara Ann " Bobbi " Humphrey (born April 25, 1950) is an American jazz flautist and singer. She has recorded twelve albums over the course of her career, mostly playing jazz fusion, funk, and soul-jazz.
Barbara Morgan. Barbara Radding Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space program as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. She then trained as a mission specialist, and flew on STS-118 in August 2007.
Claire Chase (born 1978), recitalist, recording artist and arts entrepreneur. Valerie Coleman (fl. 1997), flautist and composer contributing to chamber music. Elena Duran (born 1949), Mexican-American flautist, concerto appearances and recordings with major orchestras. Cynthia Folio (born 1954), composer, flutist, music theorist and academic.
Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE (27 July 1944 – 9 July 2022) was an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer. She studied clarinet, flute, piano and classical composition at the Royal College of Music, but the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane made her shift her interests to jazz and saxophone. She was married to drummer Jon ...
Robert Mirabal (born October 6, 1966) is a Pueblo musician and Native American flute player and maker from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. His flutes are world-renowned and have been displayed at the Smithsonian Institution 's Museum of the American Indian. An award-winning musician and leading proponent of world music, Mirabal performs worldwide ...
Charles Mingus, Quincy Jones. Rahsaan Roland Kirk (born Ronald Theodore Kirk; August 7, 1935 [1] – December 5, 1977), [2] known earlier in his career simply as Roland Kirk, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute, and many other instruments. He was renowned for his onstage vitality, during which virtuoso ...
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), [1] known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet (including bass clarinet), but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute.