André “3000” Benjamin is set to release his debut solo album, “New Blue Sun,” an entirely instrumental album centered around woodwinds.. Co-produced by Benjamin and multi-instrumentalist ...

These flutes are tuned to a minor pentatonic scale (5-note scale), so all of the notes within that scale sound good together in any order. The 5-hole flutes are a bit easier to play, but they are ...

PACIFICA — When Gail Edwards’ flute students get hung up on the fingering or rhythm of a song, her advice is to “just be free and play it as if you were singing.” The allusion to singing ...

Wood Flute Songs comes in a handsome and unfussy little cardboard box, with a fat program book containing fine art reproductions and William Parker's notes. Its six recorded concerts are also ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Each one of the six performances captured on this 8-CD live set confirms bassist/composer William Parker as a ...

André 3000’s first solo album has no rapping, but a lot of flute. On ‘New Blue Sun,’ out November 17, the former Outkast rapper gets into wind instruments.

The father-of-two said: “I played the flute and at 16 I started working and going to college studying engineering and put the two together. “There was a lack of good quality wooden flutes.

André “3000” Benjamin is set to release his debut solo album, “New Blue Sun,” an entirely instrumental album centered around woodwinds.