Hail Herbie

Well, one cool thing about last night's Academy Awards was that Summer of Soul won an Oscar for Best Documentary — which ties in nicely with this tribute to the late, great jazz flautist Herbie Mann (whose incredible 1969 band with Roy Ayers and Sonny Sharrock makes a tantalizingly brief appearance in the film) that I penned for today's Forward.

You can read it here:

https://forward.com/culture/484609/herbie-mann-jewish-jazz-artist-herbert-solomon-flute-hunter-thompson/