Up In The Air by Harold McNair released on Bahamian Rhythms Ltd.in 1964.

..Recorded in '64, yeah, but it don't sound old. Sounds like it was cooked yesterday in some backroom Nassau studio with rum on the floor and smoke in the air. McNair's flute? Man. He flips through these standards like he owns 'em. "Desafinado" - you heard it a thousand times. But this version? Slower. Slimy. Creeps in like midnight...Like concrete under dirt. Track list is all covers - "Fly Me To The Moon", "Witchcraft", "Stella By Starlight" - all that supper club nonsense. But McNair don't play polite. He twists 'em. Makes 'em dance with a limp. "Speak Low" swings like it's drunk but still trying to impress somebody... - Bandcamp Notes

https://harold-mcnair.bandcamp.com/album/up-in-the-air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuvoFjsXqq0&list=RDDuvoFjsXqq0&start_radio=1

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Sonic Squid Music is a new label. Our first dive brings re-releases of past works: underwater soundscapes, night music, a Cuban Yoruba trilogy, free improvisations from Istanbul, Pygmy Bop, or interpretations of West African Fula music.

I’ve launched my own label. Sonic Squid Music is home for the unheard, the unexpected, and the uncompromising. Follow, support, and dive in.

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Heartplants by Gunter Hampel Quintet, released on SABA in 1965.

Inconstant Sol wrote on their blog:

In any discussion of what marks the starting point of European free jazz, this record might be high up on the list. We have posted Francois Tusques' "Free Jazz" in the past which was out in 1965 in France, certainly a turning point in the evolution of French jazz. This combo is German, however, and these are studio recordings from 1964, originally out on the Saba label..

Whether this is "free" jazz as commonly understood, is debatable imho, most of it is fairly melodic...One epithet that might fit, to the extent that these terms carry any determinate meaning, is "structural" jazz and the pieces here certainly are well organised and thought out.

https://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2012/05/gunter-hampel-quntet-heartplants.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRoEpQH8FCE&list=OLAK5uy_lEQCgx9l45CyISTIlZRLClmBv-D-BwYN4

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Conjunto Som 4 by Conjunto Som 4, released on 1964 on Continental

Fantastic work from a young Hermeto Pascoal! The group was his first, recording here in the mid 60s, a few years before he formed the Quarteto Novo with Airto. The overall style is bossa jazz, but the group adds a lot of odd twists and turns, and plenty of dark edges. Hermeto plays flute and piano, and the rest of the group includes bass, drums, and trumpet. A beautifully modernist batch of bossa -- with a sound that's a delight, and mellow grooves that will have you coming back again and again. Titles include "Nana", "Louco De Saudade", "Samba Novo", "Minha Namorada", "Deixa", and "Deus Brasileiro". - Dusty Groove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRRaWoo_4WU

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A Flat, G Flat and C is an album by American jazz multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label.

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated:

Yusef Lateef (heard on tenor, alto, flute, oboe and the mysterious-sounding theremin) is in explorative and consistently colorful form... Lateef performs ten songs (eight are his originals) that are all at least in abstract form related to the blues. Well worth several listens. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_P_IZ6QApw&list=RD7_P_IZ6QApw&start_radio=1

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Joy of Cookin' is an album by American jazz flautist Joe Thomas recorded in 1972 and released on the Groove Merchant label.

Allmusic's Jason Ankeny said: "While not reaching the same heights of Joe Thomas' previous Ebony Godfather LP, the aptly titled Joy of Cookin' boasts a comparable deep-fried funk flavor, fusing the style and sensibility of blaxploitation-era soundtracks with the formal ingenuity of jazz. Horace Ott's big, bold arrangements nicely complement Thomas' sweet, fluttery flute, which navigates in and out of the melodies with the grace of a monarch butterfly". - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27JrydNh_E&list=RDH27JrydNh_E&start_radio=1

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Dig This! is an album by American jazz flautist Bobbi Humphrey recorded in 1972 and released on the Blue Note label.

Review by Thom Jurek

...the young flutist was teamed with bassists Ron Carter and Wilbur Bascomb, Jr., powerhouse drummer Alphonse Mouzon, guitarists David Spinozza and William Fontaine, and keyboardists Harry Whitaker and Paul Griffin. While the album’s formula didn’t deviate that much from her debut -- an easy, tasty balance of soul, pop, and jazz tunes -- the material, production, and Humphrey’s confidence all stand out here... Her version of Whitfield and Strong’s “Smiling Faces Sometimes” is well-known in pop culture for the sample that appeared on Common’s “Puppy Chow,” but taking the tune in full, Humphrey’s gift as a soloist is revealed in full, as she winds around and through funky clavinets, Rhodes, strings, guitars, and Mouzon’s popping snare...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Put6l1MiSh8&list=PLSVyqqGdGIAS6VlUSmdHKiRQp1mqmb_v1&index=4

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Live recording from last night thanks to a friend #harshNoise #jazzFlute #flute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-Ho-XyG_ik

The Roar Of The Greasepaint- The Smell Of The Crowd by Herbie Mann, released on Atlantic in 1965

The Roar of the Greasepaint -- The Smell of the Crowd Review by Scott Yanow

On this out of print LP, flutist Herbie Mann performs 11 songs from a famous Leslie Bricusse-Anthony Newley musical. Joined by an orchestra arranged by Ray Ellis (and including either Chick Corea or Roger Kellaway on piano), Mann plays well enough...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VOxmtYTrOQ&list=OLAK5uy_mJvpmkSZq5bAJDqnMehe9hSQdD101ec1o

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