I have chosen Dave Valentin who is a 57 year old male flutist, born in New York City. He began playing the bongos and congas before he was 10 and was playing in Latin Clubs by the age of 12. After studying percussion in the High School of Music and Arts, he later converted over to Flute and began to take private lessons with jazz flutist Hubert Laws.
He soon began playing as a professional flutist in Latin bands and created many new techniques. He created a way of blowing into the flute to make it sound like percussion, singing into a flute, and using non-standard flutes such as the bass flute, etc. He applies these techniques to many genres of music, including jazz, R&B, salsa and merengue ( a style of music from the Dominican Republic/ Latin America.) He released his debut album in 1977 with Ricardo Marrero, and won a Grammy nomination in 1985.
The song he is playing is called Obsesion. What I like about this performance is all the unique sounds he can make with his flute, and yet he has a very clear and beautiful sound. He also sways to the beat of the song, showing that he's into it. He has an amazing sense of rhythm, his improvising sounds rehearsed it's so good. And he has to improvise for over 5 minutes, improvising for over 2 choruses/verses is hard enough.
Click to enjoy the stylings of Dave Valentin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ffWLC6ZTro&feature=quicklist
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