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Barbara Ann ("Bobbi") Humphrey (born April 25, 1950) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 flautist
Flautist

A flautist, flutist, or flute player is a musician who plays the flute....
 and singer
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
 who plays fusion
Jazz fusion

Fusion or, more specifically, jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a musical genre that merges jazz with elements of other styles of music, particularly funk, Rock and roll, R&B, electronic music, and world music, but also pop music, classical music, and folk music, or sometimes even Heavy metal music, reggae, ska, country music, hip hop...
, jazz-funk
Jazz-funk

Jazz-funk is a sub-genre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat , electrified sounds, and often, the presence of the first electronic analog synthesizers....
 and soul-jazz styles. Bobbi Humphrey has performed for audiences around the world.

Biography
She was born in Marlin, Texas
Marlin, Texas

Marlin is a city in Falls County, Texas, Texas, United States. The population was 6,628 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Falls County....
, and raised in Dallas
Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third largest city in the state of Texas and the List of United States cities by population in the United States.The city, with a population of over 1.3 million, is the main economic center of the 12-county Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex which contains 6.1 million people, and is the fourth-largest United States metropolitan area...
. Her flute training included classical and jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 styles in high school. She continued her studies at Texas Southern University
Texas Southern University

Texas Southern University is one of the largest Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the United States. Located in Houston, Texas, the university was established on March 3, 1947 by the Texas Legislature....
 and Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University is a private university, coeducational university in University Park, Texas, Texas . Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU currently operates campuses in University Park, Plano, Texas, and Taos, New Mexico....
. Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
 saw Humphrey play at a talent contest at Southern Methodist, and inspired her to pursue a musical career in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
.






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Barbara Ann ("Bobbi") Humphrey (born April 25, 1950) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 flautist
Flautist

A flautist, flutist, or flute player is a musician who plays the flute....
 and singer
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
 who plays fusion
Jazz fusion

Fusion or, more specifically, jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a musical genre that merges jazz with elements of other styles of music, particularly funk, Rock and roll, R&B, electronic music, and world music, but also pop music, classical music, and folk music, or sometimes even Heavy metal music, reggae, ska, country music, hip hop...
, jazz-funk
Jazz-funk

Jazz-funk is a sub-genre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat , electrified sounds, and often, the presence of the first electronic analog synthesizers....
 and soul-jazz styles. Bobbi Humphrey has performed for audiences around the world.

Biography


She was born in Marlin, Texas
Marlin, Texas

Marlin is a city in Falls County, Texas, Texas, United States. The population was 6,628 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Falls County....
, and raised in Dallas
Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third largest city in the state of Texas and the List of United States cities by population in the United States.The city, with a population of over 1.3 million, is the main economic center of the 12-county Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex which contains 6.1 million people, and is the fourth-largest United States metropolitan area...
. Her flute training included classical and jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 styles in high school. She continued her studies at Texas Southern University
Texas Southern University

Texas Southern University is one of the largest Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the United States. Located in Houston, Texas, the university was established on March 3, 1947 by the Texas Legislature....
 and Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University is a private university, coeducational university in University Park, Texas, Texas . Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU currently operates campuses in University Park, Plano, Texas, and Taos, New Mexico....
. Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
 saw Humphrey play at a talent contest at Southern Methodist, and inspired her to pursue a musical career in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. She followed his advice, getting her first big break performing at the Apollo Theatre
Apollo Theatre

The Apollo Theatre is a listed building West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. Designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield, and the fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street, its doors opened on 21 February 1901 with the United States musical comedy The Belle of Bohemia....
 on Amateur Night. She eventually began playing regularly throughout the city, including a gig with Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
.

By 1972, she was recording for the Blue Note Jazz label, the first female instrumentalist to do so. Humphrey has played with well-known musicians, ranging from Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
 to Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter....
. Guitarist George Benson
George Benson

George Benson is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is however, better known to the public at large as a Pop music and R&B singer, famous for such hits as "Give Me the Night", "Lady Love Me ", "Turn Your Love Around", "Inside Love", "In Your Eyes", and "This Masquerade", among...
 and Humphrey were guest musicians on Humphrey's friend Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
's single "Another Star" from his Songs in the Key of Life
Songs in the Key of Life

Songs in the Key of Life is an album by American musician Stevie Wonder, released on Motown on September 28, 1976 . It was the last of five consecutive albums widely hailed as his "classic period", along with Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale....
 (1976) album. In 1976, she was named Best Female Instrumentalist by Billboard. In 1994 Humphrey launched her label, Paradise Sounds Records, releasing Passion Flute, which continues to be one of her best-selling recordings.

Bobbi Humphrey has played at the Apollo Theatre
Apollo Theatre

The Apollo Theatre is a listed building West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. Designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield, and the fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street, its doors opened on 21 February 1901 with the United States musical comedy The Belle of Bohemia....
, Hollywood Bowl
Hollywood Bowl

The Hollywood Bowl is a famous modern amphitheatre in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, USA, that is used primarily for music performances....
, Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue , occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street , two blocks south of Central Park....
, Montreux Jazz Festival
Montreux Jazz Festival

The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best-known music festival in Switzerland, It is held annually in early July in Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva....
, Russian River Jazz Festival (Northern California), and other venues around the world.

Bobbi has also been sampled by several hip-hop artists. Her Blacks and Blues was sampled by KMD
KMD

KMD was a Hip hop music trio in the early 1990s, best known for launching the career of acclaimed rapping and hip hop production Daniel Dumile, who at the time was known as Zev Love X....
 in the song Plumskinz, Fat Joe
Fat Joe

Joseph Cartagena , better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an United States rapper. He is of Puerto Rican people and Cuban people descent and is signed to Imperial Records....
 in the song Another Wild Nigga from the Bronx, and Eric B. and Rakim's Keep the Beat. Ghostface Killah sampled her song "“Just a Love Child”" in his song "Underwater" produced by MF Doom.

Discography

YearTitleGenreLabel
1971Flute InJazzBlue Note
1972Dig ThisJazzBlue Note
1973Blacks and BluesJazzBlue Note
1974Satin DollJazzBlue Note
1975Fancy DancerJazzBlue Note
1977Tailor MadeJazzEpic
1978FreestyleJazzEpic
1979The Good LifeJazzEpic
1989City BeatJazzMalaco
1990Let's Get StartedJazzWarner Bros
1992The Best of Bobbi HumphreyJazzBlue Note
1994Passion FluteJazzParadise Sounds
1998Blue Break BeatsJazzBlue Note
1999Passion Flute [Reissue]JazzParadise Sounds
2002Satin Doll [Reissue]JazzBlue Note


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