hey everyone!! I have a project in jazz band( at school so it counts towards my grade) where we have to talk about our favorite jazz idol and play a solo from them, but I don't even know what jazz flute idol is!! Can you please give me ideas on who I shall do.

I'm not sure of any off of the top of my head either but you should google it, youtube it, search it or something. I would just go to youtube and type in "jazz flute". You'll probably get something I'm sure. I actually just found one guy. I'm not sure if he's any good but his name is "Fernando Gelbard". If he's not any good, I'm sure there are others out there. :D

Here's a list of some well known jazz flutists:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flautist#Notable_jazz_flute_players

Check out their music and see which ones you like...

It could also be any other instrument that you transpose to flute as well.

Nestor Torres?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Torres

You might try the Sax on the Web forum, there are two recent topics that will help answer your questions, and quite thoroughly:

Laitn Jazz flutists:
http://www.saxontheweb.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=110176

And Straight-Ahead Jazz Flutists:
http://www.saxontheweb.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=108197


And there's a fantastic Jazz flutist that keeps a strong internet presence. I'm going to intentionally mis-spell his name here, because the webpage editor will blank it out: Robert Duck. You will have to replace the U with an I to spell his name properly. If I write Robert Dick, it gets censored, as you can see. But definitely do an internet search on him, I do think he has published compositions.
Try here:
http://www.larrykrantz.com/rdick.htm

And a You-Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVP5ffxX5Kg

Good luck with your project.

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Looks like the censor feature has been modified. It would have read, Robert D**k not long ago, and I wanted to make sure you could actually do an internet search :)