This week, Andre 3000 released an instrumental album featuring the flute instead of an expected rap album. Scott Simon asks LA Times' August Brown about the flute's decades-long role in pop music.

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On Tuesday, Sept. 28, Lizzo surprised fans at her Washington, D.C. concert when she played a 200-year-old crystal flute. The historic instrument was gifted to President James Madison by Claude Laurent ...

The senior flautist, who has done his research in the structural evolution of the instrument, talks about the spiritual, ...

Maiara Moraes is a flutist, composer and teacher from the south of Brazil, based in São Paulo since 2012. With refined technique on her instrument, she moves through different forms of popular music, ...

There’s a pipsqueak of a flute, just a foot long and barely thicker inside than a reed of grass. There are flutes twisted into triangles and other geometric shapes to fit the performers’ mouths. And ...

Andre 3000 released new music for the first time in 17 years this week. But "New Blue Sun" is not what most fans may have expected. The record has no rap music. What it does have is the flute.