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.

The flute is one of the more overlooked instruments in jazz, but it’s been making an impact on improvised music for more than 50 years. Let 10 experts take you on a guided tour.

The Flute Center of New York, which sells over 3,000 flutes a year, is New York's primary music center whose frequent visitors include Sir James Galway.

A team of students from Cornell University’s Designing with Microcontrollers class developed a solution for this problem by transcribing sounds from a flute into sheet music.

Andre 3000's new instrumental album 'New Blue Sun' shows how popular the flute has become in hip-hop, after decades of use in rock.

At the time, it was considered a fitting punishment for crimes against music. But the Shame Flute – which is probably, if we’re being picky, closer in appearance to today’s clarinet – wasn’t just used ...

The Midcoast High Winds Flute Choir will perform a program of classical and popular music selections as part of the Oasis of Music Concert series beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 10, at ...

This is the hilarious moment a cat keeps pulling away a sheet music stand while its owner tries to play her flute in Malden, Massachusetts on June 4.

During his residency of the famed Blue Note jazz club in New York, the OutKast-rapper-turned-flutist showed us why New Blue Sun is both less and more than that question.

Lizzo Plays a ‘Sesame Street’ Flute Made Out of Cookies for Elmo … Before You Know Who Eats It "I've played a lot of instruments, but I've never played a cookie before!" the pop star laughs.

Lizzo's performance with late Pres. James Madison's crystal flute drew the ire of conservative commentator Candace Owens.