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.

André 3000’s new flute album is for real. ... In OutKast, he helped create some of the most sumptuously brilliant music we’ll hear in our lifetimes — rap, pop or otherwise.

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. Andre 3000's Flute Album Proves the Woodwind Is King in Hip-Hop ...

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.