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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One of the most revered rappers in the history of hip-hop descended on Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier as part of the 44th Montreal International Jazz Festival Sunday evening, and performed an hour-plus set ...

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.