Passage: Herbie Mann, 73

Jazz flutist Herbie Mann, who helped usher in the Bossa Nova craze of the 1960s, has died. Mann made his mark in the late 1950s when he added a conga player to his band. He's been credited with pioneering the use of Brazilian and African sounds into mainstream jazz and became an international success with records like "Herbie Mann at the Village Gate," "Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie Mann" and "Herbie Mann/Joao Gilberto/Antonio Carlos Jobim." "He had a love of beauty, of rhythm and melodies," said his wife, Susan Janeal Arison. "He was somebody whose music flowed from his heart, and he marched to the beat of his own drum."