Bobbi humphrey biography

Flutist

Established New York Music Career

Honed Business Reputation

Continued Success as Recording Artist

Selected discography

Sources

Bobbi Humphrey had been in New York for only three days when she jammed with Duke Ellington.

She had been in the city for only two weeks when she landed her first major recording contract with Blue Note Records. Since then her musical career has continued to flourish, and today she is one of the only successful female urban-pop flutists.

Barbara Ann Humphrey was born on April 25, 1950 in Marlin, TX and moved with her family to Dallas when she was two years old.

The cousin of the former Duke Ellington trumpeter Eddie Preston, Humphrey graduated from Lincoln High School in Dallas in 1968 and began her college studies on a scholarship at Texas Southern University in the fall of that year. Homesick, she returned to Dallas and continued her education at Southern Methodist University, although she never received her undergr