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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SIMON: August Brown says that while the flute may surprise some of Andre 3000's fans, it's become almost a fixture in popular music. BROWN: Starting in the '60s, there was a big interest in kind of ...