Split not your reed o'er that analogy, CC, there is no such animal as a "bar room jazz flutist." Every respectable bar has a "Tenor Saxophone Players Only" sign posted.
Besides, Hubert Laws totally exorcized any stereotypes about jazz FLAUTISTS decades ago. Take it on the down low, me having a BA on the whistle. (Got tired of lugging the contrabass, and the flute majors were quite attractive.) But I did marry the singer forty years ago.