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Hubert Laws

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Hubert Laws (born November 10, 1939) is an American flutist and saxophonist with a career spanning over 40 years in jazz, classical, and other music genres. [1]

81 relations: Afro-Classic, Airto Moreira, Aretha Franklin, Ashford & Simpson, Bob James (musician), Carly Simon, Carnegie Hall (Hubert Laws album), Chet Baker, Clark Terry, Classical music, Columbia Records, Crying Song (album), CTI Records, Debra Laws, Ella Fitzgerald, Eloise Laws, Eric Dolphy, Flute, Flute By-Laws, George Benson, George Gershwin, Gil Scott-Heron, Grammy Award, Herbie Hancock, Herbie Mann, HIV/AIDS, Houston, In the Beginning (Hubert Laws album), J. J. Johnson, Jack DeJohnette, Jaco Pastorius, James Moody (saxophonist), Jazz, Jessye Norman, Juilliard School, Julius Baker, Kathleen Battle, Laws' Cause, Lena Horne, Leonard Bernstein, McCoy Tyner, Metropolitan Opera, Mongo Santamaría, Moondog, Morcheeba, Morning Star (Hubert Laws album), Musician, MusicMasters Records, Nancy Wilson (jazz singer), Nat King Cole, ..., National Endowment for the Arts, National Flute Association, NEA Jazz Masters, New York Jazz Quartet, New York Philharmonic, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Pieces of a Man, Pop music, Quincy Jones, Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove, Red Hot Organization, Rhythm and blues, RKO/Unique Records, Romeo & Juliet (Hubert Laws album), Ron Carter, Ronnie Laws, Sarah Vaughan, Saxophone, Sérgio Mendes, Sony Music, Stevie Wonder, Tenor saxophone, The Chicago Theme, The Crusaders, The Laws of Jazz, The Rascals, The Rite of Spring (Hubert Laws album), The San Francisco Concert, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Wild Flower (Hubert Laws album). Expand index (31 more) »

Afro-Classic

Afro-Classic is an album by flautist Hubert Laws released on the CTI label featuring performances of popular and classical music by Laws recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in 1970.

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Airto Moreira

Airto Moreira (born August 5, 1941) is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Ashford & Simpson

Ashford & Simpson were a husband-and-wife songwriting-production team and recording duo of Nickolas Ashford (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011) and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946).

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Bob James (musician)

Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer.

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Carly Simon

Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and children's author.

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Carnegie Hall (Hubert Laws album)

Carnegie Hall is a live album by flautist Hubert Laws recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1973 and released on the CTI label.

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Chet Baker

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist.

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Clark Terry

Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, composer, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Crying Song (album)

Crying Song is an album by jazz flautist Hubert Laws released on the CTI label featuring performances of popular music (including songs by The Beatles and Pink Floyd) by Laws recorded in Memphis with Elvis Presley's rhythm section and at Rudy Van Gelder's studio.

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CTI Records

CTI Records (Creed Taylor Incorporated) is a jazz record label founded in 1967 by producer/A&R manager Creed Taylor.

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Debra Laws

Debra Renee Laws (born September 10, 1956) is an American singer and actress from Houston, Texas.

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella.

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Eloise Laws

Eloise Laws (born November 6, 1943) is a singer and a member of the prominent Laws family of musicians from Houston, Texas.

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Eric Dolphy

Eric Allan Dolphy, Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Flute By-Laws

Flute By-Laws is the second album by jazz flautist Hubert Laws, released in 1966 on Atlantic Records.

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George Benson

George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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George Gershwin

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.

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Gil Scott-Heron

Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American soul and jazz poet,Kot, Greg (May 26, 2011).

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.

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Herbie Mann

Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music.

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HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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In the Beginning (Hubert Laws album)

In the Beginning is a double album by flautist Hubert Laws released on the CTI and recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in 1974.

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J. J. Johnson

James Louis "J.

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Jack DeJohnette

Jack DeJohnette (born August 9, 1942) is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer.

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Jaco Pastorius

John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III (December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987) was an American jazz bassist who was a member of Weather Report from 1976 to 1981.

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James Moody (saxophonist)

James Moody (March 26, 1925 – December 9, 2010) was an American jazz saxophone and flute player and very occasional vocalist, playing predominantly in the bebop and hard bop styles.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jessye Norman

Jessye Mae Norman (born September 15, 1945) is an American opera singer and recitalist.

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Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, informally referred to as Juilliard and located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is a performing arts conservatory established in 1905.

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Julius Baker

Julius Baker (September 23, 1915 – August 6, 2003) was one of the foremost American orchestral flute players.

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Kathleen Battle

Kathleen Deanna Battle (born August 13, 1948) is an American operatic soprano known for her distinctive vocal range and tone.

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Laws' Cause

Laws' Cause is the third album by jazz flautist Hubert Laws released on the Atlantic label in 1969.

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Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an African American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

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McCoy Tyner

Alfred McCoy Tyner (born December 11, 1938) is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Mongo Santamaría

Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez (April 7, 1917 – February 1, 2003) was a rumba quinto master and an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist.

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Moondog

Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), also known as Moondog, was an American musician, composer, theoretician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments.

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Morcheeba

Morcheeba are an English electronic band formed in the mid-1990s with founding members vocalist Skye Edwards and the brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey.

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Morning Star (Hubert Laws album)

Morning Star is an album by flautist Hubert Laws released on the CTI and recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in 1972.

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Musician

A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.

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MusicMasters Records

MusicMasters was a record label based in Ocean, New Jersey.

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Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)

Nancy Wilson (born February 20, 1937) is an American singer with more than seventy albums, and three Grammy Awards.

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Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American jazz pianist and vocalist.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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National Flute Association

The National Flute Association (NFA) is the largest flute organization in the world, with roughly 5,000 members from more than 50 countries.

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NEA Jazz Masters

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), every year honors up to seven jazz musicians with Jazz Master Awards.

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New York Jazz Quartet

The New York Jazz Quartet was founded by pianist Roland Hanna.

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New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic, officially the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc., globally known as New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO) or New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

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Pieces of a Man

Pieces of a Man is the debut studio album of American recording artist Gil Scott-Heron, released in 1971 in stereo format on Flying Dutchman Records in the United States.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.

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Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove

Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove is a compilation album produced by Paul Heck of the Red Hot Organization (RHO) to celebrate the birthday of George Gershwin.

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Red Hot Organization

Red Hot Organization (RHO) is a not-for-profit, 501(c) 3, international organization dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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RKO/Unique Records

RKO Records and Unique Jazz are two record labels.

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Romeo & Juliet (Hubert Laws album)

Romeo and Juliet is a 1977 jazz album by flutist Hubert Laws, being his first release for Columbia Records after leaving CTI Records.

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Ron Carter

Ronald Levin "Ron" Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double bassist.

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Ronnie Laws

Ronald Wayne Laws (born October 3, 1950) is an American jazz, jazz fusion, smooth jazz saxophonist.

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Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Sérgio Mendes

Sérgio Santos Mendes (born February 11, 1941) is a Brazilian musician.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Tenor saxophone

The Tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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The Chicago Theme

The Chicago Theme is an album by flautist Hubert Laws recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Studio in New Jersey in 1974 and released in 1975 on the CTI label.

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The Crusaders

The Crusaders was an American jazz fusion group that was popular in the 1970s. The group was known as the Jazz Crusaders before shortening its name in 1971.

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The Laws of Jazz

The Laws of Jazz is the debut album by jazz flautist Hubert Laws released on the Atlantic label in 1964.

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The Rascals

The Rascals (initially known as The Young Rascals) were an American rock band, formed in Garfield, New Jersey in 1965.

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The Rite of Spring (Hubert Laws album)

The Rite of Spring is an album by flautist Hubert Laws released on the CTI label featuring jazz interpretations of classical music compositions.

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The San Francisco Concert

The San Francisco Concert is a live album by flautist Hubert Laws recorded at the Paramount Theatre in California in 1975 and released in 1977 on the CTI label.

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is an American talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the Tonight Show franchise from October 1, 1962 through May 22, 1992.

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Wild Flower (Hubert Laws album)

Wild Flower is an album by the flautist Hubert Laws released on the Atlantic label in 1972.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Laws

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