Biography of Hubert Laws (*1939)

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10.11.1939

Born in Houston, his mother was playing the piano in church

Learns to ply piano himself, later Mellophone (special kind of horn) and alto sax.

Starts to play flute in special parts for the school band

Classical flute lessons in Houston with Clement Barone

Founding of Modern Jazz Sextet (or The Jazz Crusaders)

Scholarship for the Juilliard School of Music

Flutist of the Orchestra U. S. A.

Flute studies with Julius Baker

Actually tries to establish flute in Jazz

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CDs with/from Hubert Laws

Marty Banks, Garnett Brown, Sam Brown, Chick Corea, Richard Davis, Bill Fitch, Carmelo Garcia, Rodgers Grant, Hubert Laws, Israel "Cahao" Lopez, Ray Lucas, Tom McIntosh, Raymond Orchart, Jimmy Owens, Victor Pantoja, Benny Powell, Bobby Thomas, Chris White

Hubert Laws - The Laws of Jazz (1994)

Atlantic Recording Corp.

1. Miss thing (03:47:00)
2. All Soul (03:39:00)
3. Black Eyed Peas and Rice (03:25:00)
4. Bessie´s Blues (06:12:00)
5. And don´t you forget it (02:59:00)
6. Bimbe Blue (07:51:00)
7. Capers (00:00:05)
8. Bloodshot (04:40:00)
9. Miedo (05:10:00)
10. Mea Lene (05:15:00)
11. No you´d better not (00:00:03)
12. Let her go (03:25:00)
13. Strange Girl (08:20:00)
14. Baila Cinderella (04:26:00)

Literature von/über Hubert Laws

• Adorján, András:  Lexikon der Flöte
  Flöteninstrumente und ihre Baugeschichte - Spielpraxis - Komponisten und ihre Werke - Interpreten
  1. edition Laaber: Laaber-Verlag,
  2009. - ISBN: 978-3-89007-545-7
• Westbrook, Peter:  The Flute in Jazz
  Window on World Music
  2. edition Harmonia Books,
  2011. - ISBN: 978-0-615-31087-9