Hubert Laws

Hubert Laws

Infobox musical artist



Name = Hubert Laws
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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
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Born = birth date and age|1939|11|10
Origin = Houston, Texas, U.S.
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Instrument = Flute
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Genre = Jazz, Classical
Occupation = Flautist
Years_active = 1964 – Present
Label = RKO/Unique, Sony, Music Masters Jazz, CTI, Columbia
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URL = [http://www.hubertlaws.com www.HubertLaws.com]

Hubert Laws (b. November 10, 1939)cite web
url=http://www.ancestry.com
title= Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997 [database on-line]
publisher= The Generations Network
location= United States
accessdate=2008-07-20
] is an American flutist with a 30-year career in jazz, classical, and other music genres. Laws is an extremely gifted musician, and is one of the few classical artists who has also mastered jazz, pop, and rhythm-and-blues genres; moving effortlessly from one repertory to another. [ [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=8624 All About Jazz: Hubert Laws] ]

Biography

Hubert Laws, Jr. was born November 10, 1939, in the Studewood section of Houston, Texas, the second of eight children to Hubert Laws, Sr. and Miola Luverta Donahue. Many of his siblings also entered the music industry, including saxophonist Ronnie Laws and vocalists Eloise, Debra, and Johnnie Laws. He began playing flute in high school after volunteering to substitute for the school orchestra's regular flutist. He became adept at jazz improvisation by playing in the Houston-area jazz group the Swingsters, which eventually evolved into the Modern Jazz Sextet, the Night Hawks, and the Crusaders. At age 15, was a member of the early Jazz Crusaders while in Texas (1954-1960), and he also played classical music during those years.

Juilliard and classical music

Winning a scholarship to New York's Juilliard School of Music in 1960. He studied music both in the classroom and with master flutist Julius Baker and played with both the New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (member) and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, 1969-72. In this period his renditions of classical compositions by Gabriel Faure, Stravinsky, Debussy, and Bach on the 1971 CTI recording "Rite of Spring"—with a string section and such jazz stalwarts as Airto Moreira, Jack DeJohnette, Bob James, and Ron Carter—earned him an audience of classical music aficionados. He would return to this genre in 1976 with a recording of Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet".

Jazz

While at Juillard Laws played flute during the evenings with several acts, including Mongo Santamaria, 1963-67 and in 1964 began recording as a bandleader for the Atlantic label, and he released the albums "The Laws of Jazz", "Flute By-Laws", and "Laws Cause". He guested on albums by Ashford and Simpson, Chet Baker, and George Benson. He also recorded with younger brother Ronnie Laws album "The Laws" in the early Seventies, a treasure for Jazz Aficcionados. He also played flute on Gil Scott-Heron's 1972 album "Free Will", which featured the jazz poem "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." During the mid-1980s he went into semi-retirement for seven years.

In the 1990s Laws resumed his career, playing on the 1991 "Spirituals in Concert" recording by opera singers Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman. His albums on the Music Masters label—"My Time Will Come" in 1990 and, more particularly, "Storm Then Calm" in 1994—are regarded by critics as a return to the form he exhibited on his early 1970s albums. He also recorded a tribute album to jazz pianist and pop-music vocalist Nat King Cole, "Hubert Laws Remembers the Unforgettable Nat King Cole", which received critical accolades. Among the many artists he has played and recorded with are Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Nancy Wilson, Quincy Jones, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Lena Horne, Leonard Bernstein, James Moody, Jaco Pastorius, Sergio Mendes,Bob James, Carly Simon, George Benson, Clark Terry, Stevie Wonder, J. J. Johnson, and The Rascals. [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0iftxqt5ldte~T4 All Music article] ]

The 2006 video "Hubert Laws Live 30-year Video Retrospective", available only at hubertlaws.com, includes "Red Hot & Cool" with Nancy Wilson, Performance in Brazil, Johnny Carson Show Appearance, The 1975 Downbeat Reader's Poll Awards, Performance in Japan, and Performance in Germany.

Grammy Awards history

*Career Wins:
*Career Nominations: 3 [ [http://theenvelope.latimes.com/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-search,0,7169155.htmlstory?searchtype=all&query=Hubert+Laws&x=16&y=12 Grammy Awards Database for Hubert Laws] ]

elective discography

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.hubertlaws.com Hubert Laws official website]
* [http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-musicians/laws-hubert-biography Hubert Laws]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0iftxqt5ldte~T00 All Music Guide]


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