Happy Birthday Down Beats’ # 1 Flutist Hubert Laws
Hubert Laws
🍾Hubert Laws was born on November 10, 1939, in Houston, Texas. The flutist and saxophonist, who refuses to be categorized, is enjoying a career spanning over 40 years playing jazz, pop, classical music and R&B. He is one of the few classical musicians, mastering the art of jazz. He has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, and Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Cleveland, Amsterdam, and Japan orchestras. This NEA Jazz Master was a member of the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera Orchestras.
The second, of eight children, in a musical family, Hubert grew up playing rhythm and blues and gospel at neighborhood dances. Brother Ronnie and sisters, Eloise and Debra, have debut in the music industry.
Hubert has collaborated with Quincy Jones; Bob James; Claude Bolling for Neil Simon’s comedy California Suite; Earl Klugh and Pat Williams on How to Beat the High Cost of Living; film scores for The Wiz, Color Purple, A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich (the screenplay by Alice Childress, staring Cicely Tyson), and Spot Marks the X.
Laws maintains his own publishing companies, Hulaws Music and Golden Flute Music, and he founded Spirit Productions in 1976 to produce his own albums and those of promising new artists. Hubert was selected the #1 Flutist for 24 Years: Down Beat readers’ polls ten years in a row and was the critic’s choice seven consecutive years. Laws the classical hipster keeps swinging catch him when you can. Photo: Catalin Neacsu Seattle, WA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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