🎷 AotW: CTI Hubert Laws: Afro-Classic (CTI Records CTI 6006 / CTI 8019)

Hubert Laws: Afro-Classic

CTI Records CTI 6006
Released 1971

Reissued as CTI 8019 in 1982

• A1: Fire And Rain /7:55
• A2: Allegro From Concerto #3 In D /3:40
• A3: Theme From Love Story /7:25
• B1: Passacaglia In C Minor /15:10
• B2: Flute Sonata In F /3:15

Arranged By – Don Sebesky
Bass – Ron Carter
Bassoon – Fred Alston, Jr.
Drums – Fred Waits
Electric Piano – Bob James
Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
Flute – Hubert Laws
Guitar – Gene Bertoncini
Lacquer Cut By – RVG
Percussion – Airto, Richie "Pablo" Landrum
Producer – Creed Taylor
Vibraphone – David Friedman

Recorded December, 1970 at Van Gelder Studios


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[Rudy]

This record is...interesting. Afro-"Classic" refers to three of the five tracks on the album being based on classical works. (And one is the wretched "Theme from Love Story"...one bit of 70s schmaltz I can do without in my life.) As such, it is a low-key album for the most part. The songs were a good fit for the classically-trained Laws.

 

[JOv2]

The songs were a good fit for the classically-trained Laws.

...That might be why I've not been able to appreciate his CTIs. While the '60s stuff (the 3 Atlantics) are largely a good spin, the CTIs I've heard have a very different vibe. I appreciate the variety for sure, but I never could warm to those I've heard to date and given the post-1969 vintage, I never bothered to follow-up. He's definitely broadening the landscape for the improvisational artist (not unlike say Keith Jarrett) beyond what was considered "jazz" at the time; so, credit is surely due there. Am glad these are out there, but they just don't float my boat. (I was gonna write they don't blow my flute -- you know to be clever in a musical sense -- but quickly decided the phrase seemed unintentionally awkward! )

 

[Rudy]

That is what I find odd myself. He appears on seemingly every CTI record ever made and does an exemplary job of it. But his own albums? They never quite do it for me. Could be that he and/or Creed Taylor thought he'd done enough of that stye that they would try something different for his own albums.