What a hairy piece that was! Hubert Laws showing some incredible classical technique here, just memorizing this would be incredibly difficult and he didn't flub one note!!! Impressive.
ahh my hero hubert born in 1939 so he was young and deadly here and he looks so youthful it is now 2018 he still looks great of course still deadly and such a nice cat I loved his description of strayhorns tune lush life before playing it on alto flute few months age great commentary
Yes, he does!!! I was honored to hear him in concert at the Paramount in Oakland in the late '70's. Before that, sat in on a master class with Rampal in SF. Two huge musical heroes of our age.
I had a great appreciation for Dave Valentine & always read he was a student of Hubert Laws....it took me years to discover Mr. Laws - totally phenomenal!
We had no idea what this great music was when, as kids, we listened to it when watching shows like the Electric Company and Sesame Street. I wish my kid could grow up as I did in the 60's and the 70's. He won't have these type of significant memories.
Many thanks for uploading this. The movement they are playing in this clip is the 4th movement from the Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio - Fugace. I have never heard Laws play this so many thanks for this.
Wow! I've loved Bolling's "Suite For Flute And Jazz Piano" since I first heard it, a long time ago and then you add the incredible flautist Hubert Laws, what could be better?
For once, I have to agree with Eggy Noggy, no missteps here. I played several of the pieces from this album back at my college "juries" in the mid-70s. This rendition isn't that much faster than the original. The problem - if you can even call it that - was that the original used Rampal, who didn't know how to improvise. Here, they lock Hubert Laws, a great improvisor, into playing pretty much exactly what Rampal played rather than letting him loose. btw, Carson was a pretty good drummer, as I recall...
Lol @ Carson's "Calgary, British Columbia". To many Americans, America = The World = America. On that show, Jay did "Jay Walking" and asked a girl who the president of Canada was. "I don't think they have a president. They only have a mayor", she said.
I played this whole suite for my college senior recital with faculty as the rest of the group! It was an incredible moment! ‘79 !! I agree it would have been special to let Laws put his improv talent loose.
so you thought they were going to duplicate the recording verbatim on this TV show? lol Bolling wrote it and didn't play it identical to his recording, so he made a couple of "mis-steps?" And the Beatles made a couple of "mis-steps" on Ed Sullivan when they didn't play identical to their recordings, right? lol GOH.
