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Wild Flower (Hubert Laws album)

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Released
  
1972

Wild Flower(1972)
  
Morning Star(1972)

Release date
  
1972

Label
  
Atlantic Records

Length
  
30:59

Artist
  
Hubert Laws

Producer
  
Joel Dorn

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
October 22, 1971, November 23, 1971, and January 27, 1972

Similar
  
Laws' Cause, Carnegie Hall, The San Francisco Concert, Morning Star, Crying Song

Wild Flower is an album by the flautist Hubert Laws released on the Atlantic label in 1972.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 4½ stars calling it "A nice date from an earlier Laws period with a harder tone and more traditional jazz direction".

Track listing

  1. "Wild Flower" (John Murtaugh) - 3:14
  2. "Pensativa" (Clare Fischer) - 4:05
  3. "Equinox" (John Coltrane) - 6:26
  4. "Ashanti" (Murtaugh) - 5:31
  5. "Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 5:36
  6. "Yoruba" (Murtaugh) - 6:07
  • Recorded in New York City on October 22, 1971 (tracks 2 & 3), November 23, 1971 (tracks 1, 4 & 5) and January 27, 1972 (track 6)

    • Personnel

  • Hubert Laws - flute, alto flute, piccolo, electric flute
  • Gary Burton - vibraphone
  • Chick Corea - piano
  • Ron Carter, Richard Davis - double bass
  • Bernard Purdie - drums
  • Ramon "Mongo" Santamaría - congas
  • Joe Chambers, Airto Moreira, Warren Smith - percussion
  • Bernard Eichen, Paul Gershman, Harry Lookofsky, Guy Lumia, David Nadien, Gene Orloff, John Pintavalle, Matthew Raimondi, Aaron Rosand - violin
  • Julian Barber, Selwart Clarke, Harold Coletta, Richard Dickler, Harry Zaratzian - viola
  • Seymour Barab, Richard Bock, Charles McCracken, George Ricci, Alan Shulman - cello
  • John Murtaugh - arranger, conductor

    • Songs

    1Wildflower3:12
    2Pensativa4:03
    3Equinox6:23

    References

    Wild Flower (Hubert Laws album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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