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CTI: The Brilliance of Hubert Laws

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Marc Myers
Apr 23, 2025
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If you asked me to name one artist whose albums for Creed Taylor's CTI label hold up best today, I'd have to say Hubert Laws. Laws is jazz's finest flutist and is still with us, yet you barely hear or read much about him, sadly. In fact, if I had to sell off all of my CTI records, I'd keep Laws's nine leadership LPs and his many sideman records. [Photo …

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