Album guide
Afro-Classic
- Released
- 1970
- Label
- CTI
- Forces
- Flute, Piano, Guitar, Vibraphone
- Personnel
- Hubert Laws, Bob James, Ron Carter and others
Laws had studied at Juilliard and played with both the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera orchestras before making Afro-Classic.
Arranger Don Sebesky used that double life to push the jazz flute into new territory, most strikingly in a 15-minute Bach Passacaglia where Ron Carter switches to electric cello and Laws to electric flute.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Fire and RainNon-classical source
- Allegro from Concerto No. 3 in DJ.S. Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D major, BWV 1054: I. Allegro
- Theme from Love StoryNon-classical source
- Passacaglia In C MinorJ.S. Bach: Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582
- Flute Sonata In FMozart: Sonata for keyboard and flute in F major, K. 13: I. Allegro