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Carnegie Hall (Hubert Laws album)

album by Hubert Laws

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ5043900 ↗
Source-derived summary

Carnegie Hall is a live album by flautist Hubert Laws recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1973 and released on the CTI label.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "This interesting live set features flutist Hubert Laws at the height of his powers and fame".

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Carnegie Hall (Hubert Laws album)” is album by Hubert Laws. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Carnegie, Hall and Hubert, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973. For this dossier, Carnegie, Hall and Hubert is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Hubert Laws” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5043900. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1973.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Carnegie Hall (Hubert Laws album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.