| Afro-Classic | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Hubert Laws |
| Cover: | Afro-Classic.jpg |
| Released: | 1970 |
| Recorded: | December 1 & 11, 1970 |
| Studio: | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ |
| Genre: | Jazz, third stream |
| Length: | 37:29 |
| Label: | CTI |
| Producer: | Creed Taylor |
| Prev Title: | Crying Song |
| Prev Year: | 1969 |
| Next Title: | The Rite of Spring |
| Next Year: | 1971 |
Afro-Classic is an album by flautist Hubert Laws released on the CTI label featuring performances of popular and classical music by Laws recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in 1970.[1]
The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 5 stars stating "Afro-Classic is a classic for the manner in which Laws, with brilliant assistance from arranger Don Sebesky, melded the jazz and classical worlds — not to mention pop — into a seamless whole," aptly describing "[t]he liberties taken with the Passacaglia" as "revolutionary" rendering the "stunning" number "no longer simply a classical tune" but one which "begins to swing with Latin, blues, and jazz undertones. When Laws finally takes his solo, the tune simply grooves its way through to the end — with subtle sound effects that Brian Eno would be envious of because he hadn't thought of them yet."[2]