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Luther Hughes

Bassist Luther Hughes has played bass with some of the biggest names in jazz in a career spanning over 40 years. He has performed or recorded with jazz legends such as Gene Harris, Mundell Lowe, Joe Henderson, Carmen MacRae, Willie Bobo, Horace Silver, Harold Land, Don Ellis, Joe Pass, Louis Bellson, Hampton Hawes, Ronnell Bright, Herb Geller, Mal Waldron, Diana Krall, Michael Feinstein and many more.

Luther received his training at the University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music and Long Beach City College, earning his bachelor's degree from Cal State Long Beach. His teachers included Alex Cirin, Thomas Martin, Nat Gangursky, Eileen Strang and Sue Raney.

Luther is involved in the music business in a number of ways:

As a Band Leader, he currently leads The Cannonball-Coltrane Project, as well as Luther Hughes and Friends: Remembering The Nat King Cole Trio and H.E.R.K. (Hughes, Eschete, Ranier, Kreibich).

As a record producer and music publisher, Luther heads up Primrose Lane Music, which he founded in 2004.

As an educator, Luther currently teaches at Cal State University in Fullerton Ca. and Saddleback College in Mission Viejo Ca. He has taught at Cal State University Long Beach Ca. , Goldenwest College in Huntington Beach Ca. , the Musicians Institute in Hollywood Ca., Rio Hondo College in Whittier Ca. and formerly served as the Southern California Regional Director for Bruce Forman's JazzMasters Workshop.

Having recorded and performed on stage, and for film and television scores, Luther has appeared as a band member on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Boston Legal.

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Album Review

Luther Hughes / Cannonball-Coltrane Project: Things Are Getting Better

Read "Things Are Getting Better" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


Match the stylings of two of the most revered jazz saxophonists, and you're likely to come up with The Cannonball-Coltrane Project. This five-piece ensemble pays homage to Julian “Cannonball" Adderley and John Coltrane. Bassist Luther Hughes says the idea came to him as he was listening to The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago (Mercury, 1959), the only time Adderley and Coltrane recorded an album together, when they weren't backing up Miles Davis. To make it work, Hughes brought ...

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Luther Hughes: Luther Hughes and the Cannonball-Coltrane Project

Read "Luther Hughes and the Cannonball-Coltrane Project" reviewed by Jim Santella


Featuring alto saxophonist Bruce Babad and tenor saxophonist Glenn Cashman, The Cannonball-Coltrane Project remembers Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane with warm feelings. Initially formed as an homage to the landmark 1959 Adderley-Coltrane album The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago, the group continues to pay tribute to its elders through exceptional interpretations of straight-ahead jazz. Bassist Luther Hughes leads with the strength of Charles Mingus on this program of originals and familiar chestnuts.

Cashman starts his “Trane Remembered" with ...

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Recording

"Things Are Getting Better", New CD by Luther Hughes & the Cannonball-Coltrane Project

"Things Are Getting Better", New CD by Luther Hughes & the Cannonball-Coltrane Project

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations

"It all started as I was sitting around one day listening to The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago, a landmark album recorded in 1959. This album was the only time Cannonball and Coltrane appeared together on record other than their work with Miles Davis. As I was listening to this album I thought it might be fun to re-create and perform the original arrangements. While I was mulling over this idea, two dear friends came to mind—Glenn Cashman and Bruce ...

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Event

The Vault Vip Lounge Welcomes Luther Hughes and the Cannonball Coltrane Project on Friday, July 20

The Vault Vip Lounge Welcomes Luther Hughes and the Cannonball Coltrane Project on Friday, July 20

Source: All About Jazz

The Vault VIP Lounge, located inside the OC Pavilion, is pleased to welcome Luther Hughes and The Cannonball Coltrane Project on Friday, June 20, 2007 at 8 PM. Once a basement vault for a large bank, the Vault VIP Lounge has been transformed into an intimate jazz nightclub with hightop tables, leather sofas, and romantic lighting.

Luther Hughes, bassist and band leader, organized The Cannonball Coltrane Project as a tribute to the music of jazz legends John Coltrane and Cannonball ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Things Are Getting...

Primrose Lane
2011

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Luther Hughes &...

Contemporary Records
1987

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