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| years_active = 1955–2012 |
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| label = [[Prestige Records|Prestige]], [[Fontana Records|Fontana]], [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]], [[Freedom Records|Freedom]], [[Futura Records|Futura]], [[Marge Records|Marge]], [[Trident Records|Trident]], [[Whynot Records|Whynot]], [[Inner City Records|Inner City]], [[Chiaroscuro Records|Chiaroscuro]] |
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'''Theodore Curson''' (June 3, 1935 – November 4, 2012) was an American [[jazz]] trumpeter.<ref name=wynn>{{cite book|last=Wynn|first=Ron| |
'''Theodore Curson''' (June 3, 1935 – November 4, 2012) was an American [[jazz]] trumpeter.<ref name="wynn">{{cite book|last=Wynn|first=Ron|author-link=Ron Wynn|editor=Ron Wynn|others=M. Erlewine, V. Bogdanov|title=[[All Music Guide to Jazz]]|series=[[Allmusic]]|year=1994|publisher=Miller Freeman Books|location=San Francisco|isbn=0-87930-308-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/allmusicguidetoj00wynn/page/183 183]}}</ref><ref name="Gustaffson">{{Cite news | first=Sari | last=Gustafsson | title=Pori Jazzin legenda Ted Curson kuoli | url=http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/Pori+Jazzin+legenda+Ted+Curson+kuoli/a1305612462721 | newspaper=[[Helsingin Sanomat]] | publisher=Lehtikuva | language=fi | date=2012-11-04}}</ref> |
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==Life and career== |
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Curson was born in [[Philadelphia]].<ref name=wynn /> He became interested in playing trumpet after watching a newspaper salesman play a silver trumpet.<ref name=allen>{{cite web | url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=17756 | title=Ted Curson: Atypical Ted | |
Curson was born in [[Philadelphia]].<ref name="wynn" /> He became interested in playing trumpet after watching a newspaper salesman play a silver trumpet.<ref name="allen">{{cite web | url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=17756 | title=Ted Curson: Atypical Ted | access-date=2007-08-02 | last=Allen | first=Clifford | date=2005-06-02| work=Allaboutjazz.com | publisher=All About Jazz}}</ref> Curson's father, however, wanted him to play [[alto saxophone]] like [[Louis Jordan]].<ref name="allen" /> When he was ten, he gained his first trumpet.<ref name="allen" /> |
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He attended [[Granoff School of Music]] in Philadelphia.<ref name=amgbio>{{ |
He attended [[Granoff School of Music]] in Philadelphia.<ref name="amgbio">{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p6356|label=Biography}} (web version)</ref> At the suggestion of [[Miles Davis]], he moved to New York in 1956.<ref name="wynn" /> He performed and recorded with [[Cecil Taylor]] in the late 1950s and early 1960s.<ref name="wynn" /><ref name="cook">{{cite book|last=Cook|first=Richard|author-link=Richard Cook (journalist)|author2=Brian Morton|author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]|orig-year=1992|edition=Eighth|year=2006|publisher=Penguin|location=New York|isbn=0-14-102327-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/1267 1267]}}</ref> His composition "Tears for Dolphy" has been used in numerous films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atpfestival.com/archive/line_up_view.php?archive=16&view=459|title=Ted Curson|access-date=2007-07-25|year=2005|work=ATPFestival.com|publisher=[[All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|All Tomorrow's Parties]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dvd.ign.com/articles/697/697167p1.html|title=Teorema|access-date=2007-07-25|last=Gilchrist|first=Todd|date=2006-03-20|work=IGN.com|publisher=IGN Entertainment, Inc.}}</ref><ref>{{IMDb title|0063678|Teorema}}</ref> He was featured in a profile on composer [[Graham Collier]] in the 1985 [[Channel 4]] documentary, ''Hoarded Dreams''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bright-thoughts.co.uk/hoarded-dreams.html|title=Hoarded Dreams|website=Bright-thoughts.co.uk|access-date=August 1, 2024}}</ref> |
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He was a familiar face in Finland, having performed at the [[Pori Jazz]] festival every year since it began in 1966.<ref name="Gustaffson" /> In 2007, he performed at Finland's Independence Day Ball at the invitation of president [[Tarja Halonen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.presidentti.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=67104&intSubArtID=26960 |archive-url=https:// |
He was a familiar face in Finland, having performed at the [[Pori Jazz]] festival every year since it began in 1966.<ref name="Gustaffson" /> In 2007, he performed at Finland's Independence Day Ball at the invitation of president [[Tarja Halonen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.presidentti.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=67104&intSubArtID=26960 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070626124419/http://www.presidentti.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=67104&intSubArtID=26960 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-06-26 |title=The President's Independence Day Reception on 6 December 2007 |access-date=2009-03-24 |publisher=Office of the President of the Republic of Finland}}</ref> |
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A longtime resident of [[Montclair, New Jersey]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080927062323/http://www.nj.com/greatday/stories/more.html "The State of Jazz: Meet 40 More Jersey Greats"], ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', September 28, 2003, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of September 27, 2008. Accessed September 15, 2017. "Ted Curson -- Long-time Montclair resident Curson is a bold trumpeter who has performed and/or recorded with Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor and the Spirit of Life Ensemble."</ref> Curson died |
A longtime resident of [[Montclair, New Jersey]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080927062323/http://www.nj.com/greatday/stories/more.html "The State of Jazz: Meet 40 More Jersey Greats"], ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', September 28, 2003, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of September 27, 2008. Accessed September 15, 2017. "Ted Curson -- Long-time Montclair resident Curson is a bold trumpeter who has performed and/or recorded with Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor and the Spirit of Life Ensemble."</ref> Curson died from a heart attack in the township on November 4, 2012.<ref name="Gustaffson" /> |
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==Discography== |
==Discography== |
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===As leader=== |
===As leader=== |
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* ''[[Plenty of Horn (Ted Curson album)|Plenty of Horn]]'' (Old Town, 1961) |
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* ''[[Ted Curson Plays Fire Down Below]]'' (Prestige, 1963) |
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* ''Live at La'Tete De L'Art'' (Trans-World, 1962) |
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* ''[[Tears for Dolphy]]'' (Fontana, 1965) |
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* ''[[The New Thing & the Blue Thing]]'' (Atlantic, 1965) |
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* ''[[Urge (album)|Urge]]'' (Fontana, 1966) |
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* 1964-66: ''[[Flip Top]]'' ([[Freedom Records|Freedom]]) released 1977 |
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* ''[[Pop Wine]]'' (Futura, 1971) |
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* ''[[Cattin' Curson]]'' (Marge, 1975) |
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* ''[[Blue Piccolo]]'' (Whynot, 1976) |
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* 1973: ''[[Cattin' Curson]]'' ([[Marge Records|Marge]]) / ''Typical Ted'' ([[Trident Records|Trident]]) |
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* ''[[Jubilant Power]]'' (Inner City, 1976) |
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* ''[[Quicksand (Ted Curson album)|Quicksand]]'' (Atlantic, 1977) |
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* 1976: ''[[Blue Piccolo]]'' ([[Whynot Records|Whynot]]) / ''Ted Curson and Co.'' ([[India Navigation]]) |
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* ''[[Flip Top]]'' (Arista/Freedom, 1977) |
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* ''Fireball'' (Trio, 1979) |
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* 1978: ''[[Blowin' Away (Dizzy Reece and Ted Curson album)|Blowin' Away]]'' (Interplay) with [[Dizzy Reece]] |
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* ''[[Blowin' Away (Dizzy Reece and Ted Curson album)|Blowin' Away]]'' with [[Dizzy Reece]] (Interplay, 1978) |
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* ''[[The Trio (Ted Curson album)|The Trio]]'' (Interplay, 1979) |
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* ''[[I Heard Mingus]]'' (Trio, 1980) |
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* ''[[Snake Johnson]]'' (Chiaroscuro, 1981) |
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* 1996: ''Traveling On'' ([[Evidence Music|Evidence]]) |
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* ''Traveling On'' (Evidence, 1997) |
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* 2007: ''Ted Curson in Paris: Live at the Sunside'' (Blue Marge) |
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* 2008: ''Ted Curson & The Clinic Sextet'' (fifty-fifty records) |
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* 2012: ''Live in Paris: Plays the Music of Charles Mingus'' ([[Elabeth Records|Elabeth]]) |
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===As sideman=== |
===As sideman=== |
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'''With [[Pepper Adams]]''' |
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'''With [[Bill Barron (musician)|Bill Barron]]''' |
'''With [[Bill Barron (musician)|Bill Barron]]''' |
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*''[[The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron]]'' (Savoy, 1961) |
* ''[[The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron]]'' (Savoy, 1961) |
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*''[[Modern Windows]]'' (Savoy, |
* ''[[Modern Windows]]'' (Savoy, 1962) |
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* ''Now, Hear This!'' (Audio Fidelity, 1964) |
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'''With [[Nick Brignola]]''' |
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'''With [[Graham Collier]]''' |
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* ''[[Spiral (Andrew Hill album)|Spiral]]'' (Freedom, 1975) |
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'''With [[Charles Mingus]]''' |
'''With [[Charles Mingus]]''' |
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* ''[[Mingus (Charles Mingus album)|Mingus]]'' ([[Candid Records|Candid]], |
* ''[[Mingus (Charles Mingus album)|Mingus]]'' ([[Candid Records|Candid]], 1961) |
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* ''[[Mingus |
* ''[[Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus]]'' (Candid, 1961) |
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* ''[[Mingus |
* ''[[Mingus Revisited]]'' (Limelight, 1965) |
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* ''[[ |
* ''[[Mingus at Antibes]]'' (Atlantic, 1976) |
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'''With [[New York Contemporary Five]]''' |
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'''With [[Sal Nistico]]''' |
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'''With [[Archie Shepp]]''' |
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'''With [[Cecil Taylor]]''' |
'''With [[Cecil Taylor]]''' |
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* ''[[Love for Sale (Cecil Taylor album)|Love for Sale]]'' ([[United Artists Records|United Artists]], 1959) |
* ''[[Love for Sale (Cecil Taylor album)|Love for Sale]]'' ([[United Artists Records|United Artists]], 1959) |
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* ''[[Into the Hot (Gil Evans album)|Into the Hot]]'' (Impulse!, 1962) |
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* ''In Transition'' (Blue Note, 1975) |
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* ''The New Breed'' (ABC Impulse!, 1978) (reissue of tracks from ''Into the Hot'') |
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'''With The Clinic Sextet''' |
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* ''Studio Live'' (fifty-fifty records, 2008) |
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'''With others''' |
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* ''Live au Duc'' (Rise Up, 2001) |
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* [[Ran Blake]], ''Film Noir'' (Arista Novus, 1980) |
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* [[Eric Dolphy]], ''Candid, Dolphy'' (Candid, 1989) |
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* Eric Dolphy, ''Outward Bound'' (Poll Winners, 2011) |
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* [[Gil Evans]], ''Into The Hot'' (Impulse!, 1962) |
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* [[Karin Krog]], ''Joy'' (Meantime, 2008) |
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* [[Teo Macero]], ''Impressions of Charles Mingus'' (Palo Alto, 1983) |
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* [[Misha Mengelberg]] & [[Piet Noordijk]], ''Journey'' (MCN, 2011) |
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* [[Mark Murphy (singer)|Mark Murphy]], ''[[Living Room (Mark Murphy album)|Living Room]]'' (Muse, 1986) |
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* Archie Shepp, ''Quartet'' (FreeFactory, 2009) |
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==References== |
==References== |
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== External links == |
== External links == |
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* http://www.fiftyrecords.com/kauppa/ffcd1052_ted_curson.html |
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* https://web.archive.org/web/20110720194101/http://www.turkujazz.fi/esiintyjat/esittelyt/tcatcs.html |
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* http://www.turunsanomat.fi/ajassa/?ts=1,3:1007:0:0,4:7:0:1:2007-12-05,104:7:502857,1:0:0:0:0:0: |
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Latest revision as of 20:34, 8 November 2024
Ted Curson | |
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Background information | |
Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | June 3, 1935
Died | November 4, 2012 Montclair, New Jersey | (aged 77)
Genres | Jazz, avant-garde jazz |
Occupation | Musician |
Instrument | Trumpet |
Years active | 1955–2012 |
Labels | Prestige, Fontana, Atlantic, Freedom, Futura, Marge, Trident, Whynot, Inner City, Chiaroscuro |
Formerly of | Charles Mingus, Spirit of Life Ensemble |
Theodore Curson (June 3, 1935 – November 4, 2012) was an American jazz trumpeter.[1][2]
Life and career
[edit]Curson was born in Philadelphia.[1] He became interested in playing trumpet after watching a newspaper salesman play a silver trumpet.[3] Curson's father, however, wanted him to play alto saxophone like Louis Jordan.[3] When he was ten, he gained his first trumpet.[3]
He attended Granoff School of Music in Philadelphia.[4] At the suggestion of Miles Davis, he moved to New York in 1956.[1] He performed and recorded with Cecil Taylor in the late 1950s and early 1960s.[1][5] His composition "Tears for Dolphy" has been used in numerous films.[6][7][8] He was featured in a profile on composer Graham Collier in the 1985 Channel 4 documentary, Hoarded Dreams.[9]
He was a familiar face in Finland, having performed at the Pori Jazz festival every year since it began in 1966.[2] In 2007, he performed at Finland's Independence Day Ball at the invitation of president Tarja Halonen.[10]
A longtime resident of Montclair, New Jersey,[11] Curson died from a heart attack in the township on November 4, 2012.[2]
Discography
[edit]As leader
[edit]- Plenty of Horn (Old Town, 1961)
- Ted Curson Plays Fire Down Below (Prestige, 1963)
- Live at La'Tete De L'Art (Trans-World, 1962)
- Tears for Dolphy (Fontana, 1965)
- The New Thing & the Blue Thing (Atlantic, 1965)
- Urge (Fontana, 1966)
- Ode to Booker Ervin (Columbia, 1970)
- Pop Wine (Futura, 1971)
- Cattin' Curson (Marge, 1975)
- Blue Piccolo (Whynot, 1976)
- Jubilant Power (Inner City, 1976)
- Quicksand (Atlantic, 1977)
- Flip Top (Arista/Freedom, 1977)
- Fireball (Trio, 1979)
- Blowin' Away with Dizzy Reece (Interplay, 1978)
- The Trio (Interplay, 1979)
- I Heard Mingus (Trio, 1980)
- Snake Johnson (Chiaroscuro, 1981)
- Traveling On (Evidence, 1997)
As sideman
[edit]With Bill Barron
- The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron (Savoy, 1961)
- Modern Windows (Savoy, 1962)
- Now, Hear This! (Audio Fidelity, 1964)
With Charles Mingus
- Mingus (Candid, 1961)
- Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Candid, 1961)
- Mingus Revisited (Limelight, 1965)
- Mingus at Antibes (Atlantic, 1976)
With Cecil Taylor
- Love for Sale (United Artists, 1959)
- Into the Hot (Impulse!, 1962)
- In Transition (Blue Note, 1975)
- The New Breed (ABC Impulse!, 1978) (reissue of tracks from Into the Hot)
With others
- Pepper Adams, California Cookin' (Interplay, 1991)
- Ran Blake, Film Noir (Arista Novus, 1980)
- Nick Brignola, Baritone Madness (Bee Hive, 1978)
- Bill Dixon & Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (Savoy, 1964)
- Graham Collier, Hoarded Dreams (Cuneiform, 2007)
- Eric Dolphy, Candid, Dolphy (Candid, 1989)
- Eric Dolphy, Outward Bound (Poll Winners, 2011)
- Gil Evans, Into The Hot (Impulse!, 1962)
- Andrew Hill, Spiral (Arista/Freedom, 1975)
- Karin Krog, Joy (Meantime, 2008)
- Teo Macero, Impressions of Charles Mingus (Palo Alto, 1983)
- Misha Mengelberg & Piet Noordijk, Journey (MCN, 2011)
- Mark Murphy, Living Room (Muse, 1986)
- Sal Nistico, Neo/Nistico (Bee Hive, 1978)
- Archie Shepp, Fire Music (Impulse!, 1965)
- Archie Shepp, Quartet (FreeFactory, 2009)
- Andrzej Trzaskowski, Seant (1966)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Wynn, Ron (1994). Ron Wynn (ed.). All Music Guide to Jazz. Allmusic. M. Erlewine, V. Bogdanov. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books. p. 183. ISBN 0-87930-308-5.
- ^ a b c Gustafsson, Sari (2012-11-04). "Pori Jazzin legenda Ted Curson kuoli". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Lehtikuva.
- ^ a b c Allen, Clifford (2005-06-02). "Ted Curson: Atypical Ted". Allaboutjazz.com. All About Jazz. Retrieved 2007-08-02.
- ^ Biography at AllMusic (web version)
- ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (Eighth ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 1267. ISBN 0-14-102327-9.
- ^ "Ted Curson". ATPFestival.com. All Tomorrow's Parties. 2005. Retrieved 2007-07-25.
- ^ Gilchrist, Todd (2006-03-20). "Teorema". IGN.com. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved 2007-07-25.
- ^ Teorema at IMDb
- ^ "Hoarded Dreams". Bright-thoughts.co.uk. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
- ^ "The President's Independence Day Reception on 6 December 2007". Office of the President of the Republic of Finland. Archived from the original on 2007-06-26. Retrieved 2009-03-24.
- ^ "The State of Jazz: Meet 40 More Jersey Greats", The Star-Ledger, September 28, 2003, backed up by the Internet Archive as of September 27, 2008. Accessed September 15, 2017. "Ted Curson -- Long-time Montclair resident Curson is a bold trumpeter who has performed and/or recorded with Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor and the Spirit of Life Ensemble."
External links
[edit]- 1935 births
- 2012 deaths
- American jazz trumpeters
- American male trumpeters
- Atlantic Records artists
- Bebop trumpeters
- Chiaroscuro Records artists
- Freedom Records artists
- Hard bop trumpeters
- India Navigation artists
- Mainstream jazz trumpeters
- American male jazz musicians
- Jazz musicians from New Jersey
- Jazz musicians from Philadelphia
- Prestige Records artists
- Musicians from Montclair, New Jersey
- New York Contemporary Five members
- 20th-century American trumpeters
- 20th-century American male musicians
- 21st-century American trumpeters
- 21st-century American male musicians