Ted Curson

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Theodore Curson (June 3, 1935 – November 4, 2012) was an American jazz trumpeter.<ref name="wynn">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Gustaffson">Template:Cite news</ref>

Life and careerEdit

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">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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 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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

A longtime resident of Montclair, New Jersey,<ref>"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" />

DiscographyEdit

As leaderEdit

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 sidemanEdit

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)

ReferencesEdit

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