Ive just seen that the trumpet player Ted Curson died on 4th November after a heart attack. He was 77, in good shape, and had been looking forward to gigs the following week.
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The quintet recordings with Bill Barron on tenor (Kenny's elder bro) are wonderful.
Tears for Dolphy, some lovely trumpet and Bill's tenor...a much neglected player.
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first got to know his playing from his work with Mingus, but this album always lifted my lid
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I saw him live once, by accident.
I was on holiday in Turku in Finland about eight or nine years ago, saw there was a bar and restaurant, Vaakahuone, down by the river which put on free live jazz, and decided that would be as good a place as any to have dinner. I'd no great expectations of the music, expecting to hear a local band of greater or lesser competence tootling away at trad or mainstream tunes.
Once I'd ordered my beer and food, I picked up the flier to see who was on that night. Somewhat to my surprise, it was Ted Curson. He was working with a decent enough local trio, playing standards. By that time his chops had gone a bit, but he still had plenty of good ideas, even if the execution wasn't as clean as it would once have been.
Curson seemed to be a regular visitor to the venue: there's a picture of him on his Wikipedia page taken there in 2009.Comment
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