BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Theodore Curson
NickName: “Ted”
Description: Trumpeter, USA
Known For: 1965: The New Thing and the Blue Thing (Atlantic Records)
Instruments: Trumpet
Music Styles: Bebop, hard bop, avant-garde jazz
Location: PA, United States of America
Date Born: 3rd June 1935
Location Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date Died: 4th November 2012
Location Died: Montclair, New Jersey, United States of America
CONTACT DETAILS
Web Site: Ted Curson at AllMusic
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Ted Curson
An American jazz trumpeter. He is perhaps best known for recording and performing with Charles Mingus.
Curson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He became interested in playing trumpet after watching a newspaper salesman play a silver trumpet. Curson’s father, however, preferred that his son should become an alto saxophone player like Louis Jordan.
Finally, when Ted was 10 years old, he received his first trumpet.
Curson attended Granoff School of Music in Philadelphia. At the suggestion of Miles Davis, he moved to New York in 1956. Curson performed and recorded with Cecil Taylor in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His 1964 Eric Dolphy tribute composition “Tears for Dolphy” has been used in numerous films.
Curson was a resident of Montclair, New Jersey. He was also a familiar face in Finland, having performed annually at the Pori Jazz festival each year since the beginning of the event in 1966.’
In 2007, Curson performed at Finland’s Independence Day Ball at the invitation of president Tarja Halonen.
Curson died on November 4, 2012 in Montclair. (aged 77)
Discography
As leader
1961: Plenty of Horn
1962: Fire Down Below (Prestige Records)
1964: Tears for Dolphy (Black Lion Records)
1964: Flip Top (Freedom Records)
1965: The New Thing and the Blue Thing (Atlantic Records)
1966: Urge (Fontana)
1970: Ode to Booker Ervin (EMI)
1971: Pop Wine
1973: Typical Ted (Trident Records)
1973: Cattin’ Curson
1974: Quicksand (Atlantic Records)
1976: Blue Piccolo (Whynot Records)
1976: Ted Curson and Co. (India Navigation)
1978: ‘Round About Midnight
1979: Snake Johnson (Chiaroscuro Records)
1980: I Heard Mingus
1990: Travelling On
2007: In Paris – Live At The Sunside (Blue Marge)
2012: Live in Paris – Plays the Music of Charles Mingus (Elabeth)
As sidemanWith Andrew Hill
Spiral (Freedom, 1975)
With Charles Mingus
Mingus (Candid, 1960)
Mingus Revisited (Mercury, 1960)
Mingus at Antibes (Atlantic, 1960)
Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Candid, 1960)
WIth New York Contemporary Five
Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5
With Sal Nistico
Neo / Nistico (Bee Hive Records)
With Archie Shepp
Fire Music (Impulse!, 1965)
With Cecil Taylor
Love for Sale (1959)
Mixed (1961)
With Andrzej Trzaskowski
Seant (1966)
With The Clinic Sextet
Studio Live (Fifty Fifty Records 2006)
With Spirit Of Life Ensemble
Live Au Duc (Rise Up Productions 2001)
Planet Jazz (Rise Up Productions 2009)
With Nick Brignola and Pepper Adams
External links:
- Ted Curson at AllMusic
- http://www.fiftyrecords.com/kauppa/ffcd1052_ted_curson.html
- http://www.turkujazz.fi/esiintyjat/esittelyt/tcatcs.html
- 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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