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Charles Mingus: Mingus At Antibes
by C. Michael Bailey
Charles Mingus. You just have to know that he would have nudged, cajoled, or bullied his way into the top of this list, even twenty years after his death. Mingus at Antibes is a kinetic, frenetic, dysthymic document of the genius of an overly stimulated, overly indulgent, and overly gifted personality. Mingus was not unlike Mozart in the respect that many of Mozart's contemporaries pondered why God granted such an undeserving imp such talent. So with Mingus. How could such ...
read moreTed Curson: Atypical Ted
by Clifford Allen
“Journeyman is often applied to those in the jazz business, but “stevedore might be more apt. After all, both individuality and slow recognition are the result of impossibly hard work, and Curson is the rule rather than the exception. Born June 3rd, 1935 in Philadelphia, Ted Curson came to music early on, playing saxophone from age five and trumpet from ten. “When I was a kid, there was a guy who came through the streets selling newspapers, and he had ...
read moreTed Curson: We Shall Not Soon Forget
by AAJ Staff
By Ted Curson Too many jazz folks have left us this year. But in my career I have had the pleasure of at least a brush with many of them. Robin Kenyatta During the '60s, all musicians worth their salt were worried about their sound and their soloing and how many choruses they planned to play. I called Robin Kenyatta for my last date on Atlantic Records - the album called Quicksand. ...
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