Ode to Booker Ervin
1970 studio album by Ted Curson & Co.
Ode to Booker Ervin | ||||
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Studio album by Ted Curson & Co. | ||||
Released | 1970 | |||
Recorded | September 3, 1970 | |||
Studio | Finnvox Studios, Helsinki, Finland | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | EMI Columbia 5E 062-34201 | |||
Ted Curson chronology | ||||
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Ode to Booker Ervin is an album by American trumpeter Ted Curson which was recorded in Helsinki and first released on the Finnish EMI Columbia label in 1970.[1][2] The album features Curson with a band composed of local Finnish jazz musicians. The album is dedicated to tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin who died at the end of August 1970, a few days before the recording session.
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [3] |
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.[3]
Track listing
All compositions by Ted Curson except as indicated
- "Ode to Booker Ervin" - 2:07
- "LSD Takes Holiday" - 5:43
- "Airi's Tune" - 7:41
- "Montreux" (Pentti Hietanen) - 6:38
- "Festival Blue" (Hietanen) - 6:43
- "Typical Ted" - 7:05
- "The Leopard" - 8:31
Personnel
- Ted Curson - trumpet, pocket trumpet
- Eero Koivistoinen - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
- Pentti Hietanen - piano, electric piano
- Pekka Sarmanto - bass
- Reino Laine - drums
References
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
or co-leader
- Plenty of Horn (1961)
- Ted Curson Plays Fire Down Below (1962)
- Flip Top (1964–66)
- Tears for Dolphy (1964)
- The New Thing & the Blue Thing (1965)
- Urge (1966)
- Ode to Booker Ervin (1970)
- Pop Wine (1971)
- Cattin' Curson (1973)
- Quicksand (1974)
- Blue Piccolo (1976)
- Jubilant Power (1976)
- Blowin' Away (and Dizzy Reece, 1978)
- The Trio (1979)
- I Heard Mingus (1980)
- Snake Johnson (1981)
- Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1960)
- Mingus (with Charles Mingus, 1960)
- Mingus at Antibes (with Charles Mingus, 1960)
- Mingus Revisited/Pre-Bird (with Charles Mingus, 1960)
- California Cookin' (Pepper Adams, 1983)
- The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron (1961)
- Modern Windows (Bill Barron, 1961)
- Baritone Madness (Nick Brignola and Pepper Adams, 1977)
- Hoarded Dreams (Graham Collier, 1983)
- Spiral (Andrew Hill, 1974–75)
- Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (New York Contemporary Five, split album, 1964)
- Fire Music (Archie Shepp, 1965)
- Love for Sale (Cecil Taylor, 1959)
- Seant (Andrzej Trzaskowski, 1965–66)