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Tears for Dolphy

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Released
  
1964 (1964)

Length
  
61:24 (CD)

Artist
  
Label
  
Black Lion Records

Recorded
  
August 1, 1964

Producer
  
Alan Bates

Release date
  
1964

Genre
  
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Tears for Dolphy(1964)
  
The New Thing & the Blue Thing(1965)

Similar
  
Ted Curson albums, Jazz albums

Ted curson tears for dolphy


Tears for Dolphy is a 1964 album by jazz trumpeter Ted Curson. The album's title track, an elegy for Eric Dolphy, has been used in numerous films.

Contents

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Reception

Brian Morton and Richard Cook, writing for The Penguin Guide to Jazz, give Tears for Dolphy a favorable review, noting "a raw sorrow in the title tune," a robust rhythm section, and the leader's "high, slightly old-fashioned sound." Earlier editions of The Penguin Guide to Jazz give the album a rating of three-and-a-half stars.

Chuck Berg, writing for Down Beat, notes Curson and saxophonist Bill Barron's "tough, but highly melodic lines above the steady and crisp rhythmic substructure ably provided by bassist Herb Bushler and drummer Dick Berk."

Scott Yanow of AllMusic asserts that most tracks "manage to be both explorative and surprisingly accessible."

Track listing

All tracks recorded on August 1, 1964.

  1. "Kassim" (Ted Curson) – 7:41
  2. "East 6th Street" (Bill Barron) – 5:38
  3. "7/4 Funny Time" (Barron) – 5:28
  4. "Tears for Dolphy" (Curson) – 8:32
  5. "Quicksand" (Curson) – 6:39
  6. "Reava's Waltz" (Curson) – 7:10

The Black Lion CD (1993) appends three tracks from the same recording session, but that originally appeared on the album Flip Top:

7. "Searching for the Blues" (Curson) – 7:478. "Desolation" (Barron) – 8:459. "Light Blue" (Barron) - 3:43

Personnel

  • Ted Curson – trumpet, pocket trumpet
  • Bill Barron – tenor saxophone, clarinet
  • Herb Bushler – double bass
  • Dick Berk – drums
  • Unidentified – percussion
  • Alan Bates – producer, liner notes
  • Songs

    1Kassim7:41
    2East 6th Street5:38
    37/4 Funny Time5:28

    References

    Tears for Dolphy Wikipedia


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