Tears for Dolphy

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Tears for Dolphy
Studio album by Ted Curson
Released	1964 (1964)
Recorded	August 1, 1964
Genre	Jazz
Length	61:24 (CD)
Label	Black Lion
Producer	Alan Bates
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Penguin Guide to Jazz 3rd Ed., 1996
Ted Curson chronology
Flip Top 1964 Tears for Dolphy 1964 The New Thing and the Blue Thing 1965

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 the films Teorema, Last Date, and The Brown Bunny.^[1][2][3]

[edit] Track listing

All tracks recorded on August 1, 1964.^[4][5]

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 session that originally appeared on the album Flip Top^[4]:

7. "Searching for the Blues" (Curson) - 7:47

8. "Desolation" (Barron) - 8:45

9. "Light Blue" (Barron) - 3:43

[edit] Personnel

• Ted Curson - trumpet, pocket trumpet
• Bill Barron - tenor saxophone, clarinet
• Herb Bushler - double bass
• Dick Berk - drums
• unidentified - percussion^[5]
• Alan Bates - producer, liner notes

[edit] References

1. ^ Ted Curson (HTML) (English). ATPFestival.com. All Tomorrow's Parties (2005). Retrieved on 2007-07-25.
2. ^ Gilchrist, Todd (2006-03-20). Teorema (HTML) (English). IGN.com. IGN Entertainment, Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-07-25.
3. ^ Teorema at the Internet Movie Database
4. ^ ^{a b} Review at Allmusic
5. ^ ^{a b} Fitzgerald, Michael (2006-06-15). Bill Barron Issue Index (HTML) (English). Retrieved on 2007-08-03.