Ode to Booker Ervin

Ode to Booker Ervin
Ode to Booker Ervin
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
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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.

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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

^ Ted Curson discography accessed February 26, 2015
^ Fitzgerald, M., Ted Curson leader entry, accessed February 26, 2015
^ ^a ^b Wynne R., Allmusic Review accessed February 26, 2015

[Ted_Curson_discography-1] Ted Curson discography accessed February 26, 2015

[2] Fitzgerald, M., Ted Curson leader entry, accessed February 26, 2015

[Allmusic-3] Wynne R., Allmusic Review accessed February 26, 2015

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader 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)
With Charles Mingus	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)
With others	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)

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