Tears for Dolphy

Tears for Dolphy
Tears for Dolphy
Studio album by Ted Curson
Released	20 December 1964
Recorded	1 August 1964
Genre	Jazz
Length	61:24 (CD)
Label	Fontana (LP); Black Lion (CD)
Producer	Alan Bates
Ted Curson chronology
Alternative cover
	Black Lion CD release

Tears for Dolphy is a 1964 album by jazz trumpeter Ted Curson. The album's title track, an elegy for Eric Dolphy (who died at the end of June that year), has been used in many films.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[4]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+^[5]
Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed., 2008)	^[6]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[7]

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."^[8] Earlier editions of The Penguin Guide to Jazz give the album a rating of three-and-a-half stars.^[6]

Chuck Berg, writing for Down Beat, said 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."^[9]

Scott Yanow of AllMusic asserts that most tracks "manage to be both explorative and surprisingly accessible."^[4]

Track listing

All tracks recorded on August 1, 1964.^[4]^[10]

"Kassim" (Ted Curson) – 7:41
"East 6th Street" (Bill Barron) – 5:38
"7/4 Funny Time" (Barron) – 5:28
"Tears for Dolphy" (Curson) – 8:32
"Quicksand" (Curson) – 6:39
"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:^[4]

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

8. "Desolation" (Barron) – 8:45

9. "Light Blue" (Barron) – 3:43

Personnel

References

^ "Ted Curson". ATPFestival.com. All Tomorrow's Parties. 2005. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
^ Gilchrist, Todd (March 20, 2006). "Teorema". IGN.com. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
^ Soundtrack of Teorema at IMDb
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Yanow, Scott. Tears for Dolphy at AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: C". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 23, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 53. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Morton, Brian; Richard Cook (2010). The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (10th ed.). New York: Penguin. pp. 305–306. ISBN 978-0-14-104831-4.
^ Wynn, Ron (1994), Ron Wynn (ed.), All Music Guide to Jazz, M. Erlewine, V. Bogdanov, San Francisco: Miller Freeman, p. 183, ISBN 0-87930-308-5
^ ^a ^b Fitzgerald, Michael (June 15, 2006). "Bill Barron Issue Index". Retrieved August 3, 2007.

[atp-1] "Ted Curson". ATPFestival.com. All Tomorrow's Parties. 2005. Retrieved November 6, 2012.

[gilchrist-2] Gilchrist, Todd (March 20, 2006). "Teorema". IGN.com. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved July 25, 2007.

[imdb-3] Soundtrack of Teorema at IMDb

[amg-4] Yanow, Scott. Tears for Dolphy at AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-07-06.

[5] Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: C". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 23, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.

[penguin9-6] Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.

[RSJRG-7] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 53. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[penguin10-8] Morton, Brian; Richard Cook (2010). The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (10th ed.). New York: Penguin. pp. 305–306. ISBN 978-0-14-104831-4.

[wynn-9] Wynn, Ron (1994), Ron Wynn (ed.), All Music Guide to Jazz, M. Erlewine, V. Bogdanov, San Francisco: Miller Freeman, p. 183, ISBN 0-87930-308-5

[fitzgerald-10] Fitzgerald, Michael (June 15, 2006). "Bill Barron Issue Index". Retrieved August 3, 2007.

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v t e Ted Curson
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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