KATANGA Curtis Amy & Dupree Bolton lp Blue Note Tone Poet Series w/Insert Mint
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KATANGA! Curtis Amy & Dupree Bolton lp Blue Note Tone Poet Series w/Insert Mint OOP
Katanga! is an album by saxophonist Curtis Amy recorded in early 1963 for the Pacific Jazz label
Originally released in 1963 by Pacific Jazz Records
Includes 12x12 inch single-sided insert with new reissue liner notes.
Curtis Amy (October 11, 1929 – June 5, 2002) was an American jazz saxophonist. Amy was born in Houston, Texas, United States.[2] He learned how to play clarinetbefore joining the Army, and during his time in service, picked up the tenor saxophone.After his discharge, he attended and graduated from Kentucky State College. He worked as an educator in Tennessee while playing in midwestern jazz clubs. In the mid-1950s, he relocated to Los Angeles and later signed with Pacific Jazz Records, often playing with organist Paul Bryant. In the mid-1960s, he spent three years as musical director of Ray Charles' orchestra, together with his wife, Merry Clayton, and Steve Huffstete As well as leading his own bands and recording albums under his own name, Amy did session work and played the solos on several recordings, including The Doors song "Touch Me", Carole King's Tapestry, and Lou Rawls' first albums, Black and Blue and Tobacco Road, coinciding with Dexter Gordon in the Onzy Matthews big band, as well as working with Marvin Gaye, Tammy Terrell and Smokey Robinson
Dupree Bolton (3 March 1929 – 5 June 1993) was a jazz trumpeter from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is known primarily for his appearance as a backing musician on two hard bop jazz albums, the first led by Harold Land in 1959, and the second led by Curtis Amy in 1963. Bolton spend most of his adult life incarcerated for non-violent crimes related to his drug addiction, and he was considered a mysterious figure by jazz musicians and writers during his lifetime because of the lack of available information about him. He played with relatively few jazz musicians during his musical prime, mainly in the Los Angeles area and inside U.S. prisons including San Quentin and Soledad. Biographical information on Bolton began to emerge following his death, most notably in the work of jazz historian Ted Gioia, who was able to find and interview Bolton four years before Bolton's death in 1993.
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