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Jun 03, 1935 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Died on 04 Nov 2012 (aged 77)
Jazz trumpeter
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About Ted Curson
- Theodore Curson (June 3, 1935 – November 4, 2012) was an American jazz trumpeter.Curson was born in Philadelphia.
- He became interested in playing trumpet after watching a newspaper salesman play a silver trumpet.
- Curson's father, however, wanted him to play alto saxophone like Louis Jordan.
- When he was ten, he got his first trumpet.He attended Granoff School of Music in Philadelphia.
- At the suggestion of Miles Davis, he moved to New York in 1956.
- He performed and recorded with Cecil Taylor in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
- His composition "Tears for Dolphy" has been used in numerous films.He was a familiar face in Finland, having performed at the Pori Jazz festival every year since it began in 1966.
- In 2007, he performed at Finland's Independence Day Ball at the invitation of president Tarja Halonen.A longtime resident of Montclair, New Jersey, Curson died there on November 4, 2012.
