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KING CURTIS

HIS FIRST EIGHT CLASSIC ALBUMS: 1959-1962 (4CD)
Label ENLIGHTENMENT
Catalog EN4CD9126
Format CD
Discs 4
Category JAZZ/BLUES/COUNTRY
Street Date 2017-08-14
Description
Of all the musicians to have adopted the saxophone as instrument of choice few players have been as diverse and adaptable as King Curtis. A virtuoso on tenor alto and soprano Curtis embraced jazz soul pop R&B rock & roll funk and even country during his productive albeit short career. Variously a bandleader band member and session musician he was also a musical director and record producer. Curtis played alongside a diverse range of other musicians and performers including Wynton Kelly Nat Adderley Buddy Holly Waylon Jennings Andy Williams Duane Allman Champion Jack Dupree Aretha Franklin and John Lennon among numerous others. However it is his early solo albums on which King Curtis’s finest playing can be heard. Having produced such a broad catalogue over his 21 years in the music business this collection brings together the finest of King Curtis’s output from 1959 to 1962 including eight solo albums and a number of singles. Demonstrating his musical progress across five hours of faithfully remastered tracks this collection will form the perfect starting point for those looking to discover this legendary musician or as a welcome reminder to those already well-versed in the great man’s work.
tracklisting
CD 1:
1. Heavenly Blues
2. Restless Guitar
3. Castle Rock
4. Honeydripper (Pt. 1)
5. Honeydripper (Pt. 2)
Tracks 1-5 Singles 1959
6. Midnight Ramble
7. Linda
8. The Shake
9. Jaywalk
10 . Lil Brother
11. Peter Gunn
12. The Groove
13. Snake Eyes
14. Cuban Twilight
15. Birth Of The Blues
16. Chili
Tracks 6-16 Have Tenor Sax Will Blow 1959
17. Close Your Eyes
18. Unchained Melody
19. Off Shore
20. The Nearness Of You
21. Misty
22. Stranger
23. When I Fall In Love
24. It Aint Necessarily So
25. Our Love Is Here To Stay
26. My Love Is Your Love
27. Sweet And Lovely
28. Azure
Tracks 17-28 Azure 1960

CD 2:
1. King Neptunes Guitar
2. Beatnik Hoedown
Tracks 1-2 Singles 1960
3. Soul Meeting
4. Lazy Soul
5. All The Way
6. Jeeps Blues
7. What Is This Thing Called Love
8. Do You Have Soul Now
Tracks 3-8 Soul Meeting 1960
9. Da Duh Dah
10. Have You Heard
11. Willow Weep For Me
12. Little Brother Soul
13. In A Funky Groove
Tracks 9-13 The New Scene Of King Curtis 1960

CD 3:
1. Hot Rod
2. Bonapartes Retreat
3. The Lone Prairie
Tracks 1-3 Singles 1961
4. Fever
5. Honky Tonk
6. So Rare
7. Tippin In
8. You Came A Long Way From St. Louis
9. Tuxedo Junction
10. The Hucklebuck
11. Lean Baby
12. Harlem Nocturne
13. Night Train
14. Soft
Tracks 4-14 Old Gold 1961
15. Trouble In Mind
16. Jivin Time
17. Nobody Wants You When Youre Down And Out
18. Bad Bad Whiskey
19. I Have To Worry
20. Woke Up This Morning
21. But Thats Alright
22. Aint Nobodys Business
23. Dont Deceive Me (Please Dont Go)
24. Deep Fry
Tracks 15-24 Trouble In Mind 1962

CD 4:
1. Low Down
2. Ill Wait For You
3. Free For All
4. When The Saints Go Marching In
5. Beach Party
6. Turn Em On
7. Strollin Home
8. Mess Around
Tracks 1-8 Singles 1962
9. Any Time
10. Wagon Wheels
11. Home On The Range
12. Your Cheatin Heart
13. Brown Eyes
14. Night Train To Memphis
15. Raunchy
16. Im Movin On
17. High Noon
18. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
19. Tennessee Waltz
20. Walking The Floor Over You
Tracks 9-20 Country Soul 1962
21. Soul Twist
22. Twisting Time
23. Whatd I Say
25. I Know
24. Sack O Woe Twist
25. Camp Meetin
26. Wobble Twist
27. Irresistible You
28. Big Dipper
29. Twisting With The King
30. Midnight Blue
Tracks 21-30 Soul Twist 1962
 

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