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Curtis Ousley (7 février 1934 à Fort Worth au Texas, 13 août 1971 à New York), qui a joué sous le nom de King Curtis, est un saxophoniste ténor, alto et soprano américain qui a joué du jazz, du R&B et de la soul. Élevé par ses parents adoptifs à Mansfield au Texas, il apprend le saxophone alto à l'âge de 12 ans. Il se met au saxophone ténor avec l'orchestre de son collège, et se lance ensuite dans des études musicales.
Lors d'un passage de Lionel Hampton dans sa ville, King Curtis est engagé dans son orchestre, avec lequel il part à New York en 1953. Il s'y produit dans des formations de jazz (dont un trio avec Horace Silver en 1954).
À la fin des années 1950, il joue sur le label Atco (de Atlantic Records), et se retrouve ainsi pagnant sur disque des me Chuck Willis, Clyde McPhatter ou les Coasters. Il signe finalement un contrat d'artiste sur le label Prestige, où il sort de 60 à 61 plusieurs album jazz et R&B, dont deux avec Nat Adderley et Wynton Kelly. Son premier succès est Soul Twist en 1962, enregistré chez Enjoy Records sous le nom de King Curtis & The Noble Knights. Il part cette même année en tournée avec Sam Cooke, à la tête du groupe Soul Inc.; à cette occasion il participera à l'enregistrement du Live at the Harlem Square Club.
En 1963, il signe chez Capitol Records, où il enregistre une année plus tard son deuxième succès, Soul Serenade. Il retournera ensuite chez Atlantic, où il restera jusqu'à sa mort. L'année 1967 est un tournant dans sa carrière. Deux de ses singles se classent 6e des R&B charts (Memphis Soul Stew et Ode to Billie Joe). Il se met à diriger des séances d'enregistrement, produit avec Jerry Wexler, puis bientôt seul. Il devient également directeur musical de Aretha Franklin, aidé des Kingpins, son équipe de travail (généposée de Richard Tee, Cornell Dupree, Jerry Jemmott et Bernard Purdie). Sa notoriété est alors faite. Il est invité dans bon nombre de festivals, et se produit dans des lieux tels que le Fillmore West et le Fillmore East. Des me Duane Allman ou Billy Preston travaillent sur ses albums. En 1971, alors que sa carrière est à son point culminant et qu'il travaille sur l'album Imagine de John Lennon et qu'mence une production pour Freddie King, il est assassiné le 13 août à coups de couteaux au cours d'une altercation avec des dealers devant son immeuble du West 86th Street à New York.(Wikipedia)
King Curtis was a dynamic tenor sax player whose work graced countless rock and roll and R&B records. Born Curtis Ousley in Fort Worth, Texas, his trademark was a honking Texas tenor sound inspired by his main influences Illinois Jacquet, Earl Bostic, Arnett Cobb albeit with a rock and roll edge. He moved to New York in 1952 and played with Lionel Hampton’s and Horace Silver’s jazz groups. He began doing session work for R&B and rock and roll artists in the mid-Fifties. One of his most memorable solos, and the one that sealed his reputation as a rock and roll sideman, appeared in the Coasters’ 1958 smash, “Yakety Yak.” King Curtis can also be heard on such seminal early sides as “A Lover’s Question,” by Clyde McPhatter, “Boys,” by the Shirelles, and “Reminiscing,” by Buddy Holly (which he cowrote). As part of Atlantic Records’ stable, he played on sessions for Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke, Don Covay, Bobby Darin, and others. In later years, he also produced (or coproduced) albums for Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Delaney and Bonnie, Freddy King and Sam Moore (of Sam and Dave). Pursuing a career as a solo artist all the while, King Curtis recorded under his own name for the Prestige, Enjoy, Capitol and Atlantic labels. He cut such instrumental hits as “Soul Twist” (#1 R&B, #17 pop) and “Memphis Soul Stew” (#6 R&B, #33 pop). In the late Sixties and early Seventies, he crossed paths with rock icons like Eric Clapton (who performed on King Curtis’s “Teasin’” in 1970) and the Allman Brothers Band (who paid tribute to King Curtis by incorporating his “Soul Serenade” into their “You Don’t Love Me” during a New York performance shortly after his death). King Curtis was revered by his fellow musicians, especially Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band (a fellow Atlantic Records sideman), and Robbie Robertson of The Band, who has cited him as a major influence.
King Curtis was working as Aretha Franklin’s musical director and had also recently done sessions for John Lennon’s Imagine album when he was stabbed to death by a drug addict with whom he argued outside his New York City apartment on August 13, 1971. “He wasn’t only a rock and roll saxophone player,” Atlantic’s Jerry Wexler noted at King Curtis’s funeral, which attracted such luminaries as Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Duane Allman and Rev. Jesse Jackson. “He was a very good jazz player and a very sensitive virtuoso.”()
Discographie partielle :
1959 The Good Old Fifties 1959 Have Tenor Sax, Will Blow 1960 Azure 1960 king soul 1960 Soul Meeting 1961 Party Time 1961 Trouble In Mind 1961 Old Gold 1961 Night Train 1962 Doin' the Dixie Twist 1962 Country Soul 1962 king curtis & the Noble Knights - soul twist 1962 Soul Twist and Other Golden Classics 1962 It's Party Time 1962 The best of 1964 Soul Serenade 1965 Plays Hits Made by Sam Cooke 1966 That Lovin' Feeling 1966 Live At Small's Paradise 1967 play Great Memphis Hits 1967 king curtis and the kingpins - King size Soul 1968 Sweet Soul 1968 king curtis and the shirelles - Eternally, Soul 1970 Everybody Talkin 1970 get ready 1971 Live at Filmore West - live 1971 Blues a Montreux 1972 mr Soul 1972 Soul Time 1985 Live In New York 1994 Instant Soul - The legendary King Curtis pilation 2006 Memphis Soul Stew 2007 The Platinum Collection (Wikipedia)
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