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Pop Wine

by Ted Curson

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Pop Wine 05:06
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Lonely One 05:44
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Flip Top 06:31

about

Originally from Philadelphia, invited to New York by Miles Davis, playing at Antibes in 1960 with Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy, here is trumpeter Ted Curson in 1971… in Paris. With him, a legendary trio: Georges Arvanitas (piano), Jacky Samson (double bass) and Charles Saudrais (drums). A new transatlantic alliance in the service of jazz of all kinds: classic, modal, fusion and even free… Pop Wine is – between Coltrane and Miles with a nod to roots in the club the Caveau de la Huchette – an explosive cocktail but which leaves no stains!

In 1960, trumpeter Ted Curson played with Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy on stage at the Antibes jazz festival. Eleven years later he was in Paris to record one of the gems of his discography, with a hard-hitting French trio: Georges Arvanitas
(piano), Jacky Samson (double bass) and Charles Saudrais (drums).
Arvanitas was also someone who had travelled widely. Originally from Marseille, he had accompanied visiting American
musicians in Paris before moving to the States. It was when he came back that the charismatic trio was created with
Samson and Saudrais and who recorded, in 1970 on Futura, the unforgettable In Concert and then, the following year, Pop
Wine with Ted Curson.
Pop Wine: don’t be fooled into thinking you are going to hear jazz musicians trying to play pop after uncorking too many
bottles. For, although the album occasionally tends toward fusion, it is first and foremost a wonderful jazz recording; and a
recording with enough fizz to make your head spin!
There are five tracks in total: Quartier Latin reminds us a little of Olé Coltrane (Curson, like the saxophonist, is originally
from Philadelphia), Flip Top where the trumpet and piano play out a chase scene through the streets of Paris, Pop Wine
where funk and cool jazz meet on the barricades of black and white, L.S.D. Takes A Holiday which breaks out in a style close
to free jazz, and finally Lonely One, with the impression that ends this unclassifiable album. Unclassifiable, unless we decide
to elevate Pop Wine to the rank of a great vintage.

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released September 10, 2021

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