Ted Curson Plays Fire Down Below

Ted Curson Plays Fire Down Below
Studio album by
Ted Curson
Released1963
RecordedDecember 10, 1962
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length30:44
LabelPrestige PRLP 7263
ProducerOzzie Cadena
Ted Curson chronology
Plenty of Horn
(1961) 		Ted Curson Plays Fire Down Below
(1963) 		Tears for Dolphy
(1964)

Ted Curson Plays Fire Down Below is an album by American trumpeter Ted Curson which was recorded in 1962 and released on the Prestige label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [3]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated, "The main fault of this otherwise superior CD reissue is that there are only 31 minutes of music... Curson, 27 at the time, is heard in top form on one of the very few of his sessions to be reissued ".[2]

Track listing

  1. "Fire Down Below" (Lester Lee, Ned Washington) - 4:36
  2. "The Very Young" (Harold Little, Herb Sacker) - 4:39
  3. "Baby Has Gone Bye Bye" (Robert Allen, Allan Roberts) - 4:38
  4. "Show Me" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) - 4:26
  5. "Falling in Love With Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 5:29
  6. "Only Forever" (Johnny Burke, James V. Monaco) - 6:56

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Prestige Records discography accessed December 5, 2012
  2. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed December 5, 2012
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.