Curtis Amy

Curtis Amy ( born October 11, 1929 in Houston, Texas, † June 5, 2002 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American tenor and soprano saxophonist and flautist of the hard bop and soul jazz.

Life

Curtis Amy first learned clarinet, then went to the Army, and moved at this time to tenor saxophone. After his release, he studied at the Kentucky State College. He worked as a music teacher in Tennessee and played at the same time in jazz clubs of the American Midwest. The mid-1950s he moved to Los Angeles and took from 1960 to 1963 a series of albums for Pacific Jazz Records on how the albums The Blues Message and Meetin ' Here. On Groovin 'Blue had also Carmell Jones and Bobby Hutcherson with. Caused a sensation in his album Katanga, especially through the participation of the trumpeter Dupree Bolton. Amy was known at that time barely out of Los Angeles '.

Curtis Amy was married to singer Merry Clayton. The mid-1960s worked for Ray Charles, and later as a studio musician and worked in 1969 with a short solo in the Doors song Touch Me with, but also took 1971 Carole King ( eg, So Far Away as a flutist on her album Tapestry ), Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Smokey Robinson or Lou Rawls. His last work was the album Peace for Love in 1994, participated in the guest musicians like Frank Leon Ndugu Chancler and Strazzeri.

Discography

• The Blues Message aka This Is The Blues ( Kimberly 1960) with Paul Bryant
• Groovin ' Blue ( Pacific Jazz 1961) with Frank Butler, Bobby Hutcherson, Carmell Jones
• Way Down ( Pacific Jazz 1962) with Victor Feldman
• Katanga! ( Pacific Jazz 1963) with Dupree Bolton, Marcus Belgrave, Ray Crawford
• Sounds Of Hollywood ( Palomar 1965)
• Mustang ( Verve 1966)
• Peace for Love ( Fresh Sound Records, 1994)