Ted Curson Plays Fire Down Below

Studio album by

Ted Curson

Released

1963

Recorded

December 10, 1962

Studio

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Genre

Jazz

Length

30:44

Label

Prestige PRLP 7263

Producer

Ozzie 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]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
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

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

Personnel

References

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

v t e Ted Curson
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Plenty of Horn (1961) Ted Curson Plays Fire Down Below (1962) Flip Top (1964–66) Tears for Dolphy (1964) The New Thing & the Blue Thing (1965) Urge (1966) Ode to Booker Ervin (1970) Pop Wine (1971) Cattin' Curson (1973) Quicksand (1974) Blue Piccolo (1976) Jubilant Power (1976) Blowin' Away (and Dizzy Reece, 1978) The Trio (1979) I Heard Mingus (1980) Snake Johnson (1981)
With Charles Mingus	Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1960) Mingus (with Charles Mingus, 1960) Mingus at Antibes (with Charles Mingus, 1960) Mingus Revisited/Pre-Bird (with Charles Mingus, 1960)
With others	California Cookin' (Pepper Adams, 1983) The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron (1961) Modern Windows (Bill Barron, 1961) Baritone Madness (Nick Brignola and Pepper Adams, 1977) Hoarded Dreams (Graham Collier, 1983) Spiral (Andrew Hill, 1974–75) Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (New York Contemporary Five, split album, 1964) Fire Music (Archie Shepp, 1965) Love for Sale (Cecil Taylor, 1959) Seant (Andrzej Trzaskowski, 1965–66)

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