Ed Curran

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Ed Curran (born October 23, 1940 in New York City ) is an American jazz musician ( alto saxophone , also clarinet , composition ).

Curran sang in the church choir in his youth. After his time in the military, he returned to New York and began studying alto saxophone with Joe Napolean. He played in a Third Stream group that included bassist Alan Silva , as well as with Bill Dixon and the Jazz Composers Guild Orchestra . In the mid-1960s, he organized summer concerts for St. Marks Church in the Bowery as part of the Jazz in the Churchyard series . In 1967 he and his quartet recorded the album Elysa for Savoy Records . On this album, the Ed Curran Quartet consisted of him and the musicians Mark Levine , Bob Pozar and Kyoshi Tokunaga . Curran then gave up music entirely; For several years he has occasionally performed semi-professionally with his wife in the Interpolacion group .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ed Curran. All About Jazz , accessed October 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Ed Curran: Looking Back
  3. ↑ Benjamin I. Young Dixonia: A Bio-Discography of Bill Dixon 1998, p 81 and 366; for a further recording cf. P. 112
personal data
SURNAME Curran, Ed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (alto saxophone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City