curtis amy dupree bolton katanga size:OS River Styx

River Styx

originally released in 1964

guest singers

genre-busting album

morto…girotondo – I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni (4:48)

curtis amy dupree bolton katanga size:OS River StyxWho are these guys? Thats the usual reaction of anyone fortunate enough to have come across this remarkable (and remarkably rare) session from 1963. The last of six albums saxophonist Curtis Amy recorded for Pacific Jazz in the early 1960s, Katanga! transcends not only the rest but plenty of other recorded jazz from that period as well. Trumpeter Dupree Boltons brilliant playing here is simply breath taking in one of his very few recorded appearances