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King Curtis and The Noble Knights - Soul Twist (1962) Curtis Ousley (King Curtis) from: "Soul Twist" / "Twisting Time" (Single) "Soul Twist with King Curtis" (LP)

"Soul Twistin' with The King" (2017 Jasmine Records Compilation) "Soul Twist: The Complete Enjoy Sessions" (1996 Charly Records Compilation)

R&B | Instrumental

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Personnel: King Curtis: Tenor Saxophone Ernie Hayes: Organ Paul Griffin: Piano Billy Butler: Guitar Buddy Lucas: Harmonica Jimmy Lewis: Bass Ray Lucas: Drums

Produced by Bobby Robinson / Danny Robinson

Recorded: @ The Bell Sound Studios (?) in New York City, New York USA 1962

Released: February, 1962

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Everlast Records (1965 Re-release)

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Tuesday 2/7/23 8am ET: Feature Artist - King Curtis

Curtis Ousley (born Curtis Montgomery; February 7, 1934 – August 13, 1971), who performed under the stage name King Curtis, was an American saxophonist known for rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, blues, funk and soul jazz. Variously a bandleader, band member, and session musician, he was also a musical director and record producer. Adept at tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, he played riffs…

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Black Music Sunday: Soul music doesn't always need a singer. Enjoy these hit R&B instrumentals

I was listening to a rhythm and blues playlist the other day and talking with a friend while doing so. We got into a discussion of our favorite “soul” artists. While bickering about it, an instrumental popped up—and it hit me that both of us were talking about singers only. We had ignored some great tunes where there was nary a vocalist to be found.

This would not have happened had we been talking about jazz; when we listen to John Coltrane or Miles Davis, we don’t automatically think of lyrics and vocals no matter how lyrical the instrumentation is.

Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music. With over 140 stories (and counting) covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack, I hope you’ll find some familiar tunes and perhaps an introduction to something new.

I decided to jump into my audio time machine and go back and listen to some R&B instrumentals that made it onto the Billboard charts in the late ‘50s and through the ‘60s. As always, this story is not going to cover all of them, nor is it going to go back to whatever was the first one. The definition of what is actually R&B is oft-debated—a discussion covering early race records, some blues, and some jazz. So here’s a disclaimer: I’m just going to serve up instrumental hits I remember. 

The first tune that popped into my head was one that I heard my older cousins in Philly play and dance to. It was number one on the Billboard R&B charts in November 1958.  “Topsy Part Two” by Cozy Cole, who, if you remember him, had roots embedded firmly in jazz—roots that DJ and music historian arwulf arwulf details in his biography of Cole at AllMusic. 

Give a listen to his chart-topping drum solo.

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Take a look at “Topsy” being celebrated and danced to on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand(the cameras always manage to not focus on the few Black kids who were dancing there, but that’s a story for another day).

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The next group and tune on my list is Booker T. and the MG’s’ “Green Onions.” Timothy Kevin Perry wrote the group’s bio at Musician Guide.

As YouTuber SmurfStools Oldies Music Time Machine notes beneath this live performance of “Green Onions”:

This performance is from April 1967, as part of the Stax/Volt Revue in Norway.

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Related:  Black Music Sunday: Remembering when there were 'Stax' of soul musicians in Memphis

Saxophonist “King” Curtis was born Curtis Ousley in February 1934, in Fort Worth. He was an essential backup musician for many years and finally made a breakthrough and found commercial success in the ‘60s before being tragically stabbed to death in front of his New York City brownstone in August 1971. As Ed Decker at Musician’s Guide wrote:

Here’s “Soul Serenade.” 

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That was so nice, I gotta play it twice!  Here’s Curtis blowing “Soul Serenade,” from his 1971 album “Live at Filmore West.’ 

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Here’s a live performance of King Curtis & The Kingpins performing “Memphis Soul Stew.” If you can sit still watching it, you got a “hole in yo’ soul.”  

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The next 1960s piece was featured here in September 2022, in “Black Music Sunday: Ramsey Lewis made all of us part of 'the in crowd,'” on the occasion of Ramsey Lewis joining the ancestors last year.  

As I wrote then, about the Ramsey Lewis Trio’s big hit:

Here’s a live version from 1965:

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The next instrumentalist, Jimmy Castor had a birthday this week; Jan. 23, 1940; he passed just a week before his 72nd birthday, on Jan. 16, 2012.

Douglas Martin wrote Castor’s obituary for The New York Times:

Castor sang, played saxophone, bongos, and other percussion instruments, in addition to composing and writing—however other than the “shout-out” to Leroy that his momma is calling him, the hit “Hey Leroy, Your Mama’s Calling’ You” is an instrumental.

Here he is live on American Bandstand in 1967, moving from instrument to instrument.

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The last tune for our story today is “Soulful Strut,” by Young-Holt Unlimited, which started out as a song called “Am I the Same Girl?” Elder Young and Isaac Holt began as the other two parts of The Ramsey Lewis Trio, as detailed in Steve Krakow’s feature for the Chicago Readeron Young and Holt, which notes that “Young-Holt Unlimited were more than Ramsey Lewis’s rhythm section.”  

In 1968, Young-Holt Unlimited released the album Soulful Strut. The title tune, which had started out as “Am I the Same Girl?” with Barbara Acklin singing vocals, saw her vocals wiped off and was renamed “Soulful Strut.”

As Reader’s Krakow notes, “The grooving single went gold in less than three months, selling more than 1 million copies, and climbed to number three on the Hot 100.”

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Strut on with me into the comments for even more soulful instrumentals—and please post your favorites.

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John Lennon: Imagine

top: Apple Records 1C 062-04 914, 1971

2nd: Apple Records SW 3379, 2008

Originally released: October 8, 1971

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Performed by: Nicole Clonch and Sean McKeever

Number: “Soul Serenade”/”Moves Like Jagger” 

Improvised by: Nicole Clonch and Sean McKeever

Style: West Coast Swing

From: Phoenix 4th of July 2018

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Daily News May of '82

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King Curtis - Sugar Foot (Curtis Ousley-David Hood)

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Today we remember the passing of King Curtis who Died: August 13, 1971 at Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital in New York City

Curtis Ousley, who performed under the stage name King Curtis, was an American saxophonist known for rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, blues, funk and soul jazz. Variously a bandleader, band member, and session musician, he was also a musical director and record producer. Adept at tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, he played riffs and solos on such hit singles as "Respect" by Aretha Franklin, and "Yakety Yak" by The Coasters (the latter of which later became the inspiration for Boots Randolph's "Yakety Sax") and his own "Memphis Soul Stew"

Curtis started playing saxophone at the age of twelve in the Fort Worth area. He took interest in many musical genres including jazz, rhythm and blues, and popular music. As a student pursuing music, he turned down college scholarships in order to join the Lionel Hampton Band. During his time with Hampton, he was able to write and arrange music and learn guitar. In 1952 Curtis decided to move to New York and became a session musician, recording for such labels as Prestige, Enjoy, Capitol, and Atco. He recorded with Nat Adderley, Wynton Kelly, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings and Andy Williams.

Stylistically, Curtis took inspiration from saxophonists Lester Young, Louis Jordan, Illinois Jacquet, Earl Bostic, and Gene Ammons. Known for his syncopated and percussive style, he was both versatile and powerful as a musician. He put together a group during his time as a session musician that included Richard Tee, Cornell Dupree, Jerry Jemmott, and Bernard Purdie.

Curtis was stabbed on August 13, 1971, during an argument with a pair of drug dealers he discovered on the steps outside his Manhattan apartment. Curtis was attempting to carry an air conditioner into his apartment when Juan Montanez refused to move from the entrance. A fight ensued and Montanez stabbed Curtis. Curtis was transferred to Roosevelt Hospital, where he died. In March 1972, Montanez had his charge reduced from second degree murder to second degree manslaughter in exchange for pleading guilty. He was released on December 5, 1977 from the Wallkill Correctional Facility for good behavior.

On the day of Curtis's funeral Atlantic Records closed their offices. Jesse Jackson administered the service and as the mourners filed in, Curtis's band, the Kingpins, played "Soul Serenade". Among those attending were Ousley's immediate family, including sister Josephine Ousley Allen, other family members, Aretha Franklin, Cissy Houston, Brook Benton and Duane Allman. Franklin sang the closing spiritual "Never Grow Old" and Stevie Wonder performed "Abraham, Martin and John and now King Curtis". Allman went on to honor Curtis by interleaving a medley of "Soul Serenade" into the band's rendition of "You Don't Love Me", first in a show at the Academy of Music on East 14th Street in Manhattan on August 15, and later during a live in-studio recording at A&R Studios in Manhattan on August 26, recorded for posterity and released on LP as part of the band's Dreams compilation in 1989.

Curtis was buried in a red granite-fronted wall crypt in the 'West Gallery of Forsythia Court' mausoleum at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Farmingdale, New York, the same cemetery where Count Basie and John Coltrane are buried

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Curtis Ousley Obituary - Death | Curtis Ousley Has Died

Curtis Ousley Death - Dead,  Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death, Passed Away: On March 23, 2021, InsideEko Media learned about the death of Curtis Ousley through social media publications made on Twitter. Click to read and leave a tribute.

Curtis Ousley Death – Dead,  Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death, Passed Away: On March 23, 2021, InsideEko Media learned about the death of Curtis Ousley through social media publications made on Twitter. InsideEko is yet to confirm Curtis Ousley’s cause of death as no health issues, accident or other causes of death have been learned to be associated with the passing. This death has caused a lot…

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John Lennon and King Curtis, recording tracks for the album Imagine, 1971.

“King Curtis was a dynamic tenor sax player whose work graced countless rock and roll and R&B records.  He recorded for Atlantic Records among other companies.   Born Curtis Ousley in Fort Worth, Texas, his trademark was a honking Texas tenor sound inspired by his main influences Illinois Jacquet, Earl Bostic, Arnett Cobb albeit with a rock and roll edge. He moved to New York in 1952 and played with Lionel Hampton’s and Horace Silver’s jazz groups.  Curtis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.”-- Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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King Curtis

Happy birthday Curtis Ousley, aka King Curtis!

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USA: Diane Marino-Soul Serenade: The Gloria Lynne Project(2018)

Dynamic Jazz vocalist Diane Marino presents an album of rarely heard and totally refreshing songs made popular by the great Jazz/Soul Jazz vocalist Gloria Lynne. An eclectic group of creative arrangements and orchestrations by Pianist/Arranger Brad Cole along with stellar musical performances celebrate this wonderful and memorable material. 1. Some ware In The Night 4:35 Billy May / Milton Raskin 2. Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You 4:59 Jack Segal / Marvin Fischer / Fred Fischer 3. Soul Serenade 4:34 Curtis Ousley / Luther Dixon 4. For You 3:30 Joe Burke /Al Dubin 5. Blue Gardenia 5:07 Bob Russell / Lester Lee 6. The Jazz In You 5:31 Chris Towns / Luther Dixon 7. Happy Shoes 4:33 Bobby Scott / Richard Alhert 8. Sweet Pumpkin 3:47 Dr. Ronnell Bright 9. Out Of This World 4:05 Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer 10. Speaking Of Happiness 3:52 Jimmy Radcliffe / Buddy Scott 11. That s No Joke 4:08 Joe Bailey 12. He Needs Me 4:57 Arthur Hamilton 13. Let s Taken an Old Fashioned Walk 3:27 Irving Berlin 14. Serenade In Blue 6:14 Harry Warren / Mack Gordon

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Saturday 6pm ET: Feature Artist - King Curtis

Saturday 6pm ET: Feature Artist – King Curtis

Curtis Ousley (born Curtis Montgomery; February 7, 1934 – August 13, 1971), who performed under the stage name King Curtis, was an American saxophonist known for rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, blues, funk and soul jazz. Variously a bandleader, band member, and session musician, he was also a musical director and record producer. Adept at tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, he played riffs…

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King Curtis 8/1971

August 13, 1971 – King Curtis (The Kingpins) was born Curtis Ousley on February 7, 1934. He was adopted and brought up in Fort Worth where he started playing the saxophone locally when he was 12.

He turned down college scholarships in order to join the Lionel Hampton Band and in 1952 moved to New York to become a session musician, recording for such labels as Prestige, Enjoy, Capitol and Atco.

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Bryan Rhoads, D4, provides periodontal care to Howard Branch of Brandon while Catherine Gatewood, dental hygienist, assists. Clinical training is an important part of preparing students to practice after graduation.

Watching second-year dental students walk across the stage to receive white coats – many of whom have family members in the profession – makes it easy to believe U.S. News and World Report is correct in placing dentistry as No. 1 on its “100 Best Jobs of 2017” list.

The list is made up of careers with the highest opportunity for growth in the coming years as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The jobs were given a score based on measurements of median salary, employment rate, 10-year growth volume, 10-year growth percentage, future job prospects, stress level and work-life balance. After analysis, dentistry scored the top ranking.

The University of Mississippi School of Dentistry’s seventeenth annual white coat ceremony took place Jan. 27 in the UMMC Conference Center at the Jackson Medical Mall Thad Cochran Center. Thirty-seven students received white coats to signify their transition from the classroom to clinic-based learning. Nine of those students are following in the footsteps of a mother, father, sister, brother or cousin.

In her role as assistant dean for student affairs, Dr. Wilhelmina O’Reilly organizes milestone events for students as they progress through their training. She counts herself among the ranks of those for whom dentistry is a family affair: Her father was a dentist and her husband is a retired oral surgeon.

“My sister and I both would work in [our father’s] office,” O’Reilly said. “She wanted to be a lawyer, but I liked what he did. I got to see quite a bit working in his office, and I said, ‘I think I like this.’”

O’Reilly was accepted into what would have been the first class at the School of Dentistry, but when the opening of the school was delayed, she completed her studies at Howard University with a pediatrics specialty. She said the lifestyle the profession allows is what makes dentistry an attractive career.

“You can still have a life and a family,” she said. “When I was in private practice, I could drop my daughter at school in the morning and pick her up when she got out of school. I could take her on to ballet or wherever she had to go.”

Mary Caskey Ousley was coated by her father, Dr. Charles Caskey, associate professor of dentistry in the Department of Periodontics and Preventive Sciences. She knew she wanted to become a dentist after traveling with her father on a mission trip to Saltillo, Mexico, where he treated people without regular access to care.

“I got to assist and see him doing dentistry close up on those trips,” Mary said. “I think my dad has always had a passion for what he does. He loves it through and through, and he misses dentistry when he isn’t doing it. He wants to practice until he is unable to do so anymore.

“I just wanted a career that I would enjoy and get the same satisfaction from. When you love what you do, it doesn’t feel like work.”

Mary is not the first of the four Caskey siblings to follow in her father’s career footsteps. Her brother, Dr. Curtis Caskey, is a 2010 graduate of the School of Dentistry. He went on to finish a periodontic residency at Louisiana State University, where he met his wife, a general dentistry practitioner.

Curtis joined his father’s practice, Mississippi Periodontics and Implants in Jackson, and took over when his father joined the School of Dentistry as a full-time faculty member. Curtis also works as faculty on a part-time basis, as his father did when he and his sister were growing up.

“I have a brother who is a physician,” Curtis said. “That lifestyle didn’t really appeal to me as much as dentistry. Hanging around my brother, a surgeon, I saw that his lifestyle was horrible. Every day he would be at the hospital before 5 a.m. He wouldn’t leave until after 8 p.m. and would be on call every other weekend. I have a sister who is a teacher, and I think she works more than all of us.”

Charles said he and his wife never counseled their children on what to be when they grew up.

“I went to Saltillo on mission trips for 17 years in a row, and they went with me,” he said. “That perhaps influenced them. It’s hands-on and you can do something directly for your fellow man that day.”

He said many of the students who apply for dental school were introduced to the profession through traveling with parents on dental mission trips.

“Working on the admissions committee, we do see a lot of good applicants with family in dentistry,” he said. “I think they understand the profession and want to participate. They look at it as a way to give back to the community with a good financial package and the freedom to be your own boss.”

Meredith Lucas crossed the stage to receive her white coat from both of her parents, Dr. Melinda Lucas and Dr. Alan Lucas of Oak Grove Family Dentistry in Hattiesburg. The couple met while attending the School of Dentistry.

When in high school, Meredith was interested in nursing and dermatology. That changed after a job shadowing assignment. She shadowed her parents out of convenience, but once there, she said “it kind of sparked something.”

In her sophomore year in college, Meredith went to Honduras with her father on a mission trip. “I was his assistant for the dental clinic, and that was what sold it,” she said.

Growing up in a dental family also afforded her the opportunity to travel around the world. She’s traveled to Italy, France, London and Scotland. One of her most memorable trips was to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro.

“That was my mom’s dream, and I was very lucky to go,” she said. “We had two weeks. It took us seven days to actually hike it. We summited on New Year’s Day. My birthday is Jan. 2, so I wore a crown on the way back down.”

Alan said his interest in dentistry came from observing his family dentist and orthodontist participate in hobbies outside of work. He enjoys woodworking when he’s not in his office.

“When I was growing up, our general dentist would invite us out to go fishing at his pond, and I liked that,” Alan said. “My orthodontist was building an airplane. I thought that was the coolest thing that he could actually do the dental aspect during the day and go home at night and have a project.”

Meredith’s parents aren’t the only dentists in the family. Following in their footsteps are uncles on both of her mother’s and father’s sides of the family. Her little sister, Elizabeth, is in her first year at the School of Dentistry.

Melinda said she is very proud of both of her daughters for pursuing dentistry.

“I look forward to one day getting to work side-by-side with each other and, hopefully, mentoring them,” she said, admitting that they mentor her. “I ask them questions all the time. ‘What are they saying about this in school?’ I get to pick their brains as well.

“I’m very proud. I hope that they love it as much as I do.”

Dentistry scored an 8 out of 10 in the U.S. News and World Report rankings. Visit the Dentistry Overview to read the full analysis. 

Courtesy of Alana Bowman and the University of Mississippi Medical Center Division of Public Affairs

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