Born: Fort Worth, TX, 1934
Member of: The Curtis Orchestra
Influenced by: Louis Jordan, Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet
Genre: R & B
Biography: King Curtis was the last of the great R&B tenor sax giants. He came to prominence in the mid-'50s as a session musician in ...
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