Curtis Amy: Tippin’ On Through (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 1LP ETJS-10 just six months after The

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Curtis Amy: Tippin’ On Through (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 1LP ETJS-10 just six months after TheBlue Note, 1962 A powerful wind blew through The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, California on July 29, 1962 as saxophonist Curtis Amy brought a stacked sextet into the legendary venue to record his live album Tippin On Through for Pacific Jazz. The brawny Texas tenor had already recorded his hard charging date Groovin Blue and would make his masterpiece Katanga! the following year. Here he surrounds himself with a dynamic unit featuring Roy Brewster on