Curtis 'King Curtis' Ousley was already a well-respected Jazz tenor saxophonist in 1952 when he moved to New York, to concentrate on doing session work for the growing Pop and R&B markets. Over the ...

The great saxophonist Curtis Ousley was an essential part of classic recordings by everyone from The Coasters and Buddy Holly to Aretha Franklin and John Lennon, but he also made some cool ...

King Curtis played sax on a Buddy Holly song, opened for the Beatles in New York and played on John Lennon’s Imagine album. After his 1971 death from a stabbing in front of his Upper West Side ...