On This Day: Boscov’s, Reading PA
OTD: March 7th, 1974, Boscov’s department store, Americas largest family owned dept. store, was discounting their entire stock of CTI and Kudu albums. They ran this advert in the Reading Eagle that day. It would…
Category: KUDU
Happy Birthday – Ron Carter
Ron Carter is the a 4x nominated, 2x Grammy Award winner; The Guinness World record acknowledged most recorded bassist of all time; A National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master; a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of…
Happy Birthday – David Matthews
In 1975, Dave was playing Monday nights at the Five Spot cafe in New York, with a 12-piece combo band, when Creed Taylor offered him a position as house arranger for CTI. Dave would work…
Hank Crawford – Born day
Happy born day to Hank Crawford, born December 21st, 1934 and died in 2009. Loads of great music on #kudu Records, some of it never released on cd or digital due to the masters being…
Baddest – Grover Washington, Jr.
Baddest likely took its lead and title from earlier CTI albums, “The Baddest Hubbard” and “The Baddest Turrentine” and was the last in the line. Right at the point where the CTI Records was struggling…