Under the leadership of teacher G.A. Baxter, Fort Worth's I.M. Terrell High School, the city's first black high school during segregation, produced some of the most influential musicians of the mid-twentieth century including free jazz progenitor Ornette Coleman, World Saxophone Quartet founder Julius Hemphill, "yakety sax" innovator King Curtis, and guitar giant Cornell Dupree.
On New Year's Eve at our house, we enjoyed listening to the guitar work of Cornell Dupree, who played with King Curtis and the Kingpins, the band that opened for the Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1966 and backed Aretha Franklin on Aretha Live at Fillmore West. Here is a video of King Curtis and the Kingpins playing "Memphis Soul Stew."
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