CURTIS FULLER

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Curtis DuBois Fuller (December 15, 1932 – May 8, 2021) was an American jazz trombonist. He was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and contributed to many classic jazz recordings.

Fuller was born in Detroit on December 15, 1932. His father had emigrated from Jamaica and worked in a Ford automobile factory, but he died from tuberculosis before his son was born. His mother, who had moved north from Atlanta, died when he was 9. He spent several years in an orphanage run by Jesuits. He developed a passion for jazz after one of the nuns there brought him to see Illinois Jacquet and his band perform, with J. J. Johnson on trombone.

Fuller attended a public school in his hometown, together with Paul Chambers, Donald Byrd, Tommy Flanagan, Thad Jones, and Milt Jackson. There, he took up the trombone when he was sixteen, after attempting the violin and
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CURTIS FULLER New Trombone album cover 3.83 | 3 ratings
New Trombone
Hard Bop 1957
CURTIS FULLER Bone & Bari album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Bone & Bari
Hard Bop 1957
CURTIS FULLER The Opener album cover 3.25 | 2 ratings
The Opener
Hard Bop 1957
CURTIS FULLER Jazz...It's Magic! album cover 4.00 | 2 ratings
Jazz...It's Magic!
Hard Bop 1958
CURTIS FULLER BLUES ette album cover 3.25 | 2 ratings
BLUES ette
Hard Bop 1959
CURTIS FULLER Sliding Easy album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Sliding Easy
Hard Bop 1959
CURTIS FULLER Imagination album cover 4.50 | 2 ratings
Imagination
Hard Bop 1960
CURTIS FULLER Curtis Fuller Vol.3 album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Curtis Fuller Vol.3
Hard Bop 1960
CURTIS FULLER South American Cookin' album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
South American Cookin'
Hard Bop 1961
CURTIS FULLER Boss of the Soul - Stream Trombone album cover 5.00 | 1 ratings
Boss of the Soul - Stream Trombone
Hard Bop 1961
CURTIS FULLER The Magnificent Trombone of Curtis Fuller album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Magnificent Trombone of Curtis Fuller
Hard Bop 1961
CURTIS FULLER Curtis Fuller With Red Garland album cover 3.75 | 2 ratings
Curtis Fuller With Red Garland
Hard Bop 1962
CURTIS FULLER Cabin In The Sky album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Cabin In The Sky
Hard Bop 1962
CURTIS FULLER Curtis Fuller And The Jazz Ambassadors : Jazz Conference Abroad (aka Jazz Conference In Europe) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Curtis Fuller And The Jazz Ambassadors : Jazz Conference Abroad (aka Jazz Conference In Europe)
Hard Bop 1962
CURTIS FULLER Images of Curtis Fuller album cover 3.25 | 2 ratings
Images of Curtis Fuller
Hard Bop 1962
CURTIS FULLER Soul Trombone And The Jazz Clan album cover 5.00 | 1 ratings
Soul Trombone And The Jazz Clan
Hard Bop 1962
CURTIS FULLER Smokin' album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Smokin'
Soul Jazz 1972
CURTIS FULLER Crankin´ album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Crankin´
Hard Bop 1973
CURTIS FULLER Four on the Outside album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Four on the Outside
Hard Bop 1978
CURTIS FULLER Fire And Filigree album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Fire And Filigree
Hard Bop 1979
CURTIS FULLER Two Bones album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Two Bones
Hard Bop 1980
CURTIS FULLER Meets Roma Jazz Trio album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Meets Roma Jazz Trio
Hard Bop 1987
CURTIS FULLER Curtis Fuller's Quintet : Blues-ette Vol. 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Curtis Fuller's Quintet : Blues-ette Vol. 2
Hard Bop 1992
CURTIS FULLER The Curtis Fuller Sextette : Imagination Vol. 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Curtis Fuller Sextette : Imagination Vol. 2
Hard Bop 1992
CURTIS FULLER Blues Ette Part II album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Blues Ette Part II
Hard Bop 1993
CURTIS FULLER Up Jumped Spring album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Up Jumped Spring
Hard Bop 2004
CURTIS FULLER Keep It Simple album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Keep It Simple
Hard Bop 2005
CURTIS FULLER The Story Of Cathy & Me album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Story Of Cathy & Me
Hard Bop 2011
CURTIS FULLER Down Home album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Down Home
Hard Bop 2012
CURTIS FULLER In New Orleans album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
In New Orleans
Hard Bop 2018

CURTIS FULLER EPs & splits

CURTIS FULLER The Trombone Album (with J.J. Johnson, Frank Rosolino, Billy Ver Planck , Frank Wess) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Trombone Album (with J.J. Johnson, Frank Rosolino, Billy Ver Planck , Frank Wess)
Hard Bop 1980

CURTIS FULLER live albums

CURTIS FULLER Together in Monaco album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Together in Monaco
Hard Bop 1996
CURTIS FULLER Curtis Fuller, The Peter Beets Quartet : Live At The Anova Jazz Festival Amersfoort album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Curtis Fuller, The Peter Beets Quartet : Live At The Anova Jazz Festival Amersfoort
Hard Bop 1999
CURTIS FULLER I Will Tell Her album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
I Will Tell Her
Hard Bop 2010

CURTIS FULLER demos, promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs)

CURTIS FULLER re-issues & compilations

CURTIS FULLER Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes With French Horns album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes With French Horns
Hard Bop 1965
CURTIS FULLER The Curtis Fuller Jazztet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Curtis Fuller Jazztet
Hard Bop 1973
CURTIS FULLER All-Star Sextets album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
All-Star Sextets
Hard Bop 1979
CURTIS FULLER The Complete Blue Note UA Curtis Fuller Sessions album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Complete Blue Note UA Curtis Fuller Sessions
Hard Bop 1996
CURTIS FULLER South American Cookin' / The Magnificent Trombone Of Curtis Fuller album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
South American Cookin' / The Magnificent Trombone Of Curtis Fuller
Hard Bop 2001
CURTIS FULLER Soul Trombone / Cabin In The Sky album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Soul Trombone / Cabin In The Sky
Hard Bop 2011
CURTIS FULLER New Date album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
New Date
Hard Bop 2014

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CURTIS FULLER Smokin'

Album · 1972 · Soul Jazz
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Although the line-up to this album is a great line-up (featuring hardboppers Cedar Walton and Billy Higgins amongst others), the aim of this album is mainstream funk.

It is a pleasant album, with some great solos, some nice electric guitar by Ted Dunbar, some funky and swinging grooves by Higgins, but it lacks a certain something.

Fuller tries hard here to make a mainstream-record, even the label is called mainstream, and the compositions in fact are not that bad, but somehow I don't like the overuse of the electric piano (courtesy of Cedar Walton) on this album. Also the electric bass is used on one to many songs.

Especially the first song drags on for too long, without really going anywhere. Fuller had made so much better records, as a leader or with the Jazztet / Jazz Messengers.

I do like the solos: trumpet by Bill Hardman, trombone, saxes by Jimmy Heath and guitar by Ted Dunbar. The songs on the B-side are more hardboppish, but are mostly ruined by the electric bass. The purist jazz-song is Stella By Starlight with acoustic bass and acoustic piano, and some magnificent soloing by Fuller. A real treat!

As a jazzfunk album it is okay, somewhat reminescent of what Nucleus was putting out these days. But there are already so many of these jazzrock/softfunk albums, that it almost sounds too easylistening for me.

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