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For|the American football player|Curtis Fuller (American football)Infobox musical artist| name = Curtis Fuller| image = Curtis Fuller.jpg| caption =| image_size = 320| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name = Curtis DuBois Fuller| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1934|12|15| death_date =| origin = Detroit , United States | instrument = Trombone | genre = Jazz , Hard Bop | occupation = Trombonist , Performer | years_active =| label = Blue Note, Prestige, Savoy, Impulse!| associated_acts =| website =| current_members =| past_members =| notable_instruments = Curtis DuBois Fuller (born December 15, 1934, Detroit ) is an United States of America|American jazz trombone|trombonist , known as a member of Art Blakey 's Jazz Messengers and contributor to many classic jazz recordings.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p6541|pure_url=yes Allmusic
Biography
Fuller's Jamaica n-born parents died when he was young; he was raised in an orphanage. While in Detroit he was a schoolfriend of Paul Chambers and Donald Byrd , and also knew Tommy Flanagan (musician)|Tommy Flanagan , Thad Jones and Milt Jackson . After army service between 1953 and 1955 (when he played in a band with Chambers and brothers Cannonball Adderley|Cannonball and Nat Adderley ), Fuller joined the quintet of Yusef Lateef , another Detroit musician. In 1957 the quintet moved to New York , and Fuller recorded his first sessions as a leader for Prestige Records .
Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records first heard him playing with Miles Davis in the late 1950s, and featured him as a sideman on record dates led by Sonny Clark and John Coltrane ; Fuller's work on the latter's Blue Train (album)|Blue Train album is probably his best known recorded performance. Fuller led four dates for Blue Note, though one of these, an album with Slide Hampton , was not issued for many years. Other sideman appearances over the next decade included work on albums under the leadership of Bud Powell , Jimmy Smith (musician)|Jimmy Smith , Wayne Shorter , Lee Morgan and Joe Henderson (a former room mate at Wayne State University in 1956).
Fuller was also the first trombonist to be a member of the Art Farmer - Benny Golson Jazztet, later becoming the sixth man in Art Blakey|Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1961, staying with Blakey until 1965. In the early 1960s, he recorded two albums as a leader for Impulse& #33; Records , having also recorded for Savoy|Savoy Records and Epic Records|Epic after his obligations to Blue Note had ended. In the late 1960s, he was part of Dizzy Gillespie 's band, that also featured Foster Elliott. He went on to tour with Count Basie and also reunited with Blakey and Golson.
Fuller continues to perform and record, and is currently a faculty member of the New York State Summer School of the Arts (NYSSSA) School of Jazz Studies (SJS). http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/nysssa/SJS/faculty.html NYSSSA SJS Artistic Staff
On January 13, 2010, Curtis' wife, Catherine Rose Driscoll Fuller died.
1962: Cabin in the Sky (album)|Cabin in the Sky ( Impulse& #33; Records )
1978: Four on the Outside ( Timeless Records ) http://www.jazzreview.com/cdreview.cfm? ID=3860
1978: Fire And Filigree ( Bee Hive Records ) with Sam Jones, Freddie Waits , Walter Bishop, Jr. , Sal Nistico
1982: Curtis Fuller Meets Roma Jazz Trio ( Timeless Records )
1993: Blues-Ette 2
2004: Up Jumped Spring
2005: Keep It Simple
2010: I Will Tell Her
2011: The Story of Cathy and Me ( Challenge Records (1994)|Challenge Records ) with Lester Walker, Daniel V Bauerkemper Sr., Akeem Marable, Heny Conerway III, Clarence Levy, Nick Rosen, Kenny Banks Jr, Brandy Brewer, Kevin Smith, Tia Michelle Rouse
Mr. Natural (Stanley Turrentine album)|Mr. Natural
The Sugar Man
With Phil Woods
Rights Of Swing
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External links
http://www.jazzhistorydatabase.com/collections/zupan-audio.html? zoom_highlight=curtis+fuller WICN Worcester Jazz & Folk Radio Interview
http://www.jazzhistorydatabase.com/search/search.php? zoom_query=curtis+fuller New England Jazz History Database - Curtis Fuller Search
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