Curtis Fuller

Curtis DuBois Fuller (born December 15, 1934) is an American

jazz trombonist, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz
Curtis Fuller
Messengers and contributor to many classic jazz recordings.[1]

Contents
Biography
Discography
As leader
As sideman
See also
References
External links

Biography Background information

Birth name Curtis DuBois
Fuller's Jamaican-born parents died when he was young; he was Fuller
raised in an orphanage. While in Detroit he was a school friend of Born December 15, 1934
Paul Chambers and Donald Byrd, and also knew Tommy Flanagan,
Detroit, Michigan,
Thad Jones and Milt Jackson. After army service between 1953 and
U.S.
1955 (when he played in a band with Chambers and brothers
Cannonball and Nat Adderley), Fuller joined the quintet of Yusef Genres Jazz, bebop, hard
Lateef, another Detroit musician. In 1957 the quintet moved to New bop, soul jazz
York, and Fuller recorded his first sessions as a leader for Prestige Occupation(s) Musician,
Records.
composer,
Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records first heard Fuller playing with educator
Miles Davis in the late 1950s, and featured him as a sideman on Instruments Trombone
record dates led by Sonny Clark (Dial "S" for Sonny, Sonny's Crib)
Years active 1953–present
and John Coltrane (Blue Train). Fuller led four dates for Blue Note,
though one of these, an album with Slide Hampton, was not issued Labels Blue Note,
for many years. Other sideman appearances over the next decade Prestige, Savoy,
included work on albums under the leadership of Bud Powell, Impulse!, Epic,
Jimmy Smith, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan and Joe Henderson (a Atlantic
former roommate 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's Jazz Messengers in 1961, staying with Blakey until 1965. In the early 1960s,
Fuller recorded two albums as a leader for Impulse! Records, having also recorded for Savoy Records and
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. Fuller went on to tour with Count Basie and also reunited with Blakey and
Golson.
In 1999, Curtis Fuller was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music.[2]

In 2007 Fuller was named an NEA Jazz Master.

Fuller continues to perform and record, and is a faculty member of the New York State Summer School of
the Arts (NYSSSA) School of Jazz Studies (SJS).[3]

On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Curtis Fuller among hundreds of artists whose
material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.[4]

Discography

As leader
1957: New Trombone (Prestige)
1957: Curtis Fuller with Red Garland (New Jazz) with Red Garland
1957: Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns (Status) with Hampton Hawes
1957: The Opener (Blue Note)
1957: Bone & Bari (Blue Note)
1957: Jazz ...It's Magic! (Regent)
1957: Curtis Fuller Volume 3 (Blue Note)
1958: Two Bones (Blue Note)
1958: Monday Night at Birdland with Hank Mobley, Billy Root and Lee Morgan (Roulette)
1958: Another Monday Night at Birdland with Hank Mobley, Billy Root and Lee Morgan
(Roulette)
1959: Sliding Easy (United Artists)
1959: Blues-ette (Savoy)
1959: The Curtis Fuller Jazztet (Savoy)
1959: Imagination (Savoy)
1960: Images of Curtis Fuller (Savoy)
1960: Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Warwick)
1961: The Magnificent Trombone of Curtis Fuller (Epic)
1961: South American Cookin' (Epic)
1961: Soul Trombone (Impulse!)
1962: Cabin in the Sky (Impulse!)
1971: Crankin' (Mainstream)
1972: Smokin' (Mainstream)
1978: Four on the Outside (Timeless)
1978: Fire and Filigree (Bee Hive)
1979: Giant Bones '80 (Sonet) with Kai Winding
1980: Giant Bones at Nice (Ahead) with Kai Winding
1982: Curtis Fuller Meets Roma Jazz Trio (Timeless)
1993: Blues-ette Part II (Savoy)
2003: Up Jumped Spring (Delmark)
2003: Keep It Simple (Savant)
2010: I Will Tell Her (Capri)
 2011: The Story of Cathy and Me (Challenge)
2012: Down Home (Capri)

As sideman

With Ahmed Abdul-Malik

East Meets West (RCA Victor, 1960)

With Dave Bailey

One Foot in the Gutter (Epic, 1960)

Gettin' Into Somethin' (Epic, 1961)
Bash! (Jazzline, 1961)

With Count Basie

Basie Big Band (Pablo, 1975)

Fun Time (album) (Pablo, 1975)
I Told You So (Pablo, 1976)
Prime Time (Pablo, 1977)

With Walter Bishop Jr.

Cubicle (Muse, 1978)

With Art Blakey

Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!! (Impulse!, 1961)

Buhaina's Delight (Blue Note, 1961)
Mosaic (Blue Note, 1961)
Caravan (Riverside, 1962)
Three Blind Mice (Blue Note, 1962)
Ugetsu (Riverside, 1963)
Free For All (Blue Note, 1964)
Kyoto (Riverside, 1964)
Indestructible (Blue Note, 1964)
Golden Boy (Colpix, 1964)
'S Make It (Limelight, 1964)
In My Prime Vol. 1 (Timeless, 1977)
In My Prime Vol. 2 (Timeless, 1977)
Live Messengers (Blue Note, 1978)
Pisces (Blue Note, 1979)

With Bob Brookmeyer

Jazz Is a Kick (Mercury, 1960)

With Paul Chambers

 1st Bassman (Vee Jay, 1960)

With John Coltrane

Blue Train (Blue Note, 1958)

With Sonny Clark

Dial "S" for Sonny (Blue Note, 1957)

Sonny's Crib (Blue Note, 1958)

With Buddy DeFranco

Blues Bag (Vee Jay, 1964)

With Lou Donaldson

Lou Takes Off (Blue Note, 1958)

With Kenny Dorham

This Is the Moment! (Riverside, 1958)

With Gil Evans

Great Jazz Standards (World Pacific, 1959)

With Art Farmer

Brass Shout (United Artists, 1959)

With Tommy Flanagan

Trio and Sextet (Onyx, 1973)

With Dizzy Gillespie

The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band (MPS, 1968)

With Benny Golson

The Other Side of Benny Golson (Riverside, 1958)

Gone with Golson (New Jazz, 1959)
Groovin' with Golson (New Jazz, 1959)
Gettin' with It (New Jazz, 1959)
Meet the Jazztet (Argo, 1960) – with Art Farmer
Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Argo, 1961)
Pop + Jazz = Swing (Audio Fidelity, 1961)
California Message (Baystate, 1981)
One More Mem'ry (Baystate, 1982)
Voices All (Eastworld, 1982) – with Art Farmer
Moment to Moment (Soul Note, 1983) – with Art Farmer as The Jazztet
 Nostalgia (Baystate, 1983) – with Art Farmer as The New Jazztet
Back to the City (Contemporary, 1986) – with Art Farmer as The Jazztet
Real Time (Contemporary, 1986 [1988]) – with Art Farmer as The Jazztet
Domingo (Dreyfus, 1992)
I Remember Miles (Alfa Jazz, 1993)
One Day, Forever (Arkadia Jazz, 2001)

With Slide Hampton

World of Trombones (West 54, 1979)

With Wilbur Harden

Jazz Way Out (Savoy, 1958)

With Hampton Hawes

Baritones and French Horns (Prestige, 1957)

With Albert Heath

Kwanza (The First) (Muse, 1973)

With Jimmy Heath

The Thumper (Riverside, 1959)

Love and Understanding (Muse, 1973)
The Time and the Place (Landmark, 1974 [1994])

With Joe Henderson

Mode for Joe (Blue Note, 1966)

In Pursuit of Blackness (Milestone, 1971)

With Freddie Hubbard

The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (Impulse!, 1962)

The Body & the Soul (Impulse!, 1963)

With John Jenkins

Jazz Eyes (Regent, 1957) with Donald Byrd

With Philly Joe Jones

Drums Around the World (Riverside, 1959)

Together! (Atlantic, 1961) with Elvin Jones

With Quincy Jones

I Dig Dancers (Mercury, 1960)

Newport '61 (Mercury, 1961)
 I/We Had a Ball (Limelight, 1965)
Quincy Plays for Pussycats (Mercury, 1959-65 [1965])

With Clifford Jordan

Cliff Jordan (Blue Note, 1957)

With Yusef Lateef

Jazz for the Thinker (Savoy, 1957)

Stable Mates (Savoy, 1957)
Jazz Mood (Savoy, 1957)
Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef (Verve, 1957)
The Centaur and the Phoenix (Roulette, 1960)

With Abbey Lincoln

It's Magic (Riverside, 1958)

With Mike Longo

The Awakening (Mainstream, 1972)

With Machito

With Flute to Boot (Roulette, 1959)

With Gary McFarland

Today (Skye, 1970)

With Jackie McLean

Makin' the Changes (New Jazz, 1960)

A Long Drink of the Blues (New Jazz, 1961)

With Blue Mitchell

Big 6 (Riverside, 1958)

Blue Soul (Riverside, 1959)

With Hank Mobley

A Caddy for Daddy (Blue Note, 1967)

With Lee Morgan

City Lights (Blue Note, 1957)

Tom Cat (Blue Note, 1964)

With David "Fathead" Newman

Song for the New Man (HighNote, 2004)

 Diamondhead (HighNote, 1988)

With Houston Person

Blue Odyssey (Prestige, 1968)

Very PERSONal (Muse, 1980)

With Bud Powell

Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 3) (Blue Note, 1957)

With Paul Quinichette

On the Sunny Side (Prestige, 1957)

With Woody Shaw

Woody III (Columbia, 1979)

For Sure! (Columbia, 1979)

With Wayne Shorter

Schizophrenia (Blue Note, 1969)

With Jimmy Smith

House Party (Blue Note, 1958)

The Sermon! (Blue Note, 1959)

With the Timeless All Stars

It's Timeless (Timeless, 1982)

Timeless Heart (Timeless, 1983)
Essence (Delos, 1986)

With Charles Tolliver

Music Inc. (Strata-East, 1971)

With Stanley Turrentine

In Memory of (Blue Note, 1964)

Mr. Natural (Blue Note, 1964)
The Sugar Man (CTI, 1971)

With Cedar Walton

Eastern Rebellion 3 (Timeless, 1980)

Eastern Rebellion 4 (Timeless, 1983)
Cedar's Blues (Red, 1985)

With Frank Wess

 Opus de Blues (Savoy, 1959 [1984])

With Larry Willis

A Tribute to Someone (AudioQuest, 1994)

With Phil Woods

Rights of Swing (Candid, 1961)

See also
Soul jazz
Blues
Bebop

References
1. "Curtis Fuller Biography" (https://www.allmusic.com/artist/curtis-fuller-mn0000139566/biograph
y). AllMusic. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
2. "Curtis Fuller" (https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/curtis-fuller). Arts.gov. Retrieved January 21,
2020.
3. NYSSSA SJS Artistic Staff (http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/nysssa/SJS/faculty.html) Archived (htt
ps://web.archive.org/web/20100704152827/http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/nysssa/SJS/faculty.ht
ml) 2010-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
4. Rosen, Jody (June 25, 2019). "Here Are Hundreds More Artists Whose Tapes Were Destroyed
in the UMG Fire" (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/magazine/universal-music-fire-bands-li
st-umg.html). The New York Times. Retrieved June 28, 2019.

External links
WICN Worcester Jazz & Folk Radio Interview (http://www.jazzhistorydatabase.com/collections/
zupan-audio.html?zoom_highlight=curtis+fuller)
New England Jazz History Database - Curtis Fuller Search (http://www.jazzhistorydatabase.co
m/search/search.php?zoom_query=curtis+fuller)

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