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Curtis Fuller
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| Birth name | Curtis DuBois Fuller |
| Born | December 15, 1934 (age 78) Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Genres | Jazz, bebop, hard bop |
| Occupations | Trombonist, composer, educator |
| Instruments | Trombone |
| Years active | 1953- |
| Labels | Blue Note, Prestige, Savoy,Impulse!, Epic |
| Associated acts | Art Blakey, Benny Golson,Stanley Turrentine, Miles Davis,Jimmy Smith, Yusef Lateef,Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane,Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Bud Powell, Freddie Hubbard, Gil Evans, Art Farmer, Philly Joe Jones, Kenny Dorham |
| Website | www.allmusic.com/artist/p6541 |
Curtis DuBois Fuller (born December 15, 1934, Detroit) is an American jazz trombonist, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and contributor to many classic jazz recordings.[1]
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Fuller's Jamaican-born parents died when he was young; he was raised in an orphanage. While in Detroit he was a schoolfriend of Paul Chambers andDonald Byrd, and also knew 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 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 bySonny Clark and John Coltrane; Fuller's work on the latter's 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, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan and Joe Henderson (a former room mate atWayne State University in 1956).
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