Jazz Articles about Curtis Fuller

About Curtis Fuller

Album Review

The trombone can be smoothly seductive, raucous, rasping or cheekily fruity by turn. Curtis Fuller is a master of the instrument, a veteran of six decades of top flight jazz who is still full of creativity as a player and writer. Featuring his regular sextet, Down Home is an absolutely delightful recording--a sophisticated collection of tunes performed with a real sense of joy.Fuller's place in jazz history was assured with his appearance on saxophonist John Coltrane's Blue Train ...

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Curtis Fuller: Down Home

Read "Down Home" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
May 7, 2012

The jazz world of the fifties and sixties was undeniably a golden age, and legendary trombonist Curtis Fuller was one of the era's key voices. Throughout his sixty-year career, Fuller has worked with some of jazz's foundational players: he appears on saxophonist John Coltrane's Blue Train (Blue Note, 1957), he was part of drummer Art Blakey's smoking hot, early sixties Jazz Messengers, plus he worked with trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, saxophonists Hank Mobley and Benny Golson, bassists Paul ...

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Curtis Fuller: The Story of Cathy & Me

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 1, 2012

Registrato in seguito alla scomparsa della moglie Catherine Rose Driscoll, avvenuta il 13 gennaio 2010, questo album non può che rappresentare, conseguentemente, un punto d'arrivo denso di significato nella parabola artistica di Curtis Fuller, trombonista nato a Detroit nel 1934 e noto tra l'altro per aver partecipato, nel 1957, all'incisione del coltraniano Blue Train e per esser stato successivamente membro del Jazztet di Benny Golson (che non a caso firma le note di copertina di questo lavoro). Vi si alternano ...

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Curtis Fuller: The Story Of Cathy & Me

Read "The Story Of Cathy & Me" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
September 16, 2011

Legendary trombonist Curtis Fuller pays heartwarming tribute to his wife, Catherine Rose Driscoll Fuller, on The Story of Cathy & Me, a musical tale of how they met, how they lived and how he now lives without her (she passed away in January, 2010). The album's many soft and intense pieces reflect Fuller's deeply personal memories, and range of emotions from excitement to sadness.With titles like “My Lady's Tears," “Too Late Now," and “Life Was Good, What Went ...

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Curtis Fuller: I Will Tell Her

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 28, 2011

Curtis Fuller è stato uno dei maestri del trombone moderno: il suo contributo a Blue Train è storia, come la partecipazione ai Jazz Messengers di Art Blakey (quando nel gruppo militavano Wayne Shorter e Freddie Hubbard) e al Jazztet di Benny Golson e Art Farmer. Da tempo non gode più di contratti con etichette prestigiose, ma sappiamo quanto sia corta e strabica la memoria di molti produttori, critici e fan. Per fortuna etichette come la Capri Records non dimenticano e ...

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Live Review

Curtis Fuller/Gilbert Castellanos Quintet Live at the Saville Theater

by Robert Bush
October 3, 2010

Curtis Fuller Quintet with Gilbert Castellanos Saville Theater, San Diego City College San Diego, CA September 21, 2010 There was a palpable sense of energy in the air for Tuesday night's concert which sold out well in advance. The chance to see a former band-mate of John Coltrane, (and a legend in his own right), doesn't come along very often--especially in San Diego. At age 75, trombonist Curtis Fuller doesn't seem to be slowing ...

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Album Review

Curtis Fuller: I Will Tell Her

Read "I Will Tell Her" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
July 9, 2010

Legendary trombonist Curtis Fuller and saxophonist Keith Oxman have performed a regular gig at the Dazzle nightclub in Denver leading to this first recording for Fuller on the Capri label. I Will Tell Her is a special album in several ways, dedicated to Fuller's late wife Cathy, the album is also the 100th of the Capri label and their first double CD. The two disc set comprises a studio recording session and a live date at the Denver nightclub. Fuller ...