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The Opener

April 24, 2011

Album: Reconsideration
By Lars Fiil
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011
Duration: 07:08

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The Opener

By Curtis Fuller

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: A Lovely Way to Spend An Evening; Hugore; Oscarlypso; Here's To My Lady; Lizzy's Bounce; Soon.

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Article: Album Review

What a rare privilege it is to review a new entry in Blue Note's esteemed RVG reissues series knowing that the featured artist can still be caught at venues around New York City. Such is the case with trombone virtuoso Curtis Fuller, whose 1957 Blue Note debut The Opener has been remastered courtesy of the great ...

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Curtis Fuller: The Opener

by Chris May
November 13, 2008

Detroit-born trombonist Curtis Fuller stepped into the hard bop big league during the summer of 1957 with a flurry of high profile sideman dates and two albums as leader, New Trombone (Prestige, 1957) and The Opener, made within a few weeks of each other. The Opener, a lithe and soulful but largely forgotten disc, has been ...

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