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Curtis Fuller's Quintet
12+ albums
trombonejazzbopHard Bop
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Curtis Fuller (Curtis DuBois Fuller, December 15, 1934) is an American jazz trombonist. Blues-ette is an album recorded in 1959 and released on the Savoy label. The Allmusic website awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Sessions in any genre of music are all too often described as "sublime," but seldom has that description been better deserved than with this relaxed hard bop classic... Any serious jazz collection is incomplete without this record. Period". Track listing All compositions by Curtis Fuller except as indicated. "Five Spot After Dark" (Benny Golson) - 5:18 "Undecided" (Sydney Robin, Charlie Shavers) - 7:09 "Blues-ette" - 5:31 "Minor Vamp" (Golson) - 5:12 "Love Your Spell Is Everywhere" (Edmund Goulding, Elsie Janis) - 7:07 "Twelve-Inch" - 6:28 Personnel Curtis Fuller - trombone Benny Golson - tenor saxophone Tommy Flanagan - piano Jimmy Garrison - bass Al Harewood - drums Fuller known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and contributor to many classic jazz recordings was born in Detroit. 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 and Donald 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 f
