Curtis Fuller, Leading Trombonist Of Jazz's Detroit Wave, Dies At 86 - Pittsburgh Jazz Network2024-03-29T11:11:07Zhttps://jazzburgher.ning.com/forum/topics/curtis-fuller-leading-trombonist-of-jazz-s-detroit-wave-dies-at-8?groupUrl=obituaries&commentId=1992552%3AComment%3A550189&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noCurtis Fuller 1932–2021
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<h1 class="entry-title">Curtis Fuller 1932–2021</h1>
<p class="lede">A Detroit orphan who became a hard-bop architect, he played one of the most celebrated trombone solos in jazz history</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">Curtis Fuller 1932–2021</h1>
<p class="lede">A Detroit orphan who became a hard-bop architect, he played one of the most celebrated trombone solos in jazz history</p>
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<div class="entry-content"><p>Curtis Fuller, a trombonist, composer, and NEA Jazz Master who was a key player in cultivating bebop language on his instrument, died May 8 in Detroit, Michigan. He was 88.</p>
<p>His death was confirmed by his daughter, Mary Fuller, and her partner, Lilly Sullivan. Cause of death was not disclosed; however, Fuller had been inactive as a musician for about five years due to health problems.</p>
<p>Fuller was the pre-eminent trombonist of the hard-bop era, known for his technical prowess—particularly his ability to articulate wide intervals—and rhythmic ingenuity. He was also hailed for the colloquial flavor in his improvisational style. “The magnificent chops for bebop trombone may have fallen to J.J. Johnson,” critic Fred Bouchard<span> </span><a href="https://jazztimes.com/archives/curtis-fuller-the-complete-blue-noteua-sessions/">wrote in<span> </span><em>JazzTimes</em></a>, “but God gave Curtis Fuller a big chunk of the soul.”</p>
<p>As testimony to his predominance, Fuller belonged to two of the most important bands in hard bop: the Benny Golson/Art Farmer Jazztet, of which he was a founding member, and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, participating in one of that band’s most storied periods (with Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Cedar Walton, and Reggie Workman). He also made nearly three dozen albums under his own name and appeared on many significant and popular recordings as a sideman with the likes of Bud Powell, Sonny Clark, Lee Morgan, Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Jimmy Heath, and Count Basie.</p>
<p>However, his single most famous moment on record is undoubtedly his solo on John Coltrane’s classic “Blue Train,” recorded on September 15, 1957. Fuller contributed five choruses that expertly balanced restraint, virtuosity, and thoughtfully deployed grooves, adding up to arguably the most famous trombone solo in jazz history.</p>
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<p>Asked in a 2012 interview by writer Mark Stryker about the keys to a good solo, Fuller replied, “Humor and dialogue. … Music is English composition. Each song should have a subject, and phrases should have a noun, a verb, and like that. It should be expressive. Exclamation points: Bap!”</p>
<p>Curtis DuBois Fuller was born December 15, 1932 in Detroit to Antoinette Heath Fuller, a widow. His father, John Fuller, was a Ford Motor Company factory worker who died of tuberculosis while his wife was pregnant. Fuller’s mother died in 1942 of kidney disease, leaving Curtis to be separated from his older brother and sister and consigned to the Children’s Aid Society, an orphanage in central Detroit, where he grew up.</p>
<p>When he was around 12, Fuller saw Illinois Jacquet at Detroit’s Paradise Theatre and was floored by Jacquet’s trombonist, J.J. Johnson. Soon after, he saw Detroit native Frank Rosolino perform and was equally captivated. He took up trombone in the orphanage’s band and took some lessons from Rosolino. He switched to baritone horn at Cass Technical High School, though he continued studying trombone on his own and during a brief tenure at Wayne State University (where he roomed with Joe Henderson).</p>
<p>Drafted into the Army in 1953, Fuller was stationed at Fort Knox and played in an Army band led by Julian “Cannonball” Adderley. After his discharge in 1955, Fuller returned to Detroit and established himself on that city’s fecund jazz scene, including work in bands led by guitarist Kenny Burrell and multi-reedist Yusef Lateef. In April 1957, however, Fuller went to New York with Lateef’s band and decided to stay.</p>
<p>By the end of 1957 Fuller had made at least 21 recordings, including several of his own as well as key dates with Lateef, Powell, and Morgan—and Coltrane’s<span> </span><em>Blue Train.</em><span> </span>(Fuller had another claim to fame on the latter session, naming the date’s second most famous tune when he complained that Coltrane expected them to learn it “at a moment’s notice.”) He was instantly the hottest trombonist on the scene, and was soon working with Miles Davis, Lester Young, and Dizzy Gillespie.</p>
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<p>By 1960, Fuller was a member of both the Jazztet and the Quincy Jones Orchestra. The following year he joined the Jazz Messengers, for which he wrote the classic compositions “A La Mode,” “Three Blind Mice,” and “Buhaina’s Delight.”</p>
<p>However, work slowed to a trickle after he left the Messengers at the end of 1964. Although Fuller ended 1968 on a European tour with Gillespie’s big band, he began it with a desk job at the Chrysler Corporation’s New York offices and occasional freelance gigs.</p>
<p>Steady work began again in 1975, when he joined the Count Basie Orchestra for a three-year spell, through which he got to know Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. After leaving Basie in 1978, Fuller kept the momentum going, recording several albums as a leader and beginning fruitful collaborations with Woody Shaw, Lionel Hampton, and an assemblage called the Timeless All-Stars (created by the Dutch label Timeless Records).</p>
<p>A bout with lung cancer slowed Fuller down in the 1990s, but he beat the disease and rebounded late in the decade through work with Benny Golson, then went on a tear of new releases under his own name in the 2000s. Even so, further health problems became apparent, affecting his teeth. He began working more in the classroom than onstage, becoming a faculty member at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music and the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. However, he still made some impressive live and recorded showings into the early 2010s, with his final album<span> </span><em>Down Home</em><span> </span>released on the Capri Records label in 2012.</p>
<p>Fuller was predeceased by his wife of 30 years, the former Catherine Rose Driscoll, who passed away in 2010. He is survived by their three children, Paul, Mary, and Anthony Fuller; five children by a previous marriage, Ronald, Darryl, Gerald, Dellaney, and Wellington; nine grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.</p>
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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Michael J. West is a jazz journalist in Washington, D.C. In addition to his work on the national and international jazz scenes, he has been covering D.C.’s local jazz community since 2009. He is also a freelance writer, editor, and proofreader, and as such spends most days either hunkered down at a screen or inside his very big headphones. He lives in Washington with his wife and two children.</div>
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</div> RIP, Curtis. tag:jazzburgher.ning.com,2021-05-18:1992552:Comment:5500932021-05-18T20:17:16.204ZRoberta Windlehttps://jazzburgher.ning.com/profile/RobertaJeanWindle
<p>RIP, Curtis. </p>
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<p class="css-w6ymp8 e1wiw3jv0" id="article-summary">He was a fixture on the New York jazz scene since shortly after his arrival in 1957. He also made his mark as a composer.…</p>
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<p id="article-summary" class="css-w6ymp8 e1wiw3jv0">He was a fixture on the New York jazz scene since shortly after his arrival in 1957. He also made his mark as a composer.</p>
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Curtis Fuller, a trombonist and composer whose expansive sound and powerful sense of swing made him a driving force in postwar jazz, died on May 8 at a nursing home in Detroit. He was 88.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">His daughter Mary Fuller confirmed the death but did not specify the cause.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Mr. Fuller arrived in New York in the spring of 1957 and almost immediately became the leading trombonist of the hard-bop movement, which emphasized jazz’s roots in blues and gospel while delivering crisp and hummable melodies.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">By the end of the year, he had recorded no fewer than eight albums as a leader or co-leader for the independent labels Blue Note, Prestige and Savoy.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">That same year he also appeared on the saxophonist John Coltrane’s “Blue Train,” among the most storied albums in jazz, on which Mr. Fuller unfurls a number of timeless solos. On<span> </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT_Zs5FKDZE" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the title track</a>, now a jazz standard, his trombone plays a central role in carrying the bold, declarative<strong class="css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10"><span> </span></strong>melody.</p>
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Mr. Fuller’s five-chorus solo on “Blue Train” begins by playing off the last few notes of the trumpeter Lee Morgan’s improvisation, as if curiously picking up an object a friend had just put down. He then moves through a spontaneous repertoire of syncopated phrases and deftly wrought curlicues.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">In his book<span> </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://jazzfromdetroit.com/" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Jazz From Detroit”</a><span> </span>(2019), the critic Mark Stryker wrote, “The excitement, authority and construction of Fuller’s solo explain why he became a major influence.”</p>
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<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Mr. Fuller was also responsible for naming “Moment’s Notice,” another now-classic Coltrane composition on that album. “I made a comment,” Mr. Fuller said in<span> </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/curtis-fuller" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a 2007 interview</a><span> </span>for the National Endowment for the Arts, recalling the scene at Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey. “‘John, you put this music on us on a moment’s notice. We got three hours to rehearse this music and we’re gonna record?’ And that became the title of the song.”</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Mr. Fuller carried his knack for a concisely stated melody, and for elegantly tracing the harmonic seams of a tune, into his work as a composer. Among his many original tunes are “À La Mode,” “Arabia” and “Buhaina’s Delight,” all of which are now considered standards.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Those three pieces found their way into the repertoire of the drummer Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, hard bop’s flagship ensemble, of which Mr. Fuller was a core member from the early to the middle 1960s. The band was arguably at its peak in those years, when its membership included the trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, the saxophonist Wayne Shorter, the pianist Cedar Walton and the bassist Jymie Merritt (later replaced by Reggie Workman).</p>
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">“I owe a lot to Art Blakey, in so many ways,” Mr. Fuller said. “We were all driven by the fact that he encouraged us all to write. There wasn’t such a thing as a leader.”</p>
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">In 2007, Mr. Fuller was named an<span> </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/curtis-fuller" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">N.E.A. Jazz Master,</a><span> </span>the country’s highest official honor for a living jazz musician.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">In addition to his daughter Mary, he is survived by seven other children, Ronald, Darryl, Gerald, Dellaney, Wellington, Paul and Anthony; nine grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. His first marriage, to Judith Patterson, ended in divorce. His second wife, Catherine Rose Driscoll, died in 2010, after 30 years of marriage.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Curtis DuBois Fuller was born in Detroit on Dec. 15, 1932. (His birth year was incorrectly reportedthroughout his life — a discrepancy that was not cleared up until after his death — partly because at 17 he had exaggerated his age by two years so that he could join the work force.)</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">His father, John, who hailed from Jamaica, worked at a Ford Motor Company plant, but died of tuberculosis before Curtis was born. His mother, Antoinette (Heath) Fuller, a homemaker, had come north from Atlanta. She died when Curtis was 9, and he spent the next few years at an a orphanage run by Jesuits.</p>
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">While his mother was alive she had paid for Curtis’s sister, Mary, to receive piano lessons. He would listen through the wall, learning the fundamentals of music secondhand. He showed an interest in the violin at the orphanage but was discouraged after a teacher told him it was an unsuitable instrument for Black people to play.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Soon after that, he saw J.J. Johnson, bebop’s leading trombonist, in concert alongside the saxophonist Illinois Jacquet, and he became enthralled by the trombone’s “majestic sound,” he told Mr. Stryker in an interview.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">“Illinois Jacquet was an act: honking and screaming, biting the reed, squealing and that stuff. The crowd would go wild,” Mr. Fuller said. “But J.J. just<span> </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZGeYR8b-mg" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">stood there and played</a>, and he looked like<span> </span><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">the<span> </span></em>guy, the person who really knew what he was doing.”</p>
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">He was also impressed by the local trombonist Frank Rosolino, whom he heard perform soon after, and who became his teacher. He fell in with a coterie of young jazz musicians in Detroit, many of whom were destined for jazz prominence, including the pianist Barry Harris and the guitarist Kenny Burrell.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">“That was like a network in Detroit; we generally stuck together,” he said in 2007. “There was a lot of love and real closeness.”</p>
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">In<strong class="css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10"><span> </span></strong>1953 Mr. Fuller was drafted into the Army, where he joined one of the last all-Black military bands, whose other members included the future stars Cannonball Adderley and Junior Mance.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">After leaving the armed forces, he returned to the Detroit scene before traveling to New York in 1957 with the saxophonist Yusef Lateef’s band. When Miles Davis offered him a job, he decided to stay.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Playing with Davis led to his meeting two particularly important people: Coltrane, who was the band’s tenor saxophonist, and Alfred Lion, a founder of Blue Note Records, who heard Mr. Fuller onstage with Davis’s band and invited him to record for the label.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">As he began to make his name as a bandleader, Mr. Fuller also found work alongside prominent musicians including Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and James Moody.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Holiday, who became a mentor, encouraged him to bear in mind the range and pacing of his own speaking voice when he improvised. “When I came to New York, I always tried to impress people, play long solos as fast as I could — lightning fast,” Mr. Fuller said in 2007. “And all of a sudden Billie Holiday said, ‘When you play, you’re<span> </span><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">talking</em><span> </span>to people. So learn how to edit your thing, you know?’ I learned to do that.”</p>
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">In 1959, Savoy released “The Curtis Fuller Jazztet,” a lively album that included the saxophonist and composer Benny Golson as a featured guest. Soon after, Mr. Golson and the trumpeter Art Farmer began a separate band under the Jazztet name, with Mr. Fuller as a side musician. It would be one of the quintessential jazz ensembles of the 1960s, but Mr. Fuller soon moved on to other endeavors. (He and Mr. Golson remained close friends until his death.)</p>
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<div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">The untimely deaths of Coltrane, who was also a dear friend, and Mr. Fuller’s sister in 1967 sent him into a depression, and he left the music business, taking a job with the Chrysler Corporation in downtown Manhattan. But about a year later, Gillespie persuaded Mr. Fuller to join his band for a world tour, and he re-entered the jazz scene for good.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">He spent two years in Count Basie’s orchestra in the mid-1970s, and also returned to leading his own ensembles.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">In the 1990s, he survived a bout with lung cancer (despite never having been a smoker) and had part of one lung removed. He spent two years reinventing his trombone technique to accommodate his compromised breathing power. He succeeded, and released a string of well-received albums in the late 1990s and 2000s.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">But as his health continued to deteriorate he turned more attention to teaching, joining the faculty at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music and at the Kennedy Center's Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Asked in 2007 to describe the signature sound that had left such an indelible mark on jazz, Mr. Fuller mentioned the importance of embracing one’s distinct identity. “I try to be warm. Warm and effective, you know. And sometimes I’m cold and<span> </span><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">de</em>fective,” he said. “That’s the way water runs. I’m not God, I’m not perfection. I’m just me.”</p>
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As leader[e…tag:jazzburgher.ning.com,2021-05-12:1992552:Comment:5502252021-05-12T04:04:00.038ZDr. Nelson Harrisonhttps://jazzburgher.ning.com/profile/NelsonHarrison
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Discography">Discography</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Curtis_Fuller&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Discography">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Discography">Discography</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Curtis_Fuller&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Discography">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Trombone" title="">New Trombone</a></i><span> </span>(Prestige, 1957)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_%26_Bari" title="Bone & Bari">Bone & Bari</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1957)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Opener" title="The Opener">The Opener</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1957)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_...It%27s_Magic!" title="Jazz ...It's Magic!">Jazz ...It's Magic!</a></i><span> </span>(Regent, 1958)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curtis_Fuller_Jazztet" title="The Curtis Fuller Jazztet">The Curtis Fuller Jazztet</a></i><span> </span>(Savoy, 1959)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-4" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_Easy" title="Sliding Easy">Sliding Easy</a></i><span> </span>(United Artists, 1959)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-5" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues-ette" title="Blues-ette">Blues-ette</a></i><span> </span>(Savoy, 1959)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-6" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller_Volume_3" title="">Curtis Fuller Volume 3</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1961)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-7" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_Cookin%27" title="Art Blakey">South American Cookin'</a></i><span> </span>(Epic, 1961)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-8" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnificent_Trombone_of_Curtis_Fuller" title="The Magnificent Trombone of Curtis Fuller">The Magnificent Trombone of Curtis Fuller</a></i><span> </span>(Epic, 1961)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-9" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_of_the_Soul-Stream_Trombone" title="Blue Note Records">Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone</a></i><span> </span>(Warwick, 1961)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-10" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Images_of_Curtis_Fuller" title="Images of Curtis Fuller">Images of Curtis Fuller</a></i><span> </span>(Savoy, 1962)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-11" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller_with_Red_Garland" title="Curtis Fuller with Red Garland">Curtis Fuller with Red Garland</a></i><span> </span>(New Jazz, 1963)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-12" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_in_the_Sky_(Curtis_Fuller_album)" title="Cabin in the Sky (Curtis Fuller album)">Cabin in the Sky</a></i><span> </span>(Impulse!, 1962)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-13" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>Jazz Conference Abroad</i><span> </span>(Smash, 1961 [1962])<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-14" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Trombone" title="Soul Trombone">Soul Trombone</a></i><span> </span>(Impulse!, 1962)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-15" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination_(Curtis_Fuller_album)" title="Imagination (Curtis Fuller album)">Imagination</a></i><span> </span>(Savoy, 1963)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-16" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller_and_Hampton_Hawes_with_French_Horns" title="Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns">Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns</a></i><span> </span>(Status, 1965)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-17" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokin%27_(Curtis_Fuller_album)" title="Smokin' (Curtis Fuller album)">Smokin'</a></i><span> </span>(Mainstream, 1972)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-18" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crankin%27" title="Crankin'">Crankin'</a></i><span> </span>(Mainstream, 1973)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-19" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_Filigree" title="Fire and Filigree">Fire and Filigree</a></i><span> </span>(Bee Hive, 1979)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-20" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Bones" title="Two Bones">Two Bones</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1980)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-21" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Jumped_Spring" title="Up Jumped Spring">Up Jumped Spring</a></i><span> </span>(Delmark, 2004)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-22" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_It_Simple_(Curtis_Fuller_album)" title="Keep It Simple (Curtis Fuller album)">Keep It Simple</a></i><span> </span>(Savant, 2005)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-23" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>I Will Tell Her</i><span> </span>(Capri, 2010)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-24" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>The Story of Cathy & Me</i><span> </span>(2011)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-25" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>Down Home</i><span> </span>(Capri, 2012)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-26" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>In New Orleans</i><span> </span>(Progressive, 2018)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-27" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="As_sideman">As sideman</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Curtis_Fuller&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: As sideman">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Basie" title="Count Basie">Count Basie</a></b></p>
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<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basie_Big_Band" title="Basie Big Band">Basie Big Band</a></i><span> </span>(Pablo, 1975)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-28" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Told_You_So_(Count_Basie_album)" title="I Told You So (Count Basie album)">I Told You So</a></i><span> </span>(Pablo, 1976)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-29" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Time_(Count_Basie_album)" title="Prime Time (Count Basie album)">Prime Time</a></i><span> </span>(Pablo, 1977)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-30" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_Time_(album)" title="Fun Time (album)">Fun Time</a></i><span> </span>(Pablo, 1975 [1991])<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-31" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
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<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Bailey_(musician)" title="A Caddy for Daddy">Dave Bailey</a></b></p>
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<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Foot_in_the_Gutter" title="">One Foot in the Gutter</a></i><span> </span>(Epic, 1960)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-32" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettin%27_Into_Somethin%27" title="Gettin' Into Somethin'">Gettin' Into Somethin'</a></i><span> </span>(Epic, 1960)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-33" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash!_(Dave_Bailey_album)" title="Bash! (Dave Bailey album)">Bash!</a></i><span> </span>(Jazzline, 1961)/<i>Modern Mainstream</i><span> </span>(Fontana, 1963)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-34" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
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<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Blakey" title="">Art Blakey</a></b></p>
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<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Blakey!!!!!_Jazz_Messengers!!!!!" title="Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!!">Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!!</a></i><span> </span>(Impulse!, 1961)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-35" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(Art_Blakey_album)" title="Mosaic (Art Blakey album)">Mosaic</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1961)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-36" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Blind_Mice_(album)" title="Three Blind Mice (album)">Three Blind Mice</a></i><span> </span>(United Artists, 1962)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-37" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_(Art_Blakey_album)" title="Caravan (Art Blakey album)">Caravan</a></i><span> </span>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_Records" title="Riverside Records">Riverside</a>, 1962)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-38" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugetsu_(album)" title="Ugetsu (album)">Ugetsu</a></i><span> </span>(Riverside, 1963)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-39" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_African_Beat" title="The African Beat">The African Beat</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1962)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-40" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buhaina%27s_Delight" title="Buhaina's Delight">Buhaina's Delight</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1963)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-41" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Boy_(Art_Blakey_album)" title="Golden Boy (Art Blakey album)">Golden Boy</a></i><span> </span>(Colpix, 1963)<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_for_All_(album)" title="Free for All (album)">Free For All</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1965)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-42" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27S_Make_It" title="'S Make It">'S Make It</a></i><span> </span>(Limelight, 1965)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-43" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indestructible_(Art_Blakey_album)" title="Indestructible (Art Blakey album)">Indestructible</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1966)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-44" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_(Art_Blakey_album)" title="Kyoto (Art Blakey album)">Kyoto</a></i><span> </span>(Riverside, 1966)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-45" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>Thermo</i><span> </span>(Milestone, 1973)<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_My_Prime_Vol._1" title="In My Prime Vol. 1">In My Prime Vol. 1</a></i><span> </span>(Timeless, 1978)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-46" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>Live at the Renaissance Club</i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1978)<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Messengers" class="mw-redirect" title="Live Messengers">Live Messengers</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1978)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-47" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
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<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane" title="John Coltrane">John Coltrane</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Train_(album)" title="Blue Train (album)">Blue Train</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1958)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-48" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_Strut" title="Tanganyika Strut">Tanganyika Strut</a></i><span> </span>(Savoy, 1958) Coltrane co-led with<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Harden" title="Wilbur Harden">Wilbur Harden</a><sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-49" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Way_Out" title="Jazz Way Out">Jazz Way Out</a></i><span> </span>(Savoy, 1958) as for<span> </span><i>Tanganyika Strut</i><sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-50" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_Africa:_The_Savoy_Sessions" title="Dial Africa: The Savoy Sessions">Dial Africa: The Savoy Sessions</a></i><span> </span>(Savoy, 1977) reissue of the 1958 Savoy sessions<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-51" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_(album)" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Gold Coast</a></i><span> </span>(Savoy, 1978) 1958 recordings<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_DeFranco" title="">Buddy DeFranco</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Bag" title="Blues Bag">Blues Bag</a></i><span> </span>(Vee Jay, 1965)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-52" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Dorham" title="Kenny Dorham">Kenny Dorham</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_Moment" title="This Is the Moment">This Is the Moment</a></i><span> </span>(Riverside, 1958)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-53" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>Hot Stuff from Brazil</i><span> </span>(West Wind, 1988)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-54" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Farmer" title="Art Farmer">Art Farmer</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_Shout" title="Brass Shout">Brass Shout</a></i><span> </span>(United Artists, 1959)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-55" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Jazztet" title="Meet the Jazztet">Meet the Jazztet</a></i><span> </span>(Argo, 1960)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-56" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_City" title="Back to the City">Back to the City</a></i><span> </span>(Contemporary, 1986) – Jazztet album<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-57" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_(The_Jazztet_album)" title="Real Time (The Jazztet album)">Real Time</a></i><span> </span>(Contemporary, 1988) – Jazztet album<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-58" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Farnsworth" title="Joe Farnsworth">Joe Farnsworth</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li><i>It's Prime Time</i><span> </span>(Eighty-Eight's, 2003)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-59" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>Drumspeak</i><span> </span>(Commodore, 2006)<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Golson" title="Benny Golson">Benny Golson</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovin%27_with_Golson" title="Groovin' with Golson">Groovin' with Golson</a></i><span> </span>(New Jazz, 1959)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-60" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_Benny_Golson" title="The Other Side of Benny Golson">The Other Side of Benny Golson</a></i><span> </span>(Riverside, 1959)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-61" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_Golson" title="Gone with Golson">Gone with Golson</a></i><span> </span>(New Jazz, 1960)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-62" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettin%27_with_It" title="Gettin' with It">Gettin' with It</a></i><span> </span>(New Jazz, 1960)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-63" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_a_Number_from_1_to_10" title="Take a Number from 1 to 10">Take a Number from 1 to 10</a></i><span> </span>(Argo, 1961)<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-18">[18]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_%2B_Jazz_%3D_Swing" title="Pop + Jazz = Swing">Pop + Jazz = Swing</a></i><span> </span>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Fidelity_Records" title="Audio Fidelity Records">Audio Fidelity</a>, 1962)/<i>Just Jazz!</i><span> </span>(Audio Fidelity, 1965)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-64" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Message" title="California Message">California Message</a></i><span> </span>(Baystate, 1981)<span> </span><sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-65" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_More_Mem%27ry" title="One More Mem'ry">One More Mem'ry</a></i><span> </span>(Baystate, 1982)<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Hampton" title="Lionel Hampton">Lionel Hampton</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li><i>Hamp in Haarlem</i><span> </span>(Timeless, 1979)<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-20">[20]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>Live in Europe</i><span> </span>(Elite Special, 1980)<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-21">[21]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>Outrageous</i><span> </span>(Glad-Hamp, 1982)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-66" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Heath" title="Jimmy Heath">Jimmy Heath</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thumper" title="The Thumper">The Thumper</a></i><span> </span>(Riverside, 1960)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-67" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_and_Understanding_(album)" title="">Love and Understanding</a></i><span> </span>(Muse, 1973)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-68" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>Fast Company</i><span> </span>(Milestone, 1975)<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_and_the_Place_(Jimmy_Heath_album)" title="Blue Odyssey">The Time and the Place</a></i><span> </span>(Landmark, 1994)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-69" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones" title="Quincy Jones">Quincy Jones</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_%2761" title="Newport '61">Newport '61</a></i><span> </span>(Mercury, 1961)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-70" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>The Quintessence</i><span> </span>(Impulse!, 1962)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-71" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusef_Lateef" title="Yusef Lateef">Yusef Lateef</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_for_the_Thinker" title="Jazz for the Thinker">Jazz for the Thinker</a></i><span> </span>(Savoy, 1957)<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Mates" title="Stable Mates">Stable Mates</a></i><span> </span>(Savoy, 1957)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-72" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Mood" title="Jazz Mood">Jazz Mood</a></i><span> </span>(Savoy, 1957)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-73" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Dawn:_The_Music_of_Yusef_Lateef" title="Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef">Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef</a></i><span> </span>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verve_Records" title="Verve Records">Verve</a>, 1957)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-74" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Centaur_and_the_Phoenix" title="The Centaur and the Phoenix">The Centaur and the Phoenix</a></i><span> </span>(Riverside, 1960)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-75" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Mobley" title="Hank Mobley">Hank Mobley</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_Night_at_Birdland" title="Monday Night at Birdland">Monday Night at Birdland</a></i><span> </span>(Roulette, 1959)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-76" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Monday_Night_at_Birdland" title="Another Monday Night at Birdland">Another Monday Night at Birdland</a></i><span> </span>(Roulette, 1959)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-77" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Caddy_for_Daddy" title="">A Caddy for Daddy</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1966)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-78" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Shaw" title="The New York Times Magazine">Woody Shaw</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_III" title="Woody III">Woody III</a></i><span> </span>(Columbia, 1979)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-79" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Sure!_(Woody_Shaw_album)" title="For Sure! (Woody Shaw album)">For Sure!</a></i><span> </span>(Columbia, 1980)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-80" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_(album)" title="Rosewood (album)">Rosewood</a></i><span> </span>(Columbia, 1977 [1978])<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-81" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><b>With<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Smith_(musician)" title="Jimmy Smith (musician)">Jimmy Smith</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Party_(Jimmy_Smith_album)" title="House Party (Jimmy Smith album)">House Party</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1957 [1958])<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-82" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>Confirmation</i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1979)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-83" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>Special Guests</i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1984)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-84" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
</ul> With others
Ahmed Abdul-M…tag:jazzburgher.ning.com,2021-05-12:1992552:Comment:5499892021-05-12T04:00:49.804ZDr. Nelson Harrisonhttps://jazzburgher.ning.com/profile/NelsonHarrison
<ul>
<li><br></br><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-credits_12-84"></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><b>With others</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Abdul-Malik" title="Ahmed Abdul-Malik">Ahmed Abdul-Malik</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Meets_West_(Ahmed_Abdul-Malik_album)" title="East Meets West (Ahmed Abdul-Malik album)">East Meets West</a></i><span> </span>(RCA Victor, 1960)…<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-credits_12-85"></sup></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><br/><sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-84" class="reference"></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><b>With others</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Abdul-Malik" title="Ahmed Abdul-Malik">Ahmed Abdul-Malik</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Meets_West_(Ahmed_Abdul-Malik_album)" title="East Meets West (Ahmed Abdul-Malik album)">East Meets West</a></i><span> </span>(RCA Victor, 1960)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-85" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bishop_Jr." title="Walter Bishop Jr.">Walter Bishop Jr.</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubicle_(album)" title="Cubicle (album)">Cubicle</a></i><span> </span>(Muse, 1978)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-86" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Brookmeyer" title="Bob Brookmeyer">Bob Brookmeyer</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Is_a_Kick" title="Jazz Is a Kick">Jazz Is a Kick</a></i><span> </span>(Mercury, 1960)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-87" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Chambers" title="Paul Chambers">Paul Chambers</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Bassman" title="1st Bassman">1st Bassman</a></i><span> </span>(Vee Jay, 1960)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-88" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Clark" title="Sonny Clark">Sonny Clark</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_%22S%22_for_Sonny" title="Dial "S" for Sonny">Dial "S" for Sonny</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1957)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-89" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li>Sonny Clark,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny%27s_Crib" title="Sonny's Crib">Sonny's Crib</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1958)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-90" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Conover" title="Willis Conover">Willis Conover</a>,<span> </span><i>Jazz Committee for Latin American Affairs</i><span> </span>(FM, 1963)<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-24">[24]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Donaldson" title="Lou Donaldson">Lou Donaldson</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Takes_Off" title="Lou Takes Off">Lou Takes Off</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1958)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-91" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Evans" title="Gil Evans">Gil Evans</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Jazz_Standards" title="Great Jazz Standards">Great Jazz Standards</a></i><span> </span>(World Pacific, 1959)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-92" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flanagan" title="Tommy Flanagan">Tommy Flanagan</a>,<span> </span><i>Trio and Sextet</i><span> </span>(Onyx, 1973)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-93" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dizzy_Gillespie_Reunion_Big_Band" title="The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band">The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band</a></i><span> </span>(MPS, 1969)<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-25">[25]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Gordon" title="Dexter Gordon">Dexter Gordon</a>,<span> </span><i>Great Encounters</i><span> </span>(Columbia, 1979)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-94" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Griffin" title="Johnny Griffin">Johnny Griffin</a>,<span> </span><i>The Cat</i><span> </span>(Antilles, 1991)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-95" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_Hampton" title="Slide Hampton">Slide Hampton</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Trombones" title="World of Trombones">World of Trombones</a></i><span> </span>(West 54, 1979)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-96" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Harden" title="Wilbur Harden">Wilbur Harden</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Way_Out" title="Jazz Way Out">Jazz Way Out</a></i><span> </span>(Savoy, 1958)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-97" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Hawes" title="Hampton Hawes">Hampton Hawes</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baritones_and_French_Horns" title="Baritones and French Horns">Baritones and French Horns</a></i><span> </span>(Prestige, 1957)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-98" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Heath" title="Albert Heath">Albert Heath</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanza_(The_First)" title="Kwanza (The First)">Kwanza (The First)</a></i><span> </span>(Muse, 1974)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-99" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Henderson" title="Joe Henderson">Joe Henderson</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_for_Joe" title="Mode for Joe">Mode for Joe</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1966)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-100" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li>Joe Henderson,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Pursuit_of_Blackness" title="In Pursuit of Blackness">In Pursuit of Blackness</a></i><span> </span>(Milestone, 1971)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-101" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Hubbard" title="Freddie Hubbard">Freddie Hubbard</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artistry_of_Freddie_Hubbard" title="The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard">The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard</a></i><span> </span>(Impulse!, 1963)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-102" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li>Freddie Hubbard,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_%26_the_Soul" title="The Body & the Soul">The Body & the Soul</a></i><span> </span>(Impulse!, 1963)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-103" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jenkins_(jazz_musician)" title="John Jenkins (jazz musician)">John Jenkins</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Eyes" title="Jazz Eyes">Jazz Eyes</a></i><span> </span>(Regent, 1957)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-104" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philly_Joe_Jones" title="Philly Joe Jones">Philly Joe Jones</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drums_Around_the_World" title="Drums Around the World">Drums Around the World</a></i><span> </span>(Riverside, 1959)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-105" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li>Philly Joe Jones,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Together!_(Elvin_Jones_and_Philly_Joe_Jones_album)" title="Together! (Elvin Jones and Philly Joe Jones album)">Together!</a></i><span> </span>(Atlantic, 1964)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-106" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Jordan" class="mw-redirect" title="Cliff Jordan">Cliff Jordan</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Jordan_(album)" title="Cliff Jordan (album)">Cliff Jordan</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1957)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-107" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Lincoln" title="Abbey Lincoln">Abbey Lincoln</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Magic_(album)" class="mw-redirect" title="It's Magic (album)">It's Magic</a></i><span> </span>(Riverside, 1958)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-108" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_Little" title="Booker Little">Booker Little</a>,<span> </span><i>New York Sessions</i><span> </span>(Lone Hill, 2004)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-109" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Longo" title="Mike Longo">Mike Longo</a>,<span> </span><i>The Awakening</i><span> </span>(Mainstream, 1972)<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-26">[26]</a></sup></li>
<li>Mike Longo,<span> </span><i>New York '78</i><span> </span>(Consolidated Artists, 1996)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-110" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machito" title="Machito">Machito</a>,<span> </span><i>With Flute to Boot</i><span> </span>(Roulette, 1959)<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-27">[27]</a></sup></li>
<li>Machito,<span> </span><i>Latin Soul Plus Jazz</i><span> </span>(Caliente, 1973)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-111" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mitchell" title="Blue Mitchell">Blue Mitchell</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_6_(album)" title="Big 6 (album)">Big 6</a></i><span> </span>(Riverside, 1958)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-112" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li>Blue Mitchell,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Soul" title="Blue Soul">Blue Soul</a></i><span> </span>(Riverside, 1959)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-113" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_McLean" title="Jackie McLean">Jackie McLean</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makin%27_the_Changes" title="Makin' the Changes">Makin' the Changes</a></i><span> </span>(New Jazz, 1960)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-114" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li>Jackie McLean,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Long_Drink_of_the_Blues" title="A Long Drink of the Blues">A Long Drink of the Blues</a></i><span> </span>(New Jazz, 1961)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-115" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McFarland" title="Gary McFarland">Gary McFarland</a>,<span> </span><i>Today</i><span> </span>(Skye, 1970)<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-28">[28]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Morgan" title="Lee Morgan">Lee Morgan</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Lights_(Lee_Morgan_album)" title="City Lights (Lee Morgan album)">City Lights</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1957)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-116" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li>Lee Morgan,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cat_(album)" title="Tom Cat (album)">Tom Cat</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1980)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-117" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_%22Fathead%22_Newman" title="David "Fathead" Newman">David "Fathead" Newman</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_for_the_New_Man" title="Song for the New Man">Song for the New Man</a></i><span> </span>(HighNote, 2004)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-118" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li>David "Fathead" Newman,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamondhead_(David_%22Fathead%22_Newman_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Diamondhead (David "Fathead" Newman album)">Diamondhead</a></i><span> </span>(HighNote, 2008)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-119" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Niemack" title="Judy Niemack">Judy Niemack</a>,<span> </span><i>Blue Bop</i><span> </span>(Free Lance, 1989)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-120" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Payne" title="Cecil Payne">Cecil Payne</a>,<span> </span><i>Bright Moments</i><span> </span>(Spotlite, 1980)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-121" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Person" title="Houston Person">Houston Person</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Odyssey" title="">Blue Odyssey</a></i><span> </span>(Prestige, 1968)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-122" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Powell" title="Bud Powell">Bud Powell</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud!_The_Amazing_Bud_Powell_(Vol._3)" title="Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 3)">Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 3)</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1957)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-123" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Quinichette" title="Paul Quinichette">Paul Quinichette</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sunny_Side_(Paul_Quinichette_album)" title="On the Sunny Side (Paul Quinichette album)">On the Sunny Side</a></i><span> </span>(Prestige, 1957)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-124" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Shorter" title="Wayne Shorter">Wayne Shorter</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia_(Wayne_Shorter_album)" title="Schizophrenia (Wayne Shorter album)">Schizophrenia</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1969)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-125" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Tucker" title="Mickey Tucker">Mickey Tucker</a>,<span> </span><i>Theme for a Woogie-Boogie</i><span> </span>(Denon, 1979)<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-29">[29]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-30">[30]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Turrentine" title="Stanley Turrentine">Stanley Turrentine</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sugar_Man" title="The Sugar Man">The Sugar Man</a></i><span> </span>(CTI, 1975)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-126" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li>Stanley Turrentine,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Memory_Of_(Stanley_Turrentine_album)" title="In Memory Of (Stanley Turrentine album)">In Memory Of</a></i><span> </span>(Blue Note, 1979)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-127" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Walton" title="Cedar Walton">Cedar Walton</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Rebellion_3" title="Eastern Rebellion 3">Eastern Rebellion 3</a></i><span> </span>(Timeless, 1980)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-128" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li>Cedar Walton,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar%27s_Blues" title="Cedar's Blues">Cedar's Blues</a></i><span> </span>(Red, 1985)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-129" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Watson" title="Bobby Watson">Bobby Watson</a>,<span> </span><i>All Because of You</i><span> </span>(Roulette, 1978)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-130" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wess" title="Frank Wess">Frank Wess</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_de_Blues" title="Opus de Blues">Opus de Blues</a></i><span> </span>(Savoy, 1984)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-131" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Wilkins" title="Ernie Wilkins">Ernie Wilkins</a>,<span> </span><i>K.A.L.E.I.D.O.D.U.K.E<span> </span></i>(Birdology, 1994)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Winding" title="Kai Winding">Kai Winding</a><span> </span>and Curtis Fuller,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Bones_%2780" title="Buddy DeFranco">Giant Bones '80</a></i><span> </span>(Sonet, 1980)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-132" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Woods" title="Phil Woods">Phil Woods</a>,<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_Swing" title="Rights of Swing">Rights of Swing</a></i><span> </span>(Candid, 1961)<sup id="cite_ref-credits_12-133" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Fuller#cite_note-credits-12">[12]</a></sup></li>
</ul> RIP Mr. Fuller. You said what…tag:jazzburgher.ning.com,2021-05-11:1992552:Comment:5501452021-05-11T23:29:59.137ZAnthony (Tony) Janflonehttps://jazzburgher.ning.com/profile/AnthonyTonyJanflone
<p>RIP Mr. Fuller. You said what you had to say. Thank you.</p>
<p>RIP Mr. Fuller. You said what you had to say. Thank you.</p> tag:jazzburgher.ning.com,2021-05-11:1992552:Comment:5502212021-05-11T04:53:22.305ZDr. Nelson Harrisonhttps://jazzburgher.ning.com/profile/NelsonHarrison
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