CURTIS FULLER -- SOUL TROMBONE

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Curtis Fuller - Soul Trombone

Curtis Fuller

Soul Trombone

ABC/Impulse! 9000 series/A 13

Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, November 15, 1961

Personnel:

Freddie Hubbard (tp)

Curtis Fuller (tb)

Jimmy Heath (ts)

Cedar Walton (p)

Jymie Merritt (b)

G.T. Hogan (d)

(Dear Old) Stockholm

Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, November 16, 1961

Personnel:

Freddie Hubbard (tp)

Curtis Fuller (tb)

Jimmy Heath (ts)

Cedar Walton (p)

Jymie Merritt (b)

Jimmy Cobb (d)

In The Wee, Small Hours Of The Morning

Newdles

Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, November 17, 1961

Personnel:

Freddie Hubbard (tp)

Curtis Fuller (tb)

Jimmy Heath (ts)

Cedar Walton (p)

Jymie Merritt (b)

Jimmy Cobb (d)

The Clan

The Breeze And I

Ladies' Night

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Tracks

1. Stockholm [Getz] 6:19

2. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning [Hilliard/Mann] 4:57

3. Newdles [Fuller] 7:40

4. The Clan [Fuller] 4:03

5. The Breeze and I [Lecuona/Stillman] 9:07

6. Ladies' Night [Fuller] 6:30

Review by Ken Dryden

Curtis Fuller was very busy as a leader between his recording debut in 1957 and these 1961 sessions, which made up his first LP for Impulse and his eighteenth overall disc of his own. Though not quite as adventurous on the trombone as J.J. Johnson, Fuller more than holds his own leading a band including Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Heath, Jymie Merritt, and either Jimmy Cobb or G.T. Hogan on drums. The solos on this hard bop disc are superb, with Fuller giving his musicians plenty of room, while his own work is first-rate. Three of the six pieces are originals and even if they never caught on, there is no filler present anywhere.

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