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The Story of Cathy & Me

Curtis Fuller

The Story of Cathy & Me

Price: € 12.95
Format: CD
Label: Challenge Records
UPC: 0608917330922
Catnr: CR 73309
Release date: 01 April 2011
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Challenge Records
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0608917330922
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CR 73309
Release date
01 April 2011
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This CD is a reflection of how Curtis is going on without his dear wife of so many years. If how he survives with the memory of her burning in his heart as he does what he was inescapably meant to do all of his life, play his trombone just as she would have wanted him to do. When she was with him she vigorously and ambitiously supported and encouraged him as a major pinion in his success-filled life.

This CD begins by emotionally reaching into the deepest grotto of your hearts core, and you’re symbolically Curtis Fuller but for a moment as you feel what he must be feeling, but, of course, he with greater abundance and intensity, an intensity that will follow him indefinitely as his heart hangs low with sadness and regret… and deep, personal memories.
  • "What would the world have done if there had never been a Curtis Fuller?" Benny Golson, Saxophonist/composer
  • Trombonist Curtis Fuller is vooral bekend geworden als bandlid van Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers en als musicus op vele klassieke jazz opnamen
  • Hij maakte deel uit van Dizzy Gillespie’s band en ging op tournee met Count Basie.
  • Deze grote musicus maakt met deze cd een hommage aan zijn overleden vrouw Catherine Rose Fuller
  • Een zeer persoonlijk muzikaal document
  • Linernotes door Benny Golson
  • Deze CD is van een jazzmeester die een van de grootste verliezen in het leven meemaakt en dit in muziek probeert uit te drukken
Er war der einzige Posaunist, mit dem John Coltrane je spielte (zu hören auf der legendären CD 'Blue Train'). Seit den 50er Jahren gehört er zu den Stilbildern an seinem Instrument, und ist Vorbild für zahllose Bläser, die nach ihm kamen. Im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Musikern galt seine ganze Liebe nicht nur der Musik, sondern auch seiner Frau Cathy, die ihn die ganzen Jahre begleitete und in schwierigen Zeiten stützte. Als Cathy 2010 unerwartet starb, war das für den als sehr freundlichen und immer relaxten Mann ein tiefer Einschnitt - den er dann mit der verbliebenen Liebe, der zur Musik, wieder aufarbeiten wollte. Herausgekommen ist ein Album, das zu Herzen geht. 15 Titel, die im ersten Teil die Begegnung mit Cathy musikalisch umschreiben, im zweiten Teil das Leben mit ihr, im dritten Teil das Leben ohne sie. Ein ergreifendes musikalisches Schicksalswerk.

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Curtis Fuller

Fuller's parents were Jamaican and died when he was young; he was raised in an orphanage as a result. 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 first sessions as a leader for Prestige Records. Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records first heard him playing with Miles Davis in the late 1950s, and featured him as a sideman on record dates led by...
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Fuller's parents were Jamaican and died when he was young; he was raised in an orphanage as a result. 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 first sessions as a leader for Prestige Records.
Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records first heard him playing with Miles Davis in the late 1950s, and featured him as a sideman on record dates led by Sonny Clark and John Coltrane; Fuller's work on the latter's Blue Train album is probably his best known recorded performance. Fuller led four dates for Blue Note, though one of these, an album with Slide Hampton, was not issued for many years. Other sideman appearances over the next decade included work on albums under the leadership of Bud Powell, Jimmy Smith, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan and Joe Henderson (a former room mate at Wayne State University in 1956).
Fuller was also the first trombonist to be a member of the Art Farmer-Benny Golson Jazztet, later becoming the sixth man in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1961, staying with Blakey until 1965. In the early 1960s, he recorded two albums as leader for Impulse! Records, having also recorded for Savoy Records and Epic after his obligations to Blue Note had ended. In the late 1960s, he was part of Dizzy Gillespie's band. He went on to tour with Count Basie and also reunited with Blakey and Golson. Along with continuing to perform and record, Fuller is currently a faculty member of the New York State Summer School of the Arts (NYSSSA) School of Jazz Studies (SJS).
On January 13, 2010, Curtis' wife, Catherine Rose Driscoll Fuller, died.

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01.
Interlude 1: My Name Is Curtis DuBois Fuller
02:01
(Kenny Banks Jr., Akeem Marable) Curtis Fuller, Lester Walker, Akeem Marable, Henry Conerway III, Kenny Banks Jr., Brandy Brewer
02.
Little Dreams
07:25
Curtis Fuller, Lester Walker, Daniel Bauerkemper, Henry Conerway III, Nick Rosen, Brandy Brewer
03.
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
04:14
(Ewan Mac Coll) Curtis Fuller, Lester Walker, Akeem Marable, Henry Conerway III, Kenny Banks Jr., Brandy Brewer
04.
I Asked & She Said Yes
03:42
Curtis Fuller, Lester Walker, Akeem Marable, Henry Conerway III, Clarence Levy, Nick Rosen, Kevin Smith
05.
The Right To Love
07:51
(Gene Lees) Curtis Fuller, Tia Michelle Rouse, Lester Walker, Daniel Bauerkemper, Henry Conerway III, Kenny Banks Jr., Kevin Smith
06.
My Lady's Tears
05:25
Curtis Fuller, Lester Walker, Daniel Bauerkemper, Henry Conerway III, Nick Rosen, Brandy Brewer
07.
Interlude 2: My Children
01:49
(Jacey Falk) Curtis Fuller, Lester Walker, Daniel Bauerkemper, Henry Conerway III, Nick Rosen, Brandy Brewer
08.
Sweetness
03:07
(Curtis Fuller) Curtis Fuller, Lester Walker, Akeem Marable, Henry Conerway III, Clarence Levy, Nick Rosen, Kevin Smith
09.
Look What I Got
05:29
(Betty Carter) Curtis Fuller, Lester Walker, Akeem Marable, Henry Conerway III, Kenny Banks Jr., Brandy Brewer
10.
Interlude 3: Cancer, A Horrible Experience
01:24
(Akeem Marable, Jacey Falk) Curtis Fuller, Lester Walker, Daniel Bauerkemper, Henry Conerway III, Clarence Levy, Nick Rosen, Brandy Brewer
11.
Life Was Good, What Went Wrong
04:23
(Jacey Falk) Curtis Fuller, Tia Michelle Rouse, Lester Walker, Daniel Bauerkemper, Henry Conerway III, Nick Rosen, Brandy Brewer
12.
Love Was Everything When Love Was You And Me
03:56
(Abbey Lincoln, Thad Jones) Curtis Fuller, Lester Walker, Daniel Bauerkemper, Henry Conerway III, Nick Rosen, Brandy Brewer
13.
Too Late Now
05:39
(Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane) Curtis Fuller, Lester Walker, Daniel Bauerkemper, Henry Conerway III, Nick Rosen, Brandy Brewer
14.
Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
05:06
(Frank Loesser) Curtis Fuller, Lester Walker, Akeem Marable, Henry Conerway III, Kenny Banks Jr., Brandy Brewer
15.
Interlude 4: My Wish For Cathy And My Friends
02:42
(Kenny Banks Jr., Akeem Marable, Jacey Falk) Curtis Fuller, Lester Walker, Daniel Bauerkemper, Henry Conerway III, Nick Rosen, Brandy Brewer
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