Curtis Fuller Discography (Leader)

New Trombone (Prestige, 1957)

Track
"Vonce #5" - 7:40
"Transportation Blues" - 8:18
"Blue Lawson" - 6:51
"Namely You" (Gene de Paul, Johnny Mercer) - 9:25
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) - 6:30
"Alicia" bonus track on CD

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Sonny Red - alto saxophone
Hank Jones - piano
Doug Watkins - bass
Louis Hayes - drums

Curtis Fuller with Red Garland (New Jazz, 1957)

Track
"Seeing Red" (Sonny Red, Barry Harris) - 7:35
"Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 7:00
"Cashmere" (Curtis Fuller) - 7:17
"Slenderella" (Sonny Red) - 6:45
"Moonlight Becomes You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 7:43
"Roc and Troll" (Teddy Charles) - 7:42

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone - except track 5
Red Garland - piano
Sonny Red - alto saxophone - except track 2
Paul Chambers - bass
Louis Hayes - drums

Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns 1957

Track
"Ronnie's Tune" (Salvatore Zito) - 7:27
"Roc and Troll" (Teddy Charles) - 7:11
"A-Drift" (Zito) - 6:13
"Lyriste" (Charles) - 6:00
"Five Spot" (David Amram) - 3:28
"No Crooks" (Charles) - 6:26

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Teddy Charles (track 4), Hampton Hawes (tracks 1-3, 5 & 6) - piano
Sahib Shihab - alto saxophone
David Amram, Julius Watkins - French horn
Addison Farmer - bass
Jerry Segal - drums

The Opener (Blue Note, 1957)

Track
"A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) - 6:52
"Hugore" - 6:43
"Oscalypso" (Oscar Pettiford) - 5:40
"Here's to My Lady" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) - 6:43
"Lizzy's Bounce" - 5:25
"Soon" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:33

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Hank Mobley - tenor saxophone (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 6)
Bobby Timmons - piano
Paul Chambers - bass
Art Taylor - drums

Bone & Bari (Blue Note, 1957)

Track
"Algonquin" - 5:04
"Nita's Waltz" - 6:57
"Bone and Bari" - 6:20
"Heart and Soul" (Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser) - 4:50
"Again" (Dorcas Cochran, Lionel Newman) - 7:19
"Pickup" - 5:46

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone (except track 5)
Tate Houston - baritone saxophone (except track 4)
Sonny Clark - piano
Paul Chambers - bass
Art Taylor - drums

Jazz ...It's Magic! (Regent, 1958)

Track
"Two Ton" – 4:48
"Medley: It's Magic/My One and Only Love/They Didn't Believe Me" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn/ Guy Wood, Robert Mellin/Jerome Kern, Herbert Reynolds) – 13:41
"Soul Station" – 5:42
"Club Car" – 7:15
"Upper Berth" (Frank Foster) – 8:32

Personnel
Curtis Fuller – trombone
Sonny Red – alto saxophone
Tommy Flanagan – piano
George Tucker – bass
Louis Hayes – drums

Curtis Fuller Volume 3 (Blue Note, 1960)

Track
"Little Messenger" - 6:21
"Quantrale" - 6:13
"Jeanie" - 6:49
"Carvon" - 6:59
"Two Quarters of a Mile" - 6:33
"It's Too Late Now" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) - 6:54

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Art Farmer - trumpet
Sonny Clark - piano
George Tucker - bass
Louis Hayes - drums

Two Bones

Track
"Fuss Budget" - 7:44
"Oatmeal Cookie" - 4:37
"Da-Baby" - 7:31
"Pajama Tops" - 5:35
"Slide's Ride" (Slide Hampton) - 3:57
"Loquacious Lady" - 4:09
"Mean Jean" - 5:40

Personnel
Curtis Fuller, Slide Hampton - trombone
Sonny Clark - piano
George Tucker - bass
Charlie Persip - drums

Monday Night at Birdland

Track
Introduction by "Symphony Sid" – 0:09
"Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) – 12:26
"All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 11:27
"Bags' Groove" (Milt Jackson) – 12:29
"There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 9:29

Personnel
Hank Mobley, Billy Root – tenor saxophone
Lee Morgan – trumpet
Curtis Fuller – trombone
Ray Bryant – piano
Tommy Bryant – bass
Specs Wright – drums

Sliding Easy (United Artists, 1959)

Track
"Bit of Heaven" - 5:25
"Down Home" - 4:05
"I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone" (Buddy Johnson) - 5:52
"Bongo Bop" (Charlie Parker) - 7:50
"When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter, Spencer Williams) - 6:55
"C.T.A." (Jimmy Heath) - 5:09

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Lee Morgan - trumpet
Hank Mobley - tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan - piano
Paul Chambers - bass
Elvin Jones - drums
Benny Golson (tracks 1, 3, 4 & 5), Gigi Gryce (tracks 2 & 6) - arranger

Blues-ette (Savoy, 1959)

Track
"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

The Curtis Fuller Jazztet (Savoy, 1959)

Track
"It's All Right With Me" (Cole Porter) - 7:39
"Wheatleith Hall" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 14:06
"I'll Walk Alone" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 6:57
"Arabia" - 6:36
"Judy's Dilemma" - 5:52

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Benny Golson - tenor saxophone
Lee Morgan - trumpet
Wynton Kelly - piano
Paul Chambers - bass
Charlie Persip - drums

Imagination (Savoy, 1959)

Track
"Kachin" - 6:57
"Bang Bang" - 6:11
"Imagination" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 6:50
"Blues de Funk" - 9:10
"Lido Road" - 8:23

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone, arranger
Benny Golson - tenor saxophone
Thad Jones - trumpet
McCoy Tyner - piano
Jimmy Garrison - bass
Dave Bailey - drums

Images of Curtis Fuller (Savoy, 1960)

Track
"Accident" - 4:12
"Darryl's Minor" - 5:30
"Be Back Ta-Reckla" - 7:00
"Judyful" - 8:55
"New Date" - 5:00
"Accident" [take 3] - 4:23 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Darryl's Minor" [take 2] - 6:12 Bonus track
"New Date" [take 1] - 6:25 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone
McCoy Tyner - piano
Wilbur Harden - trumpet
Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone, flute
Lee Morgan - trumpet (tracks 1-4 & 6-7)
Jimmy Garrison (tracks 5 & 8), Milt Hinton (tracks 1-4 & 6-7) - bass
Bobby Donaldson (tracks 1-4 & 6-7), Clifford Jarvis (tracks 5 & 8) - drums

Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Warwick, 1960)

Track
"Chantized" - 4:08
"Flutie" - 7:12
"If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser) - 9:13
"But Beautiful" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 5:33
"Do I Love You?" (Cole Porter) - 5:57
"The Court" - 5:06
"Mr. L" - 5:02

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone
Walter Bishop, Jr. - piano
Buddy Catlett - bass
Stu Martin - drums

The Magnificent Trombone of Curtis Fuller (Epic, 1961)

Track
"I'll Be Around" (Alec Wilder) - 3:59
"Dream" (Johnny Mercer) - 5:12
"Mixed Emotions" (Stuart F. Louchheim) - 4:38
"Playpen" - 4:41
"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 3:44
"Two Different Worlds" (Al Frisch, Sid Wayne) - 5:54
"Teabags" - 4:02
"I Loves You, Porgy" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 4:29

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Les Spann - flute, guitar
Walter Bishop, Jr. - piano
Buddy Catlett (tracks 2-4, 7 & 8), Jimmy Garrison (tracks 1, 5 & 6) - bass
Stu Martin - drums

South American Cookin' (Epic, 1961)

Track
"Hello, Young Lovers" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 5:20
"Bésame Mucho" (Sunny Skylar, Consuelo Velázquez) - 9:13
"Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 6:43
"One Note Samba" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça) - 4:11
"Wee Dot" (J. J. Johnson, Leo Parker) - 6:48
"Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) - 7:09

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Zoot Sims - tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan - piano
Jymie Merritt - bass
Dave Bailey - drums

Cabin in the Sky (Impulse!, 1962)

Track
"The Prayer / Taking a Chance on Love" (George Bassman, Roger Edens / Duke, La Touche, Ted Fetter) - 4:42
"Cabin in the Sky" - 3:53
"The Old Ship of Zion" (Traditional) - 3:15
"Do What You Wanna Do" - 4:05
"Honey in the Honeycomb" - 3:17
"Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) - 5:45
"Savannah" - 2:39
"Love Turned the Light Out" - 3:39
"In My Old Virginia Home (On the River Nile)" - 3:32
"Love Me Tomorrow (But Leave Me Alone Today) / The Prayer" (Duke, La Touche / Bassman, Edens) - 5:18

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Al DeRisi, Bernie Glow, Freddie Hubbard, Ernie Royal - trumpet
Ray Alonge, Jim Buffington, Anthony Miranda, Morris Secon - French horn
Wayne Andre, Kai Winding - trombone
Bob Brookmeyer - valve trombone
Alan Raph - trombone, bass trombone
Harvey Phillips - tuba
Eddie Costa - vibraphone, percussion
Barry Galbraith - guitar
Hank Jones - piano
Art Davis, Milt Hinton - bass
Osie Johnson - drums
Harry Lookofsky - violin, concertmaster
Margaret Ross - harp
Unnamed string section
Manny Albam - arranger, conductor

Jazz Conference Abroad (Smash, 1962)

Track
Billie's Bounce
Blue 'n' Boogie
Stolen Moments
Scrapple From The Apple

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Ake Persson - trombone
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Benny Bailey - trumpet
Phil Woods - alto saxophone
Sahib Shihab - baritone saxophone, flute
Eric Dixon - tenor saxophone
Patti Bown - piano
Buddy Catlett - double bass
Stu Martin - drums
Quincy Jones - musical conductor.

Soul Trombone (Impulse!, 1962)

Track
"The Clan" – 6:19
"In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 4:57
"Newdles" – 7:40
"The Breeze and I" (Ernesto Lecuona, Al Stillman) – 4:03
"Dear Old Stockholm" (Traditional) – 9:07
"Ladies' Night" – 6:30


Personnel
Curtis Fuller – trombone
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
Jimmy Heath – tenor saxophone
Cedar Walton – piano
Jymie Merritt – bass
Jimmy Cobb (tracks 2-6), G. T. Hogan (track 1) – drums

Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns (Status, 1965)

Track
"Ronnie's Tune" (Salvatore Zito) - 7:27
"Roc and Troll" (Teddy Charles) - 7:11
"A-Drift" (Zito) - 6:13
"Lyriste" (Charles) - 6:00
"Five Spot" (David Amram) - 3:28
"No Crooks" (Charles) - 6:26

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Teddy Charles (track 4), Hampton Hawes (tracks 1-3, 5 & 6) - piano
Sahib Shihab - alto saxophone
David Amram, Julius Watkins - French horn
Addison Farmer - bass
Jerry Segal - drums

Smokin' (Mainstream, 1972)

Track
"Smokin'" - 11:10
"Jacque's Groove" - 6:08
"Sop City" - 7:58
"People Places and Things" - 7:14
"Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) - 7:29

Personnel
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Jimmy Heath - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Bill Hardman - trumpet
Ted Dunbar - guitar
Cedar Walton - piano, electric piano
Mickey Bass - bass, electric bass
Billy Higgins - drums

Crankin' (Mainstream, 1973)

Track
"Crankin'" – 6:53
"Maze" – 10:56
"Black Bath" – 9:30
"Ballade" – 4:52
"The Spirit" – 5:35

Personnel
Curtis Fuller – trombone
Ramon Morris – tenor saxophone
Bill Hardman – trumpet
Bill Washer – guitar
George Cables – electric piano
Stanley Clarke – bass, electric bass
Lenny White – drums, electric percussion

Four On The Outside (Timeless , 1978)

Track
Four On The Outside 
Suite-Kathy 
Hello Young Lovers 
Little Dreams 
Ballad For Gabe-Wells 
Corrida Del Torro

Personnel
Curtis Fuller, trombone
Pepper Adams, baritone sax
James Williams, piano
Dennis Irwin, bass 
John Yarling, drums

Fire and Filigree (Bee Hive, 1979)

Track
"Minor's Holiday" Kenny Dorham 3:45
2. "Ballad For Gabe Wells" Curtis Fuller 10:14
3. "Hello Young Lovers" Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers 8:02
4. "The Egyptian" Curtis Fuller 7:52
5. "Yesterdays" Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach 7:13
6. "Blue Monk" Thelonious Monk 5:50

Personnel
Bass – Sam Jones
Drums – Freddie Waits
Piano – Walter Bishop, Jr.
Tenor saxophone – Sal Nistico
Trombone – Curtis Fuller

Two Bones (Blue Note, 1980)

Track
"Fuss Budget" - 7:44
"Oatmeal Cookie" - 4:37
"Da-Baby" - 7:31
"Pajama Tops" - 5:35
"Slide's Ride" (Slide Hampton) - 3:57
"Loquacious Lady" - 4:09
"Mean Jean" - 5:40

Personnel
Curtis Fuller, Slide Hampton - trombone
Sonny Clark - piano
George Tucker - bass
Charlie Persip - drums

Curtis Fuller Meets Roma Jazz Trio（Timeless,1984）

Track
"Impressions" (John Coltrane) – 6:38
"R.E.D.'s Delights" (Curtis Fuller) – 6:49
"Jazz Island" (Fuller) – 5:42
"Naima" (Coltrane) – 8:19
"Afternoon in Paris (John Lewis) – 6:41
"Blue Bossa" (Kenny Dorham) – 5:15

Personnel
Curtis Fuller – trombone
Danilo Rea – piano
Enzo Pietropaoli – bass
Roberto Gatto – drums

Blues-ette Part II(Savoy,1993)

Track
"Love Your Spell Is Everywhere" (Edmund Goulding, Elsie Janis) – 7:09
"Sis" (Benny Golson) – 4:25
"Blues-ette '93" (Curtis Fuller) – 4:39
"Is It All a Game?" (Golson) – 5:46
"Capt' Kid" (Fuller) – 4:51
"Five Spot After Dark" (Golson) – 4:56
"How Am I to Know" (Jack King, Dorothy Parker) – 5:27
"Along Came Betty" (Golson) – 6:50
"Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 4:44
"Manhattan Serenade" (Louis Alter, Howard Johnson) – 6:28

Personnel
Curtis Fuller – trombone
Benny Golson – tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan - piano
Ray Drummond – bass
Al Harewood – drums

Up Jumped Spring (Delmark, 2004)

Track
"Cantaloupe Island" (Herbie Hancock) – 5:47
"Up Jumped Spring" (Freddie Hubbard) – 6:29
"In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 5:44
"God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.) – 6:15
"Bags' Groove" (Milt Jackson) – 4:11
"Equinox" (John Coltrane) – 5:40
"I'm Old Fashioned" (Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer) – 5:11
"Alone Together" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) – 4:52
"Whisper Not" (Benny Golson) – 2:57
"Black Night" (Jessie Mae Robinson) – 6:08
"Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) – 7:51

Personnel
Curtis Fuller – trombone
Brad Goode – trumpet
Karl Montzka - piano
Larry Gray (tracks 1-3 & 9), Stewart Miller (tracks 5-8, 10 & 11) – bass
Tim Davis - drums
Jacey Falk – vocals (track 10)

Keep It Simple (Savant, 2005)

Track
Spoken Intro – 0:04
"The Court" – 2:55
"Maze" – 6:33
"Girl Talk" (Neal Hefti, Bobby Troup) – 6:00
"A La Mode" – 3:53
"Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) – 9:57
"Western Sunrise" (Doug Carn) – 5:45
"Arabia" – 3:45
"I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 6:03
"Diane" (Javon Jackson) – 6:59
"It's You or No One" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) – 3:04

Personnel
Curtis Fuller – trombone (tracks 2, 3, 5-9 & 11)
Javon Jackson – tenor saxophone (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6 & 8-11)
Doug Carn - piano
Rodney Jordan – bass
Fritz Wise - drums

I Will Tell Her (Capri, 2010)

Track
Disc 1
1. TIME OFF
2. SAGITTARIUS
3. MINOR'S HOLIDAY
4. I WILL TELL HER
5. MAZE
6. THE COURT
7. ALAMODE
8. THE CLAN

Disc 2
1. TENOR MADNESS
2. THE COURT
3. I WILL TELL HER
4. MAZE
5. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOU
6. MINOR'S HOLIDAY

Personnel
CURTIS FULLER(tb)
KEUITH OXMAN(ts)
AL HOOD(tp)
CHIP STEPHENS(p)
KEN WALKER(b)
TODD REID(ds)

Down Home (Capri, 2012)

Track
Down Home;
Ladies' Night;
C Hip's Blues;
Sadness and Soul;
Nu Groove;
Then I'll Be Tired of You;
Mr. L;
Sweetness;
Jonli Bercosta;
The High Priest.

Personnel
Curtis Fuller: trombone;
Keith Oxman: tenor sax;
Al Hood: trumpet, flugelhorn;
Chip Stephens: piano;
Ken Walker: bass;
Todd Reid: drums.

In New Orleans (Progressive, 2018)

Recorded in 2002

Track
Good Bait
Up Jumped Spring
Caravan
Arabia
Star Eyes
Old Folks
The Court
Caravan (alt-tk3)


Personnel
Curtis Fuller (trombone)
Maurice Brown (trumpet)
Javon Jackson (saxophone)
Peter Martin (piano)
Bill Huntington (bass)
Jason Marsalis (drums)