Imagination (Curtis Fuller album)

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Imagination
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Studio album by The Curtis Fuller Sextette
Released 1960
Recorded December 17, 1959
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre Jazz
Length37:27
Label Savoy
MG 12144
Producer Herman Lubinsky
Curtis Fuller chronology
The Curtis Fuller Jazztet
(1959) The Curtis Fuller Jazztet1959		Imagination
(1959)		 Images of Curtis Fuller
(1960) Images of Curtis Fuller1960

Imagination is an album by American trombonist Curtis Fuller's Sextette recorded in 1959 and released on the Savoy label. [1]

Curtis Fuller American jazz trombonist

Curtis DuBois Fuller is an American jazz trombonist, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and contributor to many classic jazz recordings.

Savoy Records American record label

Savoy Records is an American record company and label established by Herman Lubinsky in 1942 in Newark, New Jersey. Savoy specialized in jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel music.

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Reception

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The Allmusic website awarded the album 4 stars stating "Although the material (other than the lone standard "Imagination") is unfamiliar, the chord changes inspire the players to create some fine solos. Easily recommended to hard bop fans lucky enough to find this album". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Curtis Fuller except as indicated

  1. "Kachin" - 6:57
  2. "Bang Bang" - 6:11
  3. "Imagination" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 6:50
  4. "Blues de Funk" - 9:10
  5. "Lido Road" - 8:23

Personnel

Trombone Type of brass instrument

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. As on all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips (embouchure) cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. Nearly all trombones have a telescoping slide mechanism that varies the length of the instrument to change the pitch. Many modern trombone models also use a valve attachment to lower the pitch of the instrument. Variants such as the valve trombone and superbone have three valves similar to those on the trumpet.

Arrangement musical composition in altered form

In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work. It may differ from the original work by means of reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or development of the formal structure. Arranging differs from orchestration in that the latter process is limited to the assignment of notes to instruments for performance by an orchestra, concert band, or other musical ensemble. Arranging "involves adding compositional techniques, such as new thematic material for introductions, transitions, or modulations, and endings.. .. Arranging is the art of giving an existing melody musical variety".

Benny Golson American musician

Benny Golson is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launching his solo career. Golson is known for co-founding and co-leading The Jazztet with trumpeter Art Farmer in 1959. From the late 1960s through the 1970s Golson was in demand as an arranger for film and television and thus was less active as a performer, but he and Farmer reformed the Jazztet in 1982. Several of Golson's songs have become jazz standards, including "Blues March", "Whisper Not", "I Remember Clifford", and "Killer Joe".

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References

  1. ↑ Savoy Records Discography accessed September 5, 2012
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 5, 2012
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