Artist: Curtis Fuller
Album: Smokin'
Genre: Hard Bop
Label: Time/Mainstream Records/Solid Records Japan
Released: 1972/2017
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Smokin' (11:36)
- Jacque's Groove (6:17)
- Sop City (8:09)
- People, Places & Things (7:27)
- Stella By Starlight (7:46)
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- Personnel:
- Curtis Fuller - trombone
- Jimmy Heath - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Bill Hardman - trumpet
- Ted (Earl) Dunbar - electric & acoustic guitar
- Cedar Walton - acoustic piano, electric piano
- Mickey Bass - Fender & acoustic bass
- Billy Higgins - drums
Curtis Fuller is definitely smoking here – finding a way to fit his soulful trombone style to a sweet electric groove for the 70s – all at a level that makes the album one of his best from the decade! The drums are great – handled by Billy Higgins throughout, in a way that can be stone funky at some points, and nicely fluid at others – which Fuller matches with a combo that includes Cedar Walton on acoustic and electric piano, Bill Hardman on trumpet, Jimmy Heath on tenor and soprano, Earl Dunbar on guitar, and Mickey Bass on drums! The whole set is a wonderful step sideways for most players – a great way to reinvent their soulful styles of the 60s, but without going for any modes that are slick and commercial.