04 Curtis Fuller & Brad Goode - Up Jumped Spring 6:29

Up Jumped Spring · Curtis Fuller 6:29

Trombone – Curtis Fuller
Trumpet – Brad Goode
Bass – Larry Gray
Drums – Tim Davis
Piano – Karl Montzka

from Curtis Fuller – Up Jumped Spring [w/ Brad Goode]
Delmark DG 550 (2004)
Compact Disc

Trombonist Curtis Fuller was born and raised in Detroit, a hotbed of new jazz talent in the ’50s. In ’57 Fuller went to New York to make his recorded debut as part of the Yusef Lateef Quintet. He was 22 at the time and possessed a unique style and sound. After only eight months in New York he had made six albums as leader and fifteen as sideman including John Coltrane’s Blue Train. He also recorded with Jimmy Smith, Bud Powell, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter and many more. Up Jumped Spring was recorded In August 2003 while Curtis was in Chicago for the Chicago Jazz Festival. With Brad Goode, trumpet; Karl Montzka, piano; Larry Gray and Stewart Miller, bass; and Tim Davis, drums.


Recorded by Steve Wagner at Delmark Riverside Studio, Chicago) on August 31 and September 1, 2003.

Up Jumped Spring Review by Alex Henderson ALLMUSIC

Over the years, Curtis Fuller has recorded the majority of his albums in New York City. But when the veteran trombonist visited Chicago for the Chicago Jazz Festival in 2003, he joined forces with several Windy City musicians (including Karl Montzka on piano, Larry Gray or Stewart Miller on bass, and Tim Davis on drums) and recorded Up Jumped Spring for Bob Koester's Chicago-based Delmark label. Trumpeter Brad Goode (who was a fixture on the Chi-Town jazz scene before moving to Cincinnati in 1997) is also on board, as is singer Jacey Falk (who produced the album). Fuller (who was 68 when he recorded Up Jumped Spring) was one of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in his younger days, and not surprisingly, a strong Jazz Messengers influence asserts itself on these hard bop and post-bop performances -- the Jazz Messengers influence is impossible to miss on hard-swinging performances of John Coltrane's "Equinox" and Herbie Hancock's "Cantaloupe Island," as well as Duke Ellington's "In a Mellow Tone" and Benny Golson's "Whisper Not." Goode, thankfully, is featured extensively, and Falk (a promising jazz singer with a strong R&B influence) has a memorable spot on Jessie Mae Robinson's "Black Night" (the only vocal offering on this mostly instrumental disc). One wishes that instead of paying so much attention to overdone standards, Fuller had surprised us with some lesser-known gems on this CD -- a song doesn't have to be a standard to be great. Nonetheless, the trombonist is in fine form throughout the album -- he never fails to sound inspired and focused -- and Up Jumped Spring is a welcome addition to his catalog.



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