Curtis Fuller The Opener (Reissue) CD Cover features new original illustration by award winning artist Joe Ciardiello Released: 03/08/2023

Released: 03/08/2023

Getting the Story 5

The record irreverently mulches the sounds and images of radio

but they're somewhat stuck in the way-back machine

alto saxophone

Curtis Fuller The Opener (Reissue) CD Cover features new original illustration by award winning artist Joe Ciardiello Released: 03/08/2023Description Vinyl LP pressing of this classic jazz album. American hard bop trombonist Curtis Fuller recorded The Opener for Blue Note records in 1957. This was his first album for the label. Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records first heard Fuller 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