Curtis Fuller - "The Opener" style_Melodic Hardcore love and freedom

love and freedom

combining an at times stark honesty with electrifying talent as a lyricist and performer

The album serves as a sequel

Now the band return with their third record in as many years: Skinty Fia

1998 through LaFace Records

Curtis Fuller - "The Opener" style_Melodic Hardcore love and freedomAmerican 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 performance. Featuring Hank Mobley on the tenor sax, Bobby