Gil Fuller

Trumpeter + Singer + Bandleader

Male

Born Apr 14, 1920

Died May 26, 1994

Walter Gilbert "Gil" Fuller was an American jazz arranger. He is no relation to the jazz trumpeter and vocalist Walter "Rosetta" Fuller. In the 1930s and 1940s, Fuller did extensive work writing and arranging for bandleaders such as Les Hite, Floyd Ray… Read More

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Jazz Review; A Coolly Lyrical Sound, But Not Exactly Smooth
NYTimes - Nov 10, 2005

When the alto saxophonist David Sanborn released his first album as a leader 30 years ago, there was no way of auguring the genre that would bubble up in his wake. Smooth jazz is unimaginable without Mr. Sanborn; his coolly imploring brand of lyricism runs through all its iterations, including the latest, urban jazz and chill. This is a source of
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Chico O'farrill, 79, Musician And Leader In Afro Cuban Jazz
NYTimes - Jun 29, 2001

Chico O'Farrill, the composer, arranger and onetime trumpeter who was one of the primary creators of Afro-Cuban jazz, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 79 and lived in Manhattan. In one of the happiest career-restoration stories of popular music, Mr. O'Farrill received more recognition in the last six years of his life than ever before, thanks
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Coaxed Back Down The Mountain
NYTimes - Nov 30, 1995

The arranger and composer Chico O'Farrill has spent a good portion of his career in darkness and exile, a strange place for one of the better writers of orchestral jazz. Though Mr. O'Farrill has written and arranged for Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton, Charlie Parker, Machito, Dizzy Gillespie and others, he has kept his distance from the American jazz
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The Guide
NYTimes - Nov 08, 1992

FOLK DANCE BALL Easy dances for beginners to join in and a very advanced performance by the Hameed African Drum and Dance Ensemble will be featured at the sixth annual Folk Dance Ball on Saturday in Tenafly. Partners are not necessary for participating in the evening of line, circle and couple dances from all over the world. Dances of the Balkan
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1920 Birth Born in 1920.

THIRTIES

1957 37 Years Old Fuller started his own publishing company in 1957, and while he continued to work with some jazz musicians (including Stan Kenton in 1955 and again in the 1960s), he also branched out into film music and pop (with Ray Charles, among others).

LATE ADULTHOOD

1994 74 Years Old Died in 1994.

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