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Curtis Fuller

American jazz trombonist Born December 15, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, died May 8, 2021 in Detroit, Michigan, USA In a Jesuit orphanage from the age of 9 for several years after the death of both parents. Discouraged from playing the violin, he became intrigued by his instrument after seeing perform with ; he was taught by . Left Detroit, and settled in New York City in April 1957 (then a member of 's group) and led or co-led eight albums by the end of the year for , and . After working with , he joined from 1961 to 1964 when the group functioned as a sextet. Until after he had died, Fuller was thought to have been born in 1934.