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Gil Fuller

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Listen to A Night In Tunisia: Things to Come by Alice Roberts, Alton Moore, Dave Burns, Dizzy Gillespie, Elmon Wright, Gil Fuller, Gordon Thomas, Howard Johnson, James Moody, John Lewis, John Lynch, Kenny Clarke, Kenny Dorham, Leo Parker, Leon Comenge, Milt Jackson, Ray Abrams, Ray Brown, Sonny Stitt, Talib Daawud, Warren Lucky & Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra, see lyrics, music video & more!
A Night In Tunisia: Things to ComeAlice Roberts, Alton Moore, Dave Burns, Dizzy Gillespie, Elmon Wright, Gil Fuller, Gordon Thomas, Howard Johnson, James Moody, John Lewis, John Lynch, Kenny Clarke, Kenny Dorham, Leo Parker, Leon Comenge, Milt Jackson, Ray Abrams, Ray Brown, Sonny Stitt, Talib Daawud, Warren Lucky & Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra
Listen to Be's That Way (feat. Dizzy Gillespie) by Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring Dizzy Gillespie, see lyrics, music video & more!
Be's That Way (feat. Dizzy Gillespie)Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring Dizzy Gillespie
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17 Mile Drive (feat. Dizzy Gillespie)Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring James Moody
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Things Are Here (feat. Dizzy Gillespie)Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring Dizzy Gillespie
Listen to Jelly, Jelly by Ohio MEA 2006 Westerville South HS Jazz Orchestra, Todd A Stoll & Gil Fuller, see lyrics, music video & more!
Jelly, JellyOhio MEA 2006 Westerville South HS Jazz Orchestra, Todd A Stoll & Gil Fuller
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Wild Chestnuts (feat. Dizzy Gillespie)Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring James Moody
Listen to Sweets for My Sweet (feat. Dizzy Gillespie) by Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring James Moody, see lyrics, music video & more!
Sweets for My Sweet (feat. Dizzy Gillespie)Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring James Moody
Listen to Blues for a Debutante (feat. Dizzy Gillespie) by Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring James Moody, see lyrics, music video & more!
Blues for a Debutante (feat. Dizzy Gillespie)Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring James Moody
Listen to Latin Lady (From Angel City Suite) [feat. Dizzy Gillespie] by Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring James Moody, see lyrics, music video & more!
Latin Lady (From Angel City Suite) [feat. Dizzy Gillespie]Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring James Moody

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Listen to Dizzy Gillespie & James Moody (With Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra) by Gil Fuller & Monterey Jazz Festival
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About Gil Fuller

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Hometown
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Born
April 14, 1920
Genre
Jazz
A composer can be typecast based on one aspect of their work, just as surely as an actor can wind up getting offered nothing but villain roles. A good example is Gil Fuller, whose real name was Walter Fuller but should not be confused with the older jazz trumpeter and vocalist with the same name. Fuller was identified as a bebop man thanks to a wildly successful relationship with trumpeter, bandleader and sometimes vocalist Dizzy Gillespie that included trademark recordings, including the exciting "Manteca" and "One Bass Hit". The career that eventually led to film music, collaborating with Ray Charles and the establishment of something along the lines of a stock arrangement factory began in the years prior to the second World War. Bandleaders such as Les Hite, Jimmie Lunceford and Tiny Bradshaw were the first that seemed as if they couldn't get their fill of Fuller. The situation continued improving for him after the war when he was literally writing for all the major big bands at one time out of a New York City home base. Tadd Dameron, Gil Evans and George Russell were the other major jazz figures with whom he shared the distinction of being the first to compose big band charts in the bebop style. Eventually Fuller established his own publishing company, a natural outlet when he branched out into writing texts about his music, including an analytical discussion of his arrangement methods. Under his own name he created an album entitled The Scene Changes and by actually incorporating his own name he composed a whimsical portrait of his brush with fame, "Fuller Bop Man". In the '60s he was once again associated with modernistic jazz, this time going back to writing for Stan Kenton, with whom he had first worked in 1955. One of Kenton's more interesting projects in this later period was the so-called "neophonic band" in which Fuller's old chum Gillespie appeared as soloist. The latter artist's autobiography entitled To Be Or Not To Bop features no small amount of anecdotes told by Fuller. ~ Eugene Chadbourne

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