Gil Fuller

Gil Fuller (actually Walter Gilbert Fuller, born April 14, 1920 in Los Angeles, † 26 May 1994, San Diego ) was an American jazz arranger of the bebop. He worked with Dizzy Gillespie.

Life and work

Gil Fuller studied at New York University, then went back to the West Coast and was arranger for Les Hite 1940-42 and Ray Floyd. With Ray 1938 he came again to New York and later worked for Jimmie Lunceford and Tiny Bradshaw. When Billy Eckstine in 1944 his large orchestra founded, he was the arranger. He also worked at this time for Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Count Basie, Machito and Tito Puente. Later, he helped compile the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band Gillespie, where he became manager and for which he wrote several compositions and arrangements delivered, as for the works Manteca, Swedish Suite or One Bass Hit. He founded after 1957, when he left New York again and settled in his hometown of Los Angeles, his own music publishing, worked as a producer and worked only intermittently as an arranger, as for Stan Kenton in 1955, James Moody or Ray Charles in 1962. 1965 worked it again with Gillespie for his concert at the Monterey Jazz Festival together and organized the Big Band for a European tour.

Fuller made ​​as the main arranger of the bebop decisive contributions to the transfer of modern jazz into großorchestrale sound. His composition " Things To Come " has become distinctly programmatic motto of that time passing through bebop. Dizzy Gillespie praised Fuller in his autobiography: No one can surpass Walter in terms of organization and arrangement.

Discography

  • Benny Carter: The Deluxe Recordings ( Swing Time, 1944)
  • Kenny Clarke Kenny Clarke & His 52nd Street Boys - on: Fats Navarro: The 1946-1949 Small Group Sessions, Vol 1 ( Blue Moon )
  • Dizzy Gillespie: Jazz Gallery (RCA)
  • Dizzy Gillespie: The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra ( Blue Note, 1965)
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