Bob Fuller

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Bob Fuller (born December 31, 1898 in New York City ; † unknown) was an American blues and jazz musician ( clarinet , alto and tenor saxophone , composition ).

Live and act

Fuller played in the early 1920s in Mamie Smith's backing band , the Jazz Hounds ("Mean Daddy Blues", 1922), with whom he toured. From 1924 he worked as a session musician ( Choo Choo Jazzers ) for producer Joe Davis . During this decade he was mainly involved in the recordings of blues vocalists Virginia Liston , Helen Gross , Hazel Meyers , Rosa Henderson , Josie Miles and Monette Moore , as well as with George McClennon . He played u. a. with Porter Grainger , Charlie Irvis , Cliff Jackson , Louis Metcalf , Bubber Miley and Clarence Williams .

From the beginning of 1925, Fuller recorded in a trio with the banjo player Elmer Snowden and the Canadian pianist Louis Hooper for Ajax and Banner under his own name (including "Spread Yo 'Stuff" and "Crossword Puzzle Blues"); further recordings of the trio were made in 1925/26 under various band names such as Three Jolly Jokers for Vocalion ("Charleston Clarinet Blues"), Three Hot Eskimos for Pathé ("Black Cat Blues"), Three Blues Chasers for Okeh ("Lame Duck Blues") , Three Monkey Chasers for Harmony ("Corn Bread Wiggle"), The Pennsylvania Syncopators for NML ("Dancin 'the Blues") and, under Bob Fuller's name for Brunswick (" Dallas Blues "), Gennett ("Freakish Blues") and Columbia ("Grand Opera Blues"). Fuller also released several records under the pseudonyms Slim Perkins and Slim Jenkins . Fuller and Hooper wrote the material for many of the joint recordings, including titles like "Uncle Remus Blues".

In the second half of the 1920s, Fuller also worked with Bessie Smith ("Nobody's Blues But Mine" / "I Ain't Got Nobody"), Clara Smith , Maggie Jones , Viola McCoy , Buddy Christian , Mamie Smith, Thomas Morris (as New Orleans Blue Five ), Margaret Johnson , Louis Metcalf (as Original Jazz Hounds ) and Lizzy Miles . In the field of jazz he was involved in 142 recording sessions between 1923 and 1928. Fuller also played in Fats Waller's combo Six Hot Babies during this period . In the late 1920s, he led his own dance band that performed at New York's 125th Street Dance Hall . In later years he left the music business and worked in the New York Police Department .

Discographic notes

  • Rare and Hot! 1923–26 Female Vocals with Accompaniment (Historical Records, ed. 1967), with Monette Moore, Hazel Meyers, Rosa Henderson, Lillian Goodner,

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 25, 2014)
  2. ↑ In Germany, "Desert Blues" was released on the Homocord label (4-2204) under the name of this formation around Bob Fuller.
personal data
SURNAME Fuller, Bob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 20th century