Walter Fuller

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Walter Fuller (around 1947)

Walter Fuller (born April 15, 1910 in Dyersburg , Tennessee , † April 20, 2003 in San Diego ) was an American jazz musician ( trumpet , vocals ).

Fuller was the son of a circus musician who gave him lessons on the mellophone before switching to the trumpet and - influenced by Louis Armstrong's trumpet playing - began performing as a professional musician in Chicago as a teenager. He played in Medicine Shows , a few years later with Sammy Stewart, with whom he stayed until 1930. In Chicago he worked with Irene Eadie and Her Vogue Vagabonds, finally from 1932 as a trumpeter with Earl Hines , in whose orchestra he also occasionally acted as a singer, as in "Oh! ° You Sweet Thing" (1932), "Rosetta" (1933 ), "We Found Romance" (1934), "After All (I've Been to You)" (1939) and "You Can Depend On Me" (1940). He also recorded with Jimmy Mundy (" Ain't Misbehavin ' ", 1937) and Lionel Hampton , and he also played briefly with Horace Henderson . After leaving Hines in 1940, he led his own big band, with which he had engagements in Chicago's Grand Terrace Ballroom and in the Radio Room in Los Angeles. In the late 1940s, Fuller et al. a. with saxophonist Gene Porter in California on several records such as “Closer to My Heart” under his own name, for local labels such as Atlas, Kicks and Miltone. In the field of jazz he was involved in 19 recording sessions between 1932 and 1948. In the years after 1944, Fuller was mainly active in the music scene in San Diego , performed with his own big band at the Club Royal and was involved in the local civil rights movement against racism in the music business. From 1952 he was the first African American chairman of the local musicians' union.

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  1. ↑ a b Obituary in the LA Times
  2. ↑ After a few months, he was kicked out of the program under pressure from the local musicians' union because the manager Fox had not paid the union dues. See Richard Hadlock: Jazz Masters of the Twenties . Da Capo Press, 1965, p. 66
  3. ^ The Blues Encyclopedia , edited by Edward Komara, Peter Lee. 2004, p. 36
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 11, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Fuller, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trumpet, vocals)
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dyersburg , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2003
Place of death San Diego