About Jeff Fuller

Jazz Bass

Jeff Fuller is a jazz bassist with an impressive list of credentials. He has toured worldwide and recorded with master saxophonists Lou Donaldson and Paquito D'Rivera, with each of whom he recorded three albums. Fuller's swing and big bass sound, combined with his versatility, enable him to blend with jazz artists from all styles and eras. He has appeared with such diverse artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Mose Allison, Scott Hamilton, "Papa" Jo Jones, Gerry Mulligan, Randy Brecker, Larry Coryell, and "Big Nick" Nicholas.

Latin/Jazz

Besides jazz, Fuller has gained wide experience in Latin music, both Afro-Cuban and Brazilian. He has toured with the Hilton Ruiz group, Daniel Ponce's Jazzbatá, Mario Rivera's Refugiados de Salsa, and Puerto Rican singer Roy Brown. He composed and arranged for the top salsa group, Irazú, whose four albums have featured soloists Arturo Sandoval and Tata Güines. His Latin big band and combo arrangements are frequently performed and sold world-wide. He also plays and sings with the popular Hartford CT group, Samba Brasil, winner of the "Best Latin" category in the Hartford Advocate Reader’s Poll in 1999 - 2000, 2003 - 2005.

Music Education/Composition

A native son of Connecticut, Fuller holds a master's degree in Composition from Yale University, and is widely respected as a teacher and clinician. Since 1996 he has taught Composition at the Educational Center for the Arts (ECA), an area magnet high school in New Haven. He has been commissioned to write several orchestral suites and jazz arangements for ECA and for the New Haven Symphony. He has been the recipient of music composition grants from many sources including ECA, Florida International University, Meet The Composer, The New Haven Symphony, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Please visit "A Composer's Journey", a blog on Fuller's recent composing trials and tribulations. It contains a personal history and philosophical viewpoint on what it takes to TRY to be a composer today.