Curtis Fowlkes
Curtis Fowlkes is an American jazz trombonist and singer. He is a founding member of The Jazz Passengers.Career
In 1987, Fowlkes started The Jazz Passengers with saxophonist Roy Nathanson. He has also been a member of The Lounge Lizards, the Kansas City All-Stars, and a quartet led by jazz guitarist Bill Frisell. He has toured with Charlie Haden's Liberation Orchestra and the Duke Ellington Orchestra when it was led by drummer Louis Bellson. He released his debut solo album in 1999.Discography
As leader
With The Jazz Passengers
With The Lounge Lizards
- Big Heart: Live in Tokyo
- No Pain for Cakes
- Voice of Chunk
As sideman
With Don Byron
- Nu Blaxploitation
- You Are #6
- Do the Boomerang
With Bill Frisell
- Quartet
- This Land
- Blues Dream
- Unspeakable
With Glen Hansard
- Didn't He Ramble
- A Season On the Line
- Between Two Shores
- This Wild Willing
With Charlie Hunter
With John Lurie
With Roy Nathanson
- Broken Night Red Light with Roy Nathanson,
- Deranged and Decomposed with Roy Nathanson
- Camp Stories
- Fire at Keaton's Bar & Grill
- Sotto Voce
- Subway Moon
- Nearness and You
- Complicated Day
With Marc Ribot
- YRU Still Here?
- Rootless Cosmopolitans
- Shoe String Symphonettes
With Elliott Sharp
- Forgery
- Spectropia Suite
- Sky Road Songs
With others
- Horace Andy, Fresh
- Eszter Balint, Flicker
- Samm Bennett, The Big Off
- Steven Bernstein, MTO Plays Sly
- Brass Construction, Brass Construction II
- Henry Butler, Viper's Drag
- Thomas Chapin, Insomnia
- Elvis Costello The Sweetest Punch
- Elvis Costello, When I Was Cruel
- Sheryl Crow, Sheryl Crow
- Will Downing, Moods
- Marty Ehrlich, A Trumpet in the Morning
- Oran Etkin, Wake Up Clarinet!
- Oran Etkin, Gathering Light
- Charlie Haden, Not in Our Name
- Charlie Haden, Time/Life
- Gunter Hampel, Fresh Heat: Live at Sweet Basil
- Joel Harrison, Infinite Possibility
- Levon Helm, It's Showtime
- Paul Hemmings, The Blues and the Abstract
- Colm Mac Con Iomaire, And Now the Weather
- Iron and Wine, Ghost On Ghost
- Freedy Johnston, Blue Days Black Nights
- Brad Jones, Uncivilized Poise
- King Short Shirt, Press On
- Billy Martin, Heels Over Head
- Cibo Matto, Super Relax
- Bobby Previte, Counterclockwise
- Jeb Loy Nichols, As the Rain
- Jeb Loy Nichols, Lovers Knot
- Lou Reed, Berlin
- Lou Reed, Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse
- Max Romeo, Freedom Street
- Harry Shearer, It Must Have Been Something I Said
- Andy Summers, Peggy's Blue Skylight
- Henry Threadgill, Spirit of Nuff...Nuff
- Kazutoki Umezu, Eclecticism
- Dan Zanes, Catch That Train
- John Zorn, John Zorn's Cobra Live at the Knitting Factory