Tia Fuller

Composer, arranger, and bandleader Tia Fuller wears a complete of six hats in her profession in traditional jazz, because she’s also an alto saxophonist, a soprano saxophonist, along with a flautist. Fuller is normally surely among the most popular youthful lionesses to arrive in traditional jazz within the last 10 years. Based in Shirt City, NJ, she’s two albums out under her very own name, both for the Mack Avenue Jazz label. Apart from being a main talent who’s over the costs at esteemed jazz celebrations, she’s as academically gifted as she actually is a talented musician. Fuller’s jazz-based lifestyle is the consequence of her arts-filled youth. She grew up by two instructors through the Denver public college area. She credits her parents, Fred, a bassist, and Elthopia, a vocalist, with providing her an intensive grounding in jazz from a age. While we were young, she paid attention to music by Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane, and started her music tests by acquiring traditional piano lessons at age group three. She researched piano for a decade but started playing flute like a nine-year-old, as well as the saxophone soon thereafter, while still in middle college. By 1998, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from Spelman University in Atlanta, where she researched with saxophonist Joe Jennings, making her B.A. in Music. She later on graduated Summa Cum Laude through the College or university of Colorado, Boulder, having a Master’s in Music, Jazz Pedagogy, and Efficiency in 2000. Like all great jazz music artists who insist upon continually demanding themselves, she shifted to Shirt City, five kilometers through the jazz capital of the globe, Manhattan. Her timing had not been probably the most fortuitous; she found its way to Shirt City on Sept 9, 2001, two times before Lower Manhattan’s Globe Trade Middle was attacked by terrorists. She produced the best of these bleak, depressing weeks, nevertheless, so when jazz night clubs slowly started to fill up once again by early November of this year, she discovered herself seated in at different nightclubs around Manhattan. Fuller performed and documented with a few of jazz’s well-known fittings, like the Duke Ellington Big Music group, T.S. Monk, Don Byron, Wycliffe Gordon, Mickey Roker, Ralph Peterson, Jon Faddis, Rufus Reid, Jimmy Heath, Gerald Wilson, Charlie Persip, Don Braden, and Nancy Wilson. After many years of playing night clubs like Birdland in Manhattan with her personal rings, in mid-June, 2006 she was employed by the vocalist Beyoncé to become listed on her touring music group. Since that time, Fuller has followed Beyoncé on many U.S. and Western tours. Being on the highway has trained Fuller to even more completely enjoy the artistry and independence jazz musicians have got. She’s also discovered to understand her viewers, whether an world of 16,000 with Beyoncé or a romantic market of 60 in another of north New Jersey’s smaller sized jazz night clubs. When not on the highway or leading her very own group, Fuller conducts treatment centers and professional classes at middle academic institutions, high academic institutions, and schools. She’s executed these classes on the Jazz Institute of NJ, Aurora, Colorado Community Academic institutions, the Mile Great Jazz Camp, the School of Colorado at Boulder, the Stanford Jazz Workshop, Drexel School, Montclair State School, and New Mexico Condition School. In 2005, Fuller released her initial record ever with Pillar of Power. Her indie discharge caught the eye of professionals at Mack Avenue Information, who then agreed upon her. Her debut for Mack Avenue Information, Healing Space, premiered in 2007. Decisive Techniques, released in the springtime of 2010, is normally Fuller’s sophomore discharge for Mack Avenue Information. She’s associated with drummer Kim Thompson, bassist Miriam Sullivan, her sister, Shamie Royston on piano and keyboards, and particular guests, bassist Christian McBride, trumpeter Sean Jones, vibraphonist Warren Wolf, and touch dancer Maurice Chestnut. She celebrated with some record release celebrations in Western world Orange, Newark, and Trenton, NJ, in addition to back in Denver with Dizzy’s Membership Coca-Cola at New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Middle. On Decisive Techniques, Fuller and firm breathe new lease of life into two specifications, “I CANNOT BEGIN,” and “My Glowing Hour,” and bassist Christian McBride provides a new sizing to “I CANNOT BEGIN.”