Jazz Articles about Tia Fuller

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Matt Wilson's Good Trouble: Love Is The Whole Thing, We Are Only Pieces

by Pierre Giroux
September 25, 2026

Drummer Matt Wilson has never needed a soapbox to make a point. His drumming has always been open, as if the music has something to say. It makes sense, then, that Wilson has reconvened Good Trouble to continue making good music with good people, which he considers the most effective form of dissent. With Tia Fuller and Anisha Rush on alto saxophones, Jeff Lederer on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Dawn Clement on piano and vocals, and Ben Allison on acoustic ...

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Tia Fuller & Shamie Fuller-Royston: Fuller Sound: Dynasty (Volume 2)

by Jack Bowers
August 6, 2026

On Dynasty, Volume 2, sisters in song Tia Fuller and Shamie Fuller-Royston continue a family musical tradition once shared with their late parents, Fred and Elthopia Fuller as the Fuller Sound. Now it is essentially an alto saxophone (Tia) and piano (Shamie) duo, with Tia adding her voice on two numbers, her own “Momma Said" and Shamie's “In This Quiet Place." Tia is a Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist whose credentials are wide-ranging and well-known. Shamie plays a more classical-oriented ...

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Matt Wilson: Good Trouble

by Jerome Wilson
July 9, 2024

Drummer Matt Wilson continues his tradition of recording humorous and humanistic jazz here with the debut of a new quintet, Good Trouble, which includes both old and new associates. This group has a two-saxophone front line with Wilson's long-time colleague, Jeff Lederer on tenor sax, and Tia Fuller on alto sax. They complement each other well as they blow through the strutting rapture of “Albert's Alley" and the dancing shuffle beat of Ornette Coleman's “Feet Music." The group's ...

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Alba Jazz Festival 2023

by Antonio Baiano
July 13, 2023

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Women in Jazz, Pt. 2: The Girls From Piney Woods

by Karl Ackermann
March 26, 2019

In Part 1 of Women in Jazz we looked at the historical position of women in early jazz. Despite their influence in shaping the art, their talent as composers, arrangers, instrumentalists, and band leaders, women have often been token additions; marginalized window dressing in a male-dominated world. One hundred years after Lil Hardin held the ladder for Louis Armstrong, saxophonist Tia Fuller provides a window into how little things have changed for women in jazz. The composer and ...

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Tia Fuller: Diamond Cut

by Hrayr Attarian
July 11, 2018

The engaging and enjoyable Diamond Cut is saxophonist Tia Fuller's fifth release as a leader and the first without a pianist. Fuller deftly fronts a different rhythm section on each half of the album. The only constant is guitarist Adam Rogers, whose restless, explorative style is the perfect foil for Fuller's ardent, poetic wit. On the opening “In the Trenches" Fuller embellishes the breezy, mellifluous theme with gusto and passion. Rogers follows with a cool, muscular swagger that ...

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Tia Fuller: Angelic Warrior

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 5, 2013

Quarto album da leader per Tia Fuller (il terzo con la Mack Avenue Records, due anni dopo Decisive Steps), la quale ribascisce le sue ottime doti tecniche ed espressive, che la collocano in piena regola tra le più promettenti stelle del firmamento jazz mainstream americano.In Angelic Warrior la saxofonista del Colorado si lascia ampiamente apprezzare nelle tredici tracce proposte -delle quali dieci originali -per via della grande capacità di esprimere concetti melodici complessi servendosi di un approccio allo ...