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“Bilobela (The Tea Remix)” is Tea's new single, featuring “The Godfather of Acid Jazz”, Brian Auger on Hammond B3. It also features Cameroonian bassist André Manga (Manu Dibango, Angélique Kidjo) and Nigerian percussionist Remi Kabaka on talking drum and congas (Paul Simon's “Rhythm of the Saints”, multiple Rolling Stones’ live performances, and the only African musician on Paul McCartney’s “Band on the Run” album, heard on “Bluebird”).
Tea’s newest EP features “Solera (Coyote Remix)”, a new Balearic ambient treatment, and includes the original “Solera”, a mix of lounge, chill and electro-groove.
Tea’s previous single “Give You Flowers”, is from the new “Solera” album, a mix of nu-jazz, electro-groove and trip hop.
Also now available is the 20-song CD “Words of the Beat”, a mix of ambient, chill, jazz and lounge, also featuring Neil Larsen on organ, piano, keys and horns.
The CD includes all EPs and singles from Tea’s “Words of the Beat” releases.
It follows “Neon Ferris”, a six-song EP which features three unreleased tracks. “Great Plains - The Bombay Dub Orchestra Darjeeling Mix” is also included.
“Ibiza Redoux”, a single featuring “The Godfather of Acid Jazz”, features famed organist/pianist Brian Auger.
A previous five-song EP “Willows” is a mix of chill, lounge and jazz. “Willows” includes the legendary Neil Larsen on organ and piano.
Tea’s single, “Lisapo (Remix)”, features Congolese vocalist ILO, bassist André Manga and percussionist Remi Kabaka.
“Lisapo” means “fable” in local Congolese pygmy dialect.
Tea's single “Guerrab”, features Moroccan singer Nisrine Andalous in Lyon, France.
Tea is enjoying the opportunity to record with Grammy-nominated keyboardist Neil Larsen. His major sessions and associations include George Harrison, Gregg Allman, Miles Davis, Leonard Cohen, B.B. King, Rickie Lee Jones, Al Jarreau, Elvis Costello and many (many) others.
Tea’s new music includes Larsen on organ, piano and Minimoog, in addition to trumpet, flugelhorn and sax. And piccolo.
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Tea’s third release “Grand Cru” is an electro-pop album with many influences, jazz, lounge and soul, and includes legendary keyboardist and “the godfather of Acid Jazz,” special guest Brian Auger. After producing Auger’s solo album “Language of the Heart”, Tea continued the collaboration.
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Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra at Tea Lounge on July 25th
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Scott Reeves
After years of writing for Dave Liebman's Big Band, the Westchester Jazz Orchestra, Bill Mobley's Smoke Big Band, the BMI Jazz Composers Orchestra and the Cecil's Big Band, trombonist/composer Scott Reeves fronts his own 16-piece jazz orchestra featuring some of the best jazz musicians in New York City. Reeves has forged an original compositional style which All About Jazz describes as “varied and substantial, ranging from hard bop and Latin oriented themes...to French impressionist influences. His arrangements are restless, full ...
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Tea Leaf Green, with Current Album "Radio Tragedy" Brewing, Announces Summer Tour 2011
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Band pays tribute to Clarence Clemons at historic Stone Pony in Asbury Park. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—This past Sunday, Father's Day, Tea Leaf Green performed at the fabled Stone Pony bar and frequent home of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in what became a tribute concert for legendary saxophonist Clarence Clemons. Springsteen and Clemons met at the Asbury Park bar in 1971, a story both men have told onstage for the past 40 years. Clemons, 69, the “Big Man" ...
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Tea Leaf Green Turns Triumph into Redemption with New CD 'Radio Tragedy!", Due out June 7 on Thirty Tigers
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Summer tour kicks off in NYC at Le Poisson Rouge June 17; San Francisco band offers fans chance to win handwritten lyrics SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—It ain't easy being gypsies, especially ones who sing for their supper. San Francisco Bay Area troubadours Tea Leaf Green are newfangled Lost Boys, a traveling gang dedicated to seeking wisdom and experience in places both glorious and seedy. The band's seventh studio album, Radio Tragedy!, will be released through Thirty Tigers available worldwide on June ...
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Ellery Eskelin / John Hebert / Devin Gray at the Tea Lounge on July 30th
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Michael Ricci
Tea Leaf Green | 01.27 | St. Louis
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JamBase
Words & Images by: Neil Salsich
Tea Leaf Green :: 01.27.10 :: Blueberry Hill :: St. Louis, MO
Tea Leaf Green :: 01.27 :: St. Louis, MO Great music has the uncanny ability to make you feel like you are exactly where you are supposed to be. That's its blessing and its curse - the in-the-moment current that sweeps the listener away for a few precious hours and ...
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Jane Ira Bloom Trio at the Tea Lounge on February 6
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
JANE IRA BLOOM TRIO with Bobby Previte & Dean Johnson “Bloom is a jazz wizard" - George Kanzler, Hothouse Bobby Previte “can break your heart with one cymbal crash" --Steve Smith Jane Ira Bloom soprano sax & live electronics Bobby Previte drums Dean Johnson bass SAT, FEBRUARY 6, 8:00 - 10:30pm The Tea Lounge 837 Union Street Park Slope Brooklyn, NY 718-789-2762 tealoungeny.com Subway: Q to ...
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Mike Baggetta Quartet @ Tea Lounge
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Michael Ricci
Thursday, November 19th Tea Lounge Brooklyn, NY www.tealoungeny.com
9pm + 10.30 $5
Mike Baggetta Quartet
Mike Baggetta : Guitar Jason Rigby : Saxophone Eivind Opsvik : Bass George Schuller : Drums
Performing music from “Small Spaces" (Fresh Sound New Talent) and new works.
Guitarist Mike Baggetta is one of his generations most original jazz improvisors and composers. He has performed and/or recorded with Tom Harrell, Conrad ...
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The Bloom Festival at the Tea Lounge Thursday and Friday Nights in June
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
The JVC Jazz Festival is gone, but The Tea Lounge in Park Slope has brewed something strong and new: The Bloom Festival, curated by journalist Lara Pellegrinelli and violist Tanya Kalmanovitch. The two longtime friends had talked time and again about collaborating on various projects and finally thought the timing was right.
“Since George Wein has denied me the possibility of spending $95 to see Chris Botti again,” Kalmanovitch says, “I thought I’d do the next best thing.”
“The economy ...
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Tea Releases Second Album: "Dreams"
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All About Jazz
TEA is the production team of guitarist Franck Balloffet, from Lyon, France, and Southern California drummer-keyboardist Phil Bunch. They are the producers of “Voyages du Jour,” and the new release, Dreams which are both a mixture of French and African original songs. F&P have currently been producing and collaborating with unique vocalists: Congolese vocalists Steve “Ikhaman” Ngondo (previously with Tabu Le Rochereau) and Ilongomo “Elo” Ememe, Marcel Adjibi, vocalist and percussionist from Benin (Manu Dibango, John Densmore), Amadu Sabali from ...
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Dave Allen Quartet at Tea Lounge (NYC) on May 12th
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All About Jazz
May 12th Tea Lounge with Mark Turner - sax Jeff Ballard - drums Chris Lightcap - bass Dave Allen - guitar/compositions 9pm - 12 837 Union St, Brooklyn $5 Cover “Allen has found a true voice, his effortless technique downplays the apparent complexity, paradoxically creating a cool surface sheen that has a white heat glowing beneath it...music that seduces both the body and mind--again and again." --All About Jazz “An exciting and unique player in the mold of ...
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From Six Degrees Records President Bob Duskis:
A few months ago I received through the magic of E mail, the latest album from a duo who call themselves TEA. Mixing soul, house and jazz with African flavors, Tea is the brainchild of guitarist Franck Balloffet, from Lyon, France, and Southern California drummer/keyboardist Phil Bunch. Franck & Phil first met as members of Los Angeles’ premier African band, Bateke Beat, which featured multi-instrumentalist Fidel Bateke, formerly of Fela Kuti’s ensemble from Nigeria. The group's second record, Dreams, rises to the challenge of fusing lots of different influences while maintaining a distinct personality all its own. The entire record is so lovely and soulful that it is almost balearic at times, (Legendary keyboardist Brian Auger even guests on the album!). I must say that I find the project's overt melodicism quite refreshing in these days of distorted drums, acid synths and massive, squelchy bass (not that there's anything wrong with that- but sometimes a guy needs a little melody in his global fusions) The duo have generously allowed us to share a track with you today, so if you like what you hear, be sure to explore further.
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