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Trzecia płyta dla Mack Avenue Records amerykańskiej saksofonistki Tii Fuller to dobra wiadomość nie tylko dla fanów jazzu, Tia Fuller bardziej znana jako członkini zespołu wokalistki Beyoncé od kilku już lat z powodzeniem realizuje się jao liderka swoich projektów. I nie jest jazzopodobny produkt, świadczą o tym chociażby nazwiska gości zaproszonych do studia, trzykrotna laureatka Grammy® Dianne Reeves, jeden z najbardzej utytułowanych basistaów - John Patitucci i Terri Lyne Carrington, która w 2012 otrzymała Grammy® w kategorii - Best Jazz Vocal Album.
Tia Fuller pełniła rolę asystenta szefa artystycznego koncertowej formacji Esperanzy Spalding's Radio Music Society, te doświadcznia doskonale potrafi wykorzystać w autorskich projektach.
Terri Lyne Carrington w wywiadzie, zapytana o swoja koleżankę powiedziała "Ona gra na saksofonie z charakterystycznym dla mężczyzn rodzajem agresji".

Recenzent JazzTiems napisał o płycie, że łączy w sobie elementy muzyki funk, R&B i gospel i przekuwa to w własny język, nie tracąc nic z postbopowej żarliwości"

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Tia Fuller’s third release on Mack Avenue Records, Angelic Warrior, marks her deep-rooted evolution as an instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. After five years in Beyoncé’s band, the pop diva’s attention to detail in the studio rubbed off on Fuller. She has since developed a heightened focus in the editing, mixing and mastering process of Angelic Warrior, as the producer. And as the Assistant Musical Director for Esperanza Spalding’s Radio Music Society touring band, Fuller applies her pop and jazz chops on behalf of some of the hottest artists in music today.

On Angelic Warrior, Fuller makes an aesthetic statement that’s fully her own. The album celebrates the peaceful demeanor of the ‘angel’ and the drive and determination of the ‘warrior’ spirit within. Fuller says, “While writing this album, I was balancing different aspects in my life and career…trying to pull from the ‘warrior’ energy, while remaining graceful in my spirit. We can all celebrate the Angelic Warrior within ourselves by trusting in our vision, doing the work and maintaining a level of peace.” In addition, Angelic Warrior pays homage to the angels in Fuller’s life: her family and friends. “I wanted to celebrate core individuals who serve as pillars of inspiration,” she says.

A shift in the texture of Fuller’s front-line on Angelic Warrior is further evidence of her expansion as an artist. Instead of sharing the front-line with trumpet, this time it is with John Patitucci on piccolo bass (which can easily be mistaken for guitar).

“It was an exciting challenge for me, because I was expanding upon a new concept to utilize the electric bass as both a melodic and harmonic voice…playing contrapuntal lines with me,” Fuller states. Patitucci’s virtuosity and versatility is heard throughout, such as on “Royston Rumble” where he plays both melody and bass lines.

The piano and drum chairs are held by Fuller’s sister Shamie Royston, and her brother-in-law Rudy Royston respectively, both to whom the first number “Royston’s Rumble” is dedicated. Fuller calls the opening part of the song a “beautiful duel.” She considers them role models because they set an example of work ethic and perseverance in the course of a marriage approaching two decades—“I wanted to celebrate their unconditional love for each other.”

Drummer Ralph Peterson, Jr. is the inspiration for “Ralphie’s Groove,” a sultry song with a sexy beat derived from Peterson’s “Surrender,” itself inspired by a creative synthesis of Ahmad Jamal’s “Poinciana” and Tony Williams’ “Sister Cheryl.”

The album’s third track, “Angelic Warrior” is inspired by elements of Terri Lyne Carrington’s GRAMMY® Award-winning recording, The Mosaic Project and the Beatles’ “Blackbird.” On the title track, the melody line on soprano soars as the drums play a military beat—Fuller “wanted to sonically portray the ‘angel’ in the melody and evolve to the ‘warrior’ element, reflecting the feeling of going to war. On a daily basis, we, as people, deal with so many things that require us to tap into that warrior spirit.” Carrington is the inspiration for this song, “She encompasses the graceful, yet warrior spirit, who has blazed the pathway for many musicians and female instrumentalists,” Fuller says.

Carrington explains, “From playing with great horn players like Wayne Shorter and Stan Getz, I just wanted to help and encourage her. I fell in love with Tia’s playing. She has a lot of respect for the history of the music and has done her homework.”

“Lil’ Les,” composed at the request of Leslie Browder, is a calming song that evokes the innocence of a children’s tune. Fuller conceived it for Browder’s then-unborn child, Lesleigh Marie Browder. “This song was actually the first that I wrote for the album. As a ‘toy playing’ theme for Lesleigh.”
Fuller’s father would call for “Body and Soul” when they’d gig together back in Colorado, her birthplace. “Here I’m paying homage to my mom and dad, the body and soul of the family. I wanted to incorporate a solid bass line to represent my father [bassist Fred Fuller] and feature master vocalist, Dianne Reeves, to celebrate my mother [vocalist Elthopia Fuller]. What a dream come true to have Dianne featured on this arrangement.”

Fuller wrote her originals over a period of five months while on the road. For example, she sang the melody and bass line of “Descend to Barbados” into her voicemail when about to touch down in Barbados. Dedicated to good friend Mimi Jones, Fuller states, “Having come from Barbadian parents, Mimi has ‘Descended from Barbados,’ and serves as the ultimate groove master.”

Structurally, “Ode to Be” is at the midpoint and end of the recording. Musically, she says, it’s “a musical pause, allowing the album to breathe. The title has a dual meaning: an ode to Beyoncé spurred by a song she sang in a dream, and an ode to just ‘being’.”

“So In Love With All of You” is felicitous melding of two Cole Porter compositions. Carrington’s arrangement, reminiscent of Thelonious Monk’s “Evidence,” inspirits the intro to this Porter tribute. The sax, bass and drum trio allows the longtime musical kinship between Carrington and Patitucci (having both played with Wayne Shorter) to be explored further. Fuller improvises on top of Carrington’s cymbals like a surfer riding a wave as Patitucci provides a rhythmic and harmonic seabed.

“Tailor Made” is a rock-out backbeat tune Fuller penned for lifelong friend, Ed Legin. “We always talk about how you have to tailor-make your life for you. He loves R&B from the ‘70s.” What better way to pay nostalgic homage to R&B than with a head-bopping groove inspired by another good friend, Esperanza Spalding and her song “Winter Sun.” The short ballad “Core of Me” is a “celebration of the self, coming to a place of reflection and being comfortable in your own skin. Embracing who you are.” “Simpli-City” begins basic, with sweet swing. Then urban complications enter, thus capturing the “duality: simple vs. complicated.” For “Cherokee,” Carrington’s crafty arrangement grounds the rhythm in a hybrid jungle beat. “Terri Lyne and Rudy were playing simultaneously with this version. Two drummers plus a drum track! Merging the experience of house music meets jazz tradition,” reflects Fuller.

Of Fuller’s saxophone performance, Carrington says: “She plays with the kind of aggression that men do. My dad says, Tia’s a woman playing that horn like it’s supposed to be played. He’s old-school. I understood what he meant.” You will too when hearing the searing bite and intelligence-grounded-in-feeling of Fuller’s alto and soprano sax. On alto, she’s like a warrior—her fire and punch, as well as rhythmic freedom and drive are obvious to listeners. Furthermore, her soulful soprano sax styling is the angelic voice in her sound spectrum.

Fuller’s aesthetic statement on Angelic Warrior is grounded in a jazz mode of expression that embraces both the classic and the contemporary sounds surrounding her. It’s no mistake that artists from Ralph Peterson, Jr. and Esperanza Spalding to Terri Lyne Carrington and Beyoncé include her instrumental voice and vision in their work. With this recording, Tia Fuller surfaces clearly, rising to the top of her generation of musicians. Fusing traditions, styles, and unafraid of genre boundaries, Fuller’s music transgresses the musical frontiers of today, manifest to last well into the future.

JazzTimes:
Angelic Warrior is a veritable almanac of the alto saxophone in contemporary mainstream jazz. Tia Fuller gives her distinctive sound a full and exhilarating workout, with bop (“Cherokee”), Coltrane-esque modal jams (“Royston Rumble”), Caribbean flavor (“Descend to Barbados”), sax-bass-drums trio (“So in Love”) and even vocal accompaniment (“Body and Soul,” featuring Dianne Reeves).

Fuller brings three secret weapons to the mix: a ferocious rhythm section (her sister and brother-in-law, pianist Shamie Royston and drummer Rudy Royston, bassist Mimi Jones and guest Terri Lyne Carrington), bassist John Patitucci, whose guitarlike electric piccolo bass here puts him on the frontline, and her own experience working in poppier realms with the likes of Beyoncé and Esperanza Spalding. The lattermost manifests clearly in the music’s gloss and textures, as on “Ralphie’s Groove” and “Tailor Made.” It also tightens her compositions and arrangements. The melody-harmony integration in “Lil Les” is as solid as it gets, and without being tame: It’s offset by Fuller and her sister trading 16s, progressively upping the rhythmic ante.

Fuller’s sax chops, however, remain the cannon in the arsenal. She has remolded the post-Kenny Garrett alto lineage in her own unique image. Mellow enough to duet with Patitucci on three tunes and with Shamie Royston on two, she also demonstrates tremendous timbral muscle on “Lil Les.” And Fuller shows off her dizzying melodic imagination on “Simpl-City,” and shrewdly navigates “Cherokee”’s changes at a breakneck funk tempo. It’s quite a ride.
By Michael J. West

All About Jazz:
The title of saxophonist Tia Fuller's third album for the Mack Avenue imprint is a bit of an oxymoron, yet it fits her sound so well. Fuller's saxophone work exhibits a bright tone, but her soloing is often full of dark thoughts and her oft-agreeable and positive musical persona belies the fact that she has razor sharp chops that can dig into the auditory canal in powerful and pleasurable ways.

Fuller is constantly at work, but her own music has often been put on the back burner so she can lend her soulful sound to artists like pop star Beyoncé or bassist/vocalist extraordinaire Esperanza Spalding. Thankfully, she took the time to focus on her own music again, fully investing herself in original works on Angelic Warrior. Fuller penned ten of the thirteen tracks for this outing, and each one was built with a solid sense of purpose and passion. The driving "Royston Rumble," which highlights the chemistry between her sister/pianist Shamie Royston and brother-in-law/drummer Rudy Royston starts things off with a bang. Shamie takes a McCoy Tyner-derived, percussive approach to the piano here and Rudy stirs up a storm with his cyclonic drumming. This is the first of five tracks to feature John Patitucci's guitar-like piccolo bass work and his playing is nothing short of remarkable. His dexterous skills on this axe make him a fully capable front line partner for Fuller, and he sounds like a new man as he leaves the bottom end of the sound spectrum behind.

Light Latin underpinnings ("Ralphie's Groove"), slamming, contemporary soul jazz fusion ("Tailor Made"), a bout of slightly mournful elegance ("Core Of Me"), and swing ("Simpli-City") all surface at one time or another as Fuller fully embraces the concept of stylistic variety. She can exhibit poetic grace, as demonstrated on the two "Ode To Be" vignettes, but she can also get down and dirty, as shown during a saxophone-drums-bass three way on a Cole Porter mash-up entitled "So In Love With All Of You." While this standard(s) rewrite proves to be one of the strongest performances on the album, the other two classics included on the playlist don't work quite as well. The rumbling undercarriage of "Cherokee" proves to be too distracting and "Body and Soul," which features vocalist Dianne Reeves, is a little out of place. This harmonically tweaked, neo-soul take on this oft-performed number feels a bit stiff and uncomfortable compared to the other material on this date, it might have worked better as a bonus track.

On the whole, Fuller finds sure-footing and artistic success as she molds all of the elements in the modern jazz melting pot to her liking. She is fierce, friendly, cutting, kind and calculating all at once, Tia Fuller is the angelic warrior of which she speaks.
by Dan Bilawsky

criticaljazz.com:
Move over guys, in the predominantly male dominated role of tenor saxophonist we have a relatively new shooter to the table by the name of Tia Fuller and her latest offering Angelic Warrior set to drop on 09/25/12. To borrow a line from the movie Bull Durham, she announces her presence with authority!

I first took notice of Fuller with her outstanding work on Ralph Peterson's Duality Perspective released earlier this year. Peterson who is known as a jazz warrior and one of the ultimate task masters in music only adds to the credibility of Fuller and her impressive resume. Most people think of a Candy Dulfer or Mindi Abair when they think of a woman playing sax and while both Dulfer and Abair are fine players, Fuller's music is light years ahead of the post modern contemporary "hold music" you find with the previously mentioned smooth jazz players, thus the aptly titled Angelic Warrior.

A somewhat conceptualized personal recording finds Fuller paying homage to family, friends and music mentors such as Ralph Peterson Jr. who is the inspiration for "Ralphie's Groove" a smoldering number with an infectious back beat that is actually a respectful riff on Peterson's "Surrender" which was a most ingenious fusion of Ahmad Jamal's "Poinciana" and the Tony Williams number "Sister Cheryl." Keeping it all in the family we find the opener "Royston's Rumble" as a celebration of the love and admiration of her sister Shamie Royston who plays piano here as well as her brother in law who is the much over looked and under appreciated drummer Rudy Royston who for me as a critic is my musical easy button. A touching celebration of love and family that work in a business well known for being less than accommodating to either. The title track "Angelic Warrior" drawn from the Grammy winning Terri Lyne Carrington recording The Mosaic Project and the seemingly often recorded (as of late) Beatles "Blackbird." The conceptualized idea behind this particular tune is to portray the angel in us all with the beautiful melody but the military style beat infused into the drums as a reminder of the "warrior" element sometimes necessary to push through those time that demand the fight of flight portion of our human nature. Carrington is credited in particular as the inspiration for this tune do largely in part to her dedication that blazed a most significant trail for other female musicians in particular to follow.

The ultimate message if one can call it that is one of balance both in our personal and professional lives. After a five year stint working with Beyonce's band the application of both the pop influence coupled with the seamless transition to and with jazz sensibilities is a thing of beauty. As a player,Fuller plays with a natural aggression more commonly associated with her male contemporaries. Fuller also has the mad skills to work without a harmonic net while maintaining a dynamic lyrical sense of purpose. The aesthetic on Angelic Warrior is that much like I have said before, old school making that transition to new school and doing it oh so well. An individual hybrid of the traditional and contemporary that pushes the music if not her own artistry forward.
by Brent Black
MAC1068

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Wydawca
Mack Avenue Records
Artysta
Tia Fuller
Nazwa
Angelic Warrior
Instrument
alto saxophone
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