New Standards Jazz Crawl: Tia Fuller

In celebration of the opening of a new performance space in Midtown Detroit’s Carr Center, the DIA will participate in New Standards Jazz Crawl, a series of performances by women composers curated by Terri Lyne Carrington.

When Grammy-nominated recording artist, composer, and bandleader Tia Fuller picks up her saxophone, amazing things happen. Blending technical brilliance, melodic creativity, and the performing precision drawn from both her academic and stage experience, Fuller is a force within the worlds of jazz, pop and R&B, and balances the roles of a touring and recording artist with that of a full-time professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

An accomplished solo artist, she has recorded five full-length projects with her quartet, and her most recent album Diamond Cut, produced by Terri Lyne Carrington, received a Grammy nomination in the Best Instrumental Jazz category.  Fuller can be seen touring regularly with several bands. She has appeared with Carrington to perform her Grammy-winning Mosaic Project and Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue; served as assistant musical director for Esperanza Spalding’s Radio Music Society tour, and recorded and toured with Dianne Reeves for her Grammy-winning Beautiful Life album.