Home » Jazz Musicians » Tea
Tea
After producing Auger’s recent solo album “Language of the Heart,” Tea has continued the collaboration.
“Brian has been a big inspiration in the development of the songs of the new album, the color and energy…his sound is a signature and we think it fits well in Tea’s world.”
The 11-song release features Sabrina Williams, a soul singer and poet in Los Angeles and Inès Murer, an Austrian-Belgian singer/songwriter living in France.
Tea is all about groove and atmosphere, a mix of dreams and travels, a multi-cultural crossroad.
Tea’s second album is “Dreams.” Their first release is “Voyages du Jour.”
Guitarist Franck Balloffet, from Lyon, France, and Southern California drummer/keyboardist Phil Bunch first met as members of Los Angeles’ premier African band, Bateke Beat, featuring multi-instrumentalist Fidel Bateke, formerly of Fela Kuti’s ensemble from Nigeria. The group was the house band at the legendary L.A. club Flaming Colossus, as well as Malibu’s Adobe.
In the early ‘90s F&P departed Bateke Beat to lead the soul-afrobeat Orchestra Shegemo and Savwa, which included saxophonist Ravi Coltrane and vocalist Sharlotte Gibson, for years a singer with Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and Chaka Khan. They emerged as the house band at infamous L.A. venues Po Na Na Souk and Bokaos.
F&P then explored a different style of music along with singer-songwriter Richard Clayton and bassist Bill Bowman, releasing three pop-rock albums as never never band.
F&P has produced and collaborated 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 Senegal and American multi-lingual vocalists Chana (Tambu International Ensemble) and Suyen Mosely.
Personnel on “Dreams” include Brian Auger (Steampacket, Brian Auger’s Trinity, Oblivion Express) playing Hammond B3 and Fender-Rhodes. Nigeria’s Remi Kabaka (guest percussionist on the Rolling Stones’ Winter 2002 West Coast tour, and the only African musician on Paul McCartney’s “Band On The Run” album) is featured on talking drum and percussion. Bassists André Manga, from Cameroon (Angelique Kidjo, Manu Dibango, Josh Groban) and Bobby Tsukamoto (Neil Larsen, Michael Landau) are also included, as well as Cameroonian EMI studio guitarist Louis Wasson, saxophonists Randall Willis (Gerald Wilson, B Sharp Quartet) and Bobby English (Lou Rawls, the Spinners), as well as Frederic Meschin on trumpet, and Chris Darrow (Kaleidoscope, James Taylor) on slide guitar.
Tags
SF Bay Area Trumpeter-Composer Ian Carey Pays Homage To His Late Artist Father On 'Strange Arts,' To Be Released March 22 On Slow & Steady Records
Source:
Terri Hinte Publicity
Ian Carey extends his oeuvre of unique, ambitious chamber jazz with Strange Arts, set for a March 22 release on Slow & Steady Records. Carey’s seventh album is also the Bay Area trumpeter-composer’s first with his septet Wood Metal Plastic, which augments a working quartet—featuring alto saxophonist Kasey Knudsen, bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, and drummer Jon Arkin—with the free-wheeling string trio of cellist Jessica Ivry and violinists Alisa Rose and Mia Bella d’Augelli, resulting in a nimble unit that brings together ...
read more
Acclaimed Canadian Jazz Drummer Samuel Bolduc Teams Up With Grammy Nominated American Saxophonist Stacy Dillard
Source:
All About Jazz
Grammy-nominated saxophonist Stacy Dillard is thrilled to announce a new collaboration with an acclaimed Canadian drummer, composer, and music director Samuel Bolduc. Discovered by Wynton Marsalis and acclaimed by The New York Times, Dillard, 46, who was nominated for the Grammy Award in 2023, is a perfect example of the fusing of tradition and innovation. A drumming prodigy Bolduc, 25, who has dominated Canadian music scene for a decade since leading his own band Disconnected Blind to the national Emergenza ...
read more
Guitarist/Composer Ryan Meagher Unveils A Unique Blend Of Sound And Vision On 'Aftearth,' Set For May 19 Release By Atroefy Records
Source:
Terri Hinte Publicity
Guitarist/composer Ryan Meagher explores postapocalyptic soundscapes—and imagery—on the scintillating AftEarth, set for a May 19 release on Atroefy Records. On one level a quartet recording—with Portland, Oregon-based saxophonist Tim Willcox, bassist Andrew Jones, and drummer Charlie Doggett delving into 11 Meagher compositions (and a jazz setting of a Felix Mendelssohn composition)—it is also a collaboration with visual artist Tina Granzo, whose lonesome, haunting pen-and-ink images form the album’s packaging. Though largely created in the shadow of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, ...
read more
New Book Teaches Newcomers How To Listen To Jazz
Source:
All About Jazz
“Lots of people want to listen to jazz, but they don’t know where to start,” says Mark Barnett, author of Getting Into Jazz, a new book from Canoe Tree Press that offers lively tips on how to listen, along with step-by-step guides through some classic jazz CDs featuring such artists as Louis Armstrong, Stan Getz and Chet Baker. Dipping your toe “With so many artists available on so many albums, it’s like a vast swimming pool out there,” says Barnett, ...
read more
Terry Teachout (1956-2022)
Source:
JazzWax by Marc Myers
Yesterday afternoon, my literary agent called with terrible news. Terry Teachout had died hours earlier. I had to sit down. I couldn't believe it. My agent also was Terry's agent. In fact, Terry was the one who had introduced us years earlier at a book party. Now Terry was gone at age 65. For those unfamiliar with Terry, he was the drama critic for The Wall Street Journal and a tireless essayist who cranked out gorgeous pieces on the arts—high ...
read more
Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae Music
Source:
JazzWax by Marc Myers
You're in for a pre-Thanksgiving treat. Yesterday, I posted on a 1964 Jamaican mini documentary on ska, the island's dominant dance music of the early 1960s. Today. I found a high-resolution print of Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae Music (2009). It followed ska by slowing ska down and adding a soulful groove in the mid-1960s, setting the stage for reggae's political-themed emergence in the early 1970s. I love rocksteady. It's soft, gentle and hypnotic. And I love rocksteady covers of ...
read more
Drummer Paul Mullikin Presents Orchestral Quintet Musician-Teacher-Composer
Source:
Scott Thompson Public Relations
Multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator Paul Mullikin was born into a musical family and realized at an early age that music was his calling. Following a 2019 residency at Denver’s Nocturne Club, drummer Paul Mullikin hit the studio with his Orchestral Quintet. With the help of a “Pathways to Jazz" grant, the group was able to capture the unique sound they had been crafting—an eclectic set of Classical works, presented through the lens of improvisation and modern jazz. These timeless works ...
read more
Jazz Piano Legend Terry Waldo Teams Up With Jazz Vocal Sensation Tatiana Eva-Marie In New Single And Album
Source:
EMPKT PR
As the saying goes, two heads are better than one. Legendary jazz pianist, composer and historian Terry Waldo, and internationally renowned jazz vocalist Tatiana Eva-Marie demonstrate their musical synergy in their latest single, “I Double Dare You,” their lively take on the 1937 classic jazz song by Terry Shand and Jimmy Eaton. The single, which is out now, is from the dynamic duo’s new album, I Double Dare You, an eclectic compilation of jazz-pop songs from the ‘20s and ‘30s. ...
read more
Bob Holz Releases Live Album With Former Members Of Spyro Gyra And Blood Sweat And Tears
Source:
Two for the Show Media
Jazz fusion artist Bob Holz is back with a power house live album featuring a star studded lineup of high profile players. The title is Bob Holz Live In New York and L.A. and was released on MVD Audio in early 2021. This album matches up top flight instrumental and vocal performances as Bob Holz covers some of the great jazz classics combined with his own original compositions. Bob Holz has established himself as a world class drummer and composer ...
read more
Singapore Pianist Jeremy Monteiro Teams With Jay Anderson And Lewis Nash For 'Live At No Black Tie'
Source:
Mouthpiece Music
Pianist Jeremy Monteiro considers himself a very fortunate man. Renowned as one of the premier jazz pianists in Singapore, he is presently entering the 45th year of a career spanning concerts, education, and music administration. He has played and recorded with many of the world’s greatest jazz artists, including James Moody, Benny Golson, Michael Brecker, Bobby McFerrin, Randy Brecker, Lee Ritenour, Herbie Mann, Paulinho DaCosta, Ernie Watts, Charlie Haden, Terumasa Hino, Al Foster, Carmen Bradford, and Toots Thielemans. In the ...
read more
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
Photos
Music
Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
Trapeze
From: Grand CruBy Tea
