Sisters Tia Fuller and Shamie Fuller-Royston return to the Fuller Sound name on their new album, Dynasty (vol.2)

When sisters Tia Fuller and Shamie Fuller-Royston returned to the Fuller Sound name on their new album, Dynasty -- due out April 3 via Cellar Music Group -- they formalized a musical history that long predates their individual careers.
Fuller Sound was the name of the saxophonist and pianist's original family ensemble, led by their parents, vocalist/ mother Elthopia Fuller and bassist/father Fred Fuller -- a working band built around shared repertoire, performance discipline, and nightly music-making rather than commercial recording projects. Dynasty frames that living history in recorded form for the second time (vol. 2), carrying the family's musical lineage into the present.
Recorded as an intimate duo at Klavierhaus in New York on March 21, 2025, Dynasty pairs Fuller's alto saxophone and voice with Royston-Fuller's piano. The stripped-down setting draws directly from music the family played together for years alongside new compositions written in response to those formative experiences. Following their mother, Elthopia Fuller's passing in 2022, the album also marks a personal shift: Tia's decision to sing, bringing voice into the Fuller Sound language as a continuation of her mother's artistry.

Dynasty follows the Fuller Sound concept with greater focus and clarity. Fuller is a Grammy-nominated alto saxophonist whose album Diamond Cut earned a nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Album and whose career spans leading roles in jazz alongside global touring with Beyoncé.

Shamie, praised by The New York Times as 'a rhythmic vanguardist,' is a composer and educator whose work appears on Terri Lyne Carrington's Grammy-winning album The New Standard and whose commissions and teaching have shaped contemporary jazz practice.

Produced by Tia and executive produced by Cory Weeds, Dynasty is not a retrospective or a memorial. It is a present-tense document -- music shaped by family, shared memory, and a lifetime of making music together.

Track Listing

• Windsoar
• Dooty Baby
• Ode to Bach
• Beatrice
• In This Quiet Place
• Black Viking
• Descend to Barbados (postlude)

Additional Details

Label: Cellar live

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 43:39 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 04/03/26

UPC: 628308831234