Dynasty (subtitled Vol. 2) is a contemporary jazz album released on April 3, 2026 via Cellar Live, credited to Fuller Sound — the duo of sisters Tia Fuller and Shamie Fuller-Royston. The name Fuller Sound carries deep personal resonance: it was the name of the family ensemble founded by their parents, vocalist and mother Elthopia Fuller and bassist and father Fred Fuller, a working band built around shared repertoire and nightly music-making long before either sister launched her individual career. By recording under the Fuller Sound banner for the second time, Tia and Shamie are not simply reviving a name but formalizing a living musical lineage — one rooted in the specific vocabulary of songs, habits, and sensibility their family created together over decades.Recorded as an intimate duo at Klavierhaus in New York on March 21, 2025, the album pairs Tia's alto saxophone and voice with Shamie's piano across ten tracks, running just over 43 minutes. The stripped-down format draws from pieces the family once performed together alongside new compositions written in response to those formative years, including "Windsoar," "Momma Said," "Ode to Bach," "Summer in Central Park," and a closing postlude, "Descend to Barbados." One of the album's most significant gestures is Tia's decision to sing — a new dimension in her recorded work, undertaken as a deliberate tribute to her mother, who passed away in 2022. Produced by Tia herself and executive produced by Cory Weeds, Dynasty is described not as a retrospective or memorial but as a present-tense document: music shaped by family bonds, shared memory, and the ongoing joy of making music together.
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