Biography
News & Biography
Terje just completed the production of his next CD Urban Vacation. JIMMY HASLIP of the YELLOWJACKETS and JEFF LORBER produced it! They're on all the tracks also. Terje is definitely stoked about it!
He just played the Brea Jazz Festival to big crowds! Very cool!.
Terje now gearing up to and getting ready for the release of the new album in the new year. He can't wait to hear it on the radio in January!
In the meantime, you'll be able to hear samples from the upcoming album within the next few weeks right here at this site.
In the meantime, you can actually buy it already at Terje's live performances!
Biography
True to the title of his high-spirited and eclectic debut album Traveler, saxophonist and singer Terje Lie (“Terry Lee”) has journeyed to and explored many unique places—musically, spiritually and geographically—in his fascinating lifetime.
The versatile musician began his career fronting popular blues bands as a singer during high school, in which capacity he appeared on national TV at seventeen. He was a classical flautist in college and soon after established himself on his native Norwegian music scene singing and playing saxophone with some of the top young musicians there. He was busy with his jazz combos and a contemporary jazz group on the funky side, as well as a fusion group, in Oslo, on the road, and on national radio and TV. He also played sax with rock & roll groups, touring in Norway and Sweden. Settling in L.A. and establishing himself on the Los Angeles music scene, Lie, who explains that “jazz wise I’m a New Yorker, but I love the Southern California lifestyle,” has been in nonstop motion, hopping effortlessly from bebop to contemporary and big band jazz.
Tapping into a wide variety of jazz influences from John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Wayne Shorter to Brazilian jazz, Lie fashions ten tracks on his 2007 album Traveler that speak the vocabulary of an honest-to-goodness straight-ahead jazz approach while also maintaining a contemporary driving groove with the help of three of L.A.’s most exciting first call sidemen: keyboardist David Garfield (longtime musical director for George Benson, whose resume also includes Michael McDonald, Dianne Reeves and Luther Vandross), bassist Ernest Tibbs (Natalie Cole, Gladys Knight, Norman Brown), and drummer Jeff Olson (David Benoit, Earl Klugh).
Instrumentation
Saxophone and Vocals - Terje Lie
Keyboards
Bass
Drums
Discography
Traveler is the latest CD and currently getting national and international airplay both online and via college and contemporary instrumental stations.
Links
| http://www.terjelie.com |