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Teja has been on the leading edge of New Music composition, performance, and recording technologies with great variety of albums and recording projects to his credit.
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Teja Bell is a guitarist, keyboardist and producer who composes, performs and records a dynamic blend of acoustic and electronic music; his distinctive style covers a wide variety of influences including classical, jazz and rock. Teja has been on the leading edge of New Music composition, performance, and recording technologies with great variety of albums and recording projects to his credit. Petals, Summer Suite and Stellar Voyage (with Dallas Smith), are some of the earlier recordings he has released.
His album Dolphin Smiles (a collaboration with Steven Kindler), has charted in both R & R and Billboard International, and was listed in Billboards 1988 year end "No. 1 Awards" issue as #3 on the "Top Ten Contemporary Jazz Albums" chart. He was also placed among the "Top Ten Contemporary Jazz Artists" of the year, in the same Billboard issue. Teja has a critically acclaimed release entitled "The New Spirit of Christmas" which appeared on the Billboard "New Age" chart. Released in 1997 was Starry Night a steel-string solo guitar recording of original compositions; a duet guitar recording Autumn Leaves with Alex de Grassi (also featuring Paul McCandless on Oboe and English Horn), Twilight Jazz trio.
Teja has been the featured guitar soloist with jazz great Ahmad Jamal, and toured throughout the United States. Currently, he is performing internationally with, Suzanne Ciani and the Wave, The Kate Price Ensemble and the Spencer Brewer Quartet, as well as solo concerts of classical, contemporary and original music.
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