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Instrument: Vocals

Live Review

Elizabeth Kontomanou at Tanjazz Festival 2013

by Mehdi El Mouden
October 4, 2013

Elizabeth Kontomanou Tanjazz Festival Palais des Institutions Italiennes Tangier, Morocco September 21, 2013 Females have always held an important position in the jazz world, especially as singers. Since the demise of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and some unforgettable female voices, other singers have arisen vying for attention, willing to keep the tradition of the word in jazz and the worldess sound as well. One of those staunch perpetuators is vocalist Elizabeth Kontomanou. ...

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Album Review

Elizabeth Kontomanou: Embrace

by AAJ Staff
July 6, 2002

Elizabeth Kontomanou, as the daughter of a Greek mother and an African father who herself hails from Paris, is a relatively new vocal talent in the music whose cosmopolitan heritage belies her own particular take on the music. Elizabeth Kontomanou is decidely a multiculturalist, one who sees it fit to adopt all of those musical elements from different cultural traditions toward the creation of a unified aesthetic. In her own words, she takes the music of John Coltrane and all ...