Results for "Lucy Yeghiazaryan"

Musician

Lucy Yeghiazaryan

As a young immigrant who has brought the real richness of her heritage together with her love for what is truly American, Lucy beautifully sounds out the best expression of the American dream. Amid the cacophony of voices raging over immigration, this jazz vocalist sounds a very refreshing note. Since arriving from Armenia sixteen years ago at age 12, Lucy has enriched American jazz with a voice that is clear and strong, and with the release of her debut album Blue Heaven (Cellar Live Records 2019) critics and musicians agree that a new vocal force has arrived on the scene. Lucy Yeghiazaryan grew up in post-Soviet Armenia and began playing the violin at the age of seven, when she also discovered her father's once-contraband collection of jazz records

Album

Hey Love!

By Lucy Yeghiazaryan

Label: La Reserve
Released: 2026
Track listing: Next Spring; Hey Love! / I Thought About You; Tonight I Shall Sleep With A Smile on my Face; Blow Top Blues; Love is a Simple Thing; Witchcraft; Lover Man; Loads of Love; Come Dance with Me; Dedicated to You.

Album

A Blue Time

By Joe Syrian

Label: Circle 9 Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Jordu; Agua De Beber; Teach Me Tonight; Norwegian Wood; Black Magic Woman; Charade; Blue Bossa; Nature Boy; Sway; A Blue Time.

Video

People Will Say We're in Love

Featuring the music of Lucy Yeghiazaryan
Duration: 7:23
October 25, 2026

The AAJ community is great at uncovering emerging performers. Here, credit goes to R.J. DeLuke for interviewing Lucy Yeghiazaryan: Serious And Seriously Talented and capturing her story of learning jazz as a child in Armenia and carving out her mark based in the New York City metro area. Ultimately, listening is all the proof one needs of her joyful, swinging talents. Here, she covers a “classic’s classic” -- “People Will Say They’re in Love,” from the Broadway smash musical, Oklahoma! Her assertive, lower alto voice, elastic phrasing and talk-sung interjections are simply mesmerizing. Dare one say, her styling would be apropos if it were translated to Louis Armstrong’s horn. As a special treat, Emmet Cohen and Benny Benack III deliver masterful multi-chorus solos on piano and trumpet, respectively. Emmet also brings along top-of-the-line session bassist Mark Lewandowski and drummer Joe Farnsworth. To concentrate on Yeghiazaryan’s vocals, begin with the first chorus, followed by trading 4’s at 4:55 and the out chorus at 5:55. Want more? For a lovely ballad, search YouTube for Yeghiazaryan’s intimate “Isn’t It a Pity?” on which she is accompanied by the delicate Rossano Sportiello.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Nora Germain, Kelly Green, Dena DeRose, Greg Farnese, Carmen Lundy, Sounds of April & Randall & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 31, 2026

This broadcast celebrates two legendary foremothers who contributed timeless lyrics to the Great American Songbook--Dorothy Parker and Carolyn Leigh, along with new music from Nora Germain, Kelly Green, Dena DeRose, Greg Farnese, Carmen Lundy, Sounds of April & Randall, plus birthday shoutouts to Nora Germain, Amy Engelhardt, Cecilia Smith, Naomi Moon Siegel, Kay Kostopoulos, among others. ...

Article: Interview

Lucy Yeghiazaryan: Serious And Seriously Talented

by R.J. DeLuke
July 31, 2026

Lucy Yeghiazaryan is one of the most compelling jazz vocalists to emerge in recent years. Especially in New York, where she regularly performs in the city's jazz clubs, audiences have been drawn to her rich, powerful tone and her ability to bring an enchanting emotional depth to every lyric. Those qualities, along with her ...

Article: Album Review

Lucy Yeghiazaryan: Hey Love!

by Pierre Giroux
June 29, 2026

It is always a treat to hear a singer who trusts the song. On Hey Love!, recorded at Van Gelder Studios in October 2025, Lucy Yeghiazaryan takes the direct route, usually the most forgiving. There are no conceptual detours here, no attempts to modernize the Great American Songbook by dismantling it. Instead, Yeghiazaryan takes control of ...

Article: Album Review

Lucy Yeghiazaryan: Hey Love!

by Katchie Cartwright
June 19, 2026

The excellent New York-based singer Lucy Yeghiazaryan and her stellar band may have you thinking back to Carmen McRae in the 1950s as you listen to Hey Love!--groups with Wendell Marshall, Kenny Clarke, and other hard bop-era musicians. On her 2026 release, Yeghiazaryan has the ubiquitous Peter Washington on bass and Kenny Washington on drums, with ...

Article: Album Review

Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet: A Blue Time

by Jack Bowers
June 10, 2026

Drummer Joe Syrian's spit-shined Motor City Jazz Octet keeps driving emphatically forward on its second recording, A Blue Time, using an impressive arsenal to scurry through a generally agreeable lineup of more or less familiar themes that have been given fresh coats of paint by seven astute and talented arrangers. Even with the various ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Eyal Vilner Big Band, Nicole Zuraitis, Entre Amigos, Leslie Vincent, Chenxi Pan & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
April 6, 2026

Today's broadcast concludes Women's History Month, but we keep the party going year round with new music from Jack Wood, Eyal Vilner Big Band, Nicole Zuraitis, Entre Amigos, Leslie Vincent and Chenxi Pan, with birthday shoutouts to Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin, Pearl Bailey, Jackie Warren, Astrud Gilberto, Mimi Jones, Ledisi, Hiromi, Karen Hammack, Yelena Eckemoff, Vanisha ...