Jazz Vocalist Lucy Yeghiazaryan Quartet

Vocalist Lucy Yeghiazaryan grew up in post-Soviet Armenia and began listening to her father’s once-contraband collection of jazz records at a early age. Electricity was intermittent so these sessions listening to jazz standards were rare. Yet so captivated was the young girl that she meticulously mimicked the sounds and styles of famous vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan before she could even speak English.

Economic hardships eventually forced her family to emigrate to the United States when Lucy was twelve. The talented young vocalist won a scholarship to NJPAC’s Jazz for Teens program and began performing while earning a college degree in world history. She also became a skilled classical violinist.

She was a top ten finalist in the 2015 Thelonious Monk Competition and she is now recognized as an up and coming vocalist in the world of straight ahead jazz. She has received grants from the Doris Duke Foundation, Chamber Music and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has shared the stage with Grant Stewart, Harold Mabern, Houston Person, Bernadette Peters, Rodney Whitaker, Arto Tuncboyaijian, Steve Williams and many more.

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.