Beside the Golden Door Lucy Yeghiazaryan

• 1Arajin Siro Yerge (Առաջին սիրո երգը)03:18
• 2The Wind & the Rain in Your Hair02:18
• 3Yerkinkn Ampele (Երկինքն ամպել է)02:48
• 4Turquoise Cloud02:39
• 5Yet Ari Tarlans (Ետ արի թառլանս)03:10
• 6Lover Come Back02:57
• 7Yerjankutyun (Երջանկություն)02:28
• 8The Best Things in Life Are Free01:52
• 9Moratsum Chka (Մոռացում չկա)03:24
• 10These Foolish Things03:06
• 11Im Kyanki Garun (Իմ կյանքի գարուն)03:55
• 12They Say It's Spring02:21
• 13Amran Gisher (Ամռան գիշեր) / Summertime04:48
• 14Urax Tramadrutyun (Ուրախ տրամադրություն)03:39
• 15The Simple Life03:07
• 16Xrovac Er (Խռոված էր)03:25
• 17I Got It Bad04:07
• 18Xncori Cari Takin (Խնձորի ծառի տակին) / Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree00:55
• 19Care03:42
• Total Runtime57:59

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Lucy Yeghiazaryan presents Beside the Golden Door - a collection of thematically matching pairs of Armenian songs and jazz standards. The project juxtaposes native music from two vastly different worlds in an effort to better understand the common threads between different cultures.

Lucy Yeghiazaryan, a renowned jazz vocalist, who blends Armenian musical heritage with the jazz of The Big Apple. Her childhood years in Armenia were filled with melodies of American jazz. These tunes played a significant role in shaping her musical journey. In this interview, Lucy shares about her inspirations and her upcoming project Beside the Golden Door, where she fuses Armenian folk songs with American jazz classics. As a 2023 Creative Armenia-AGBU Fellow, she is all about fostering unity through the universal language of jazz. Dive into the full article to discover Lucy Yeghiazaryan’s harmonious world.

Lucy Yeghiazaryan, vocals
Eric Zolan, guitar

Lucy Yeghiazaryan
is an American Armenian vocalist who has become a leading voice in American straight-ahead jazz by bringing the real richness of her heritage together with her love for the ultimate American artform. She is a recipient of grants from the Doris Duke Foundation, Chamber Music America and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has shared the stage with Harold Mabern, Houston Person, Grant Stewart, Terell Stafford, Bernadette Peters, Arto Tuncboyaijian and many more. She regularly works with the Emmet Cohen trio and can be found performing in and outside of The United States with regular appearances at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Birdland, Mezzrow, Symphony Space and more. She was a top ten finalist in the 2015 Thelonious Monk Competition and holds a degree in World History in addition to being a skilled classical violinist. Her debut album, Blue Heaven, was released in 2019 on Cellar Live Records and was followed by the album In Her Words on La_Reserve Records in 2021 which was sponsored by The Women's Fund of NYFA. Her third album, Lonely House will be released in late 2022.

Lucy Yeghiazaryan grew up in post-Soviet Armenia and began listening to her father's once-contraband collection of jazz records at a young age. Electricity was intermittent so these listening sessions were rare but the collection of standards so captivated young Lucy that years before she ever learned to speak English, she began singing the tunes meticulously mimicking the sounds and styles of the likes of Ella and Sarah Vaughan.

Economic hardships eventually forced the family to immigrate to America in 2002. Yeghiazaryan brought her passion for jazz to the States, where she applied for and received a full scholarship to NJPAC's Jazz for Teens Program and happily became part of the local jazz community. After graduating college, Lucy moved to New York City in 2015 to pursue a career as a singer, and in a few short years she has won the respect and accolades of the elders at the epicenter of the jazz world.

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