Since arriving from Armenia eighteen 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.
Tenor saxophonist Grant Stewart’s clarion sound and command recall Sonny Rollins, but his chops put him on a special level. What separates Stewart from so many of his peers stuck in the quicksand of hard bop nostalgia is the sheer creative spark and spontaneity of his solos.
