After the Pulse nightclub shootings, Stevie Wonder's song came to mind as the remedy for the hate and violence present in the world. ET, LT and producers Roseanna Vitro and Paul Wickliffe arranged and recorded 11 songs of lovebroken, in need of repair, naughty, bluesy, and high-flying with the message that Love and Music have the power to heal.
Elizabeth Tomboulian cut her teeth on folk and blues then discovered jazz in Houston, where she evolved from Montrose singer-songwriter to featured vocalist at the Shell Club. New Orleans was her next stop, gigging on Bourbon Street and joining the Charles Neville House Band at NOLA Jazz and Heritage Festival. NOLA catapulted her to Colorado, where she was opening act at the Blue Note Boulder. Seven years in studios in Nashville, recording her comps with 10-piece band, Whatever It Takes....
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After the Pulse nightclub shootings, Stevie Wonder's song came to mind as the remedy for the hate and violence present in the world. ET, LT and producers Roseanna Vitro and Paul Wickliffe arranged and recorded 11 songs of lovebroken, in need of repair, naughty, bluesy, and high-flying with the message that Love and Music have the power to heal.
Elizabeth Tomboulian cut her teeth on folk and blues then discovered jazz in Houston, where she evolved from Montrose singer-songwriter to featured vocalist at the Shell Club. New Orleans was her next stop, gigging on Bourbon Street and joining the Charles Neville House Band at NOLA Jazz and Heritage Festival. NOLA catapulted her to Colorado, where she was opening act at the Blue Note Boulder. Seven years in studios in Nashville, recording her comps with 10-piece band, Whatever It Takes.
In Texas at UNT, she sang in Jazz Singers, Denton Bach Choir, and Circo. Uruguayan Maestro Hugo Fattoruso produced, North/South Convergence, mostly Tomboulian comps, with a second Circo CD, Return to Whenever." A week with Bobby McFerrin and Rhiannon at the Omega Institute, sparked her Quantum Energetics Healing practice. Six years in Wisconsin, teaching voice in high schools and jazz vocals at Northwoods Jazz Camp, eventually led to the move to NYC, where she served on the Board of Trustees at Edgar Cayce NY Center, teaching workshops in Quantum Sound Healing. She gigs in Manhattan and Long Island as a solo artist and featured vocalist, and Music Director of Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palisades in Englewood, NJ.
"A rapturous solo reading of the jazz standard I Get Along Without You Very Well features her penchant for re-harmonization as a pianist while showcasing her flawless intonation, clear articulation, natural vibrato and warm, soaring vocal delivery." ~Bill Milkowski, Journalist and Author
"Elizabeth Tomboulian is the Real Deal. She is a multi-talented singer-composer-pianist with a gorgeous voice and message the world needs to hear. Listen!" ~Roseanna Vitro, Grammy-nominated Jazz Vocalist, Producer
"I'll say what Phil Woods said about me back in the day, It's official. Elizabeth Tomboulian is The Shit!" ~Janet Lawson, Grammy-nominated Jazz Vocalist/Educator
"... a wonderful singer and a beautiful human being, which certainly comes out in her music." ~Sheila Jordan, NEA Jazz Master
Photo by John Abott
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