Lucy Yeghiazaryan was born in a small province of Armenia and moved to The United States in 2001 at the age of 11. She has been an active member of the jazz community in and outside of the country since her teenage years.  In New York, Yeghiazaryan can be found playing at Smalls, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Symphony Space and Smoke. Lucy leads a regular Tuesday session at Mezzrow Jazz Club and has a monthly residency at the historic Showman's Jazz Club in Harlem with her organ trio. 
Yeghiazaryan has shared the stage with Grant Stewart, Winard Harper, Herold Maborn, Don Braden, Steve Williams, Rodney Whitaker, Terell Stafford, Bernadette Peters, Arto Tuncboyaciyan and many more. She has served as a resident vocalist for the National Armenian Jazz Orchestra for various performance seasons and was one of the 10 finalists in the International Monk Jazz Competition in 2015. Yeghiazaryan is a member of the jazz faculty at Temple University and will release her debut album, BLUE HEAVEN, on Celler Live Records in 2019. 
In addition to her work as a straight-ahead jazz vocalist, Lucy plays violin and sings in the acapella group YY Sisters who perform medieval Armenian/modern folk music and enjoy wide recognition within the Armenian community.

Tatev is an electric songster, a film composer and performer whose music and voice feel right at home in rock, jazz, soul, Armenian folk, classical and pop. Tatev’s name means “Give Wings” in her native Armenian, which inspires her body of work that upholds the liberating prophecy of her name.
A multidisciplinary arts entrepreneur, translator and activist, Tatev was born in post-soviet Armenia on July 7th in 1987. She immigrated to America in 2003, where she received a full scholarship to NJPAC’s Jazz For Teens program, followed by her classical piano, voice and jazz studies at William Paterson University.
Her professional experience includes work at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, leading Song Writing and Recording workshops at TUMO in Yerevan and over twelve years of live performances throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has performed with Tigran Hamasyan, Grammy-nominated Arto Tunçboyacian and Benito Gonzalez. Tatev is a New York based musician whose constant collaborators are Kate Victor, Campblicated and Phil Painson.  She is the 2024 vocal lead at Festival International De Jazz Et Des Cultures Africaines and has performed at Festival Internacional de Jazz de Punta del Este. Tatev was a music ambassador at OneBeat Colombia in 2019 and a YoungArts composer’s grant recipient whose vocal arrangement for the “Sounds of Sevan” project became the winner at the London International Motion Pictures Awards.
Tatev’s musical influences, belief in the universality of sound, inspirations from fables, languages, enlightened peoples and connections to Mother Nature weave a rich and genre-fluid career path.
Tatev is a provocateur against stagnancy, irrational biases, and patriarchal and imperialist movements around the world. Her unique approach to life employs the senses, language, dance, oral traditions and simple daily acts like cooking as integral parts of expanding the mind. She believes that with curiosity, acceptance and understanding we can work to alleviate individual and universal suffering.

Not Dark Yet - Nathan Parker Smith Large Ensemble
“It’s a concentrated, potent dose of thundering jazz-metal power, more orchestral than big-band, thrilling no matter how you categorize it.” Phil Freeman, Burning Ambulance. 

“Don’t let the eighteen-member size of this jazz band scare you. This isn’t Grandpa’s big band, nor your Dad’s. Nor necessarily anybody else who’s into big band jazz. The Nathan Parker Smith Large Ensemble, perhaps the world’s only modern creative heavy metal horn band, is for the rest of us.” S. Victory Aaron, Something Else Reviews. 

“…[a] band that just about blows down the house… This is blockbuster, even bruising, music with little respite on the program; such vigorous music might scare some folks away, [I] can’t wait to hear this ensemble live.” Richard B. Kamins, Step Tempest. 

“…[a] seriously aggressive large ensemble… Music that speaks loudly and carries a big stick, too.” Dave Sumner, Wondering Sound. 

“…[a] muscular, bracingly intricate new disc…” Time Out New York. 
Nathan Parker Smith Large Ensemble 

Woodwinds 
Kevin Russell, Chris Shade, Michael Thomas, Justin Flynn, Alden Banta. 

Trumpets 
Augie Haas, David Smith, Josh Deutsch, Matt Holman. 

Trombones 
Matthew McDonald, Nick Finzer, JC Sanford, James Rogers. 

Rhythm 
Landon Knoblock, Rhodes. Kenji Shinagawa, guitar. Russ Flynn, bass. Jared Schonig, drums.
credits
released 14 October 2014 

Recorded at Let ‘em In Studio, Brooklyn, NY on 8/26, 9/13, 9/30, & 10/7 2014 by Luke Moellman and Brian Losch. Mixed by Luke Moellman & Nathan Parker Smith. Mastered by Randy Merrill at Sterling Sound. Produced by Nathan Parker Smith. Funding for tracks 2,3, & 11 provided by the BMI Manny Albam Commission. All compositions by Nathan Parker Smith, © 2014 NPSMUSIC/ASCAP. Exclusively licensed to Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records, LLC. Made in the U.S.A. All rights reserved. Unauthorised duplication is a violation of applicable laws.

Hailing from Japan, composer, producer, pianist, and bandleader of the 17-piece Miggy Augmented Orchestra, Migiwa “Miggy” Miyajima creates large-scale works manifesting her distinct life experiences. Birdland Jazz Club says, “Miyajima’s music reflects her journey as a musician and humanitarian.” Formerly editor-in-chief of a magazine in Japan, Miyajima trusted the power of music and became a full-time musician at the age of 30. In four years, the Grammy-winning Vanguard Jazz Orchestra found her and brought her two Grammy nominations as its associate producer. After surviving the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, Miyajima received a Japanese government grant and a Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Fellowship, and relocated to the US. She is the recipient of grants and awards including the 2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, 2020 NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre, and 2021 Creative Engagement program of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

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