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Elizabeth Kontomanou
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The Steeplechase album Hands and Incarnation brought her a nomination for the 1999 Django d'Or . After working with various bands (including a sextet with JD Allen and Sam Newsome ) in 2004, she founded a duo with the percussionist Ari Hoenig . In 2006 she became the best jazz vocalist of the year ( Les Victoires du Jazz ). Elisabeth moved to Sweden where she released Back to My Groove in 2007, an album that featured many of her long-time collaborators, such as Parker, Newsome, Sewell and Allen. The album also featured John Scofield and TWO of Elisabeth's sons, Donald Kontomanou Gustav Karlström.
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Elizabeth Kontomanou at Tanjazz Festival 2013
by Mehdi El Mouden
Elizabeth Kontomanou Tanjazz Festival Palais des Institutions Italiennes Tangier, Morocco September 21, 2013 Females have always held an important position in the jazz world, especially as singers. Since the demise of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and some unforgettable female voices, other singers have arisen vying for attention, willing to keep the tradition of the word in jazz and the worldess sound as well. One of those staunch perpetuators is vocalist Elizabeth Kontomanou. ...
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by AAJ Staff
Elizabeth Kontomanou, as the daughter of a Greek mother and an African father who herself hails from Paris, is a relatively new vocal talent in the music whose cosmopolitan heritage belies her own particular take on the music. Elizabeth Kontomanou is decidely a multiculturalist, one who sees it fit to adopt all of those musical elements from different cultural traditions toward the creation of a unified aesthetic. In her own words, she takes the music of John Coltrane and all ...
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