New Album Update with Stevie Holland (Talk to Your Tomatoes)

STEVIE HOLLAND – the award-winning jazz vocalist and songwriter – has announced the release of the vinyl edition of her acclaimed new album Talk to Your Tomatoes, which is available today, Friday, April 17. This summer, she will celebrate the album with a special New York concert at 54 Below on Tuesday, July 28 at 7:00 PM. Tickets are available HERE. To order the vinyl edition, visit Amazon HERE. A 2026 Jazz Times feature calls Holland, “a thoroughly modern singer and cosmopolitan music-maker,” who “never wants for poise, poignancy and passion is its nuanced delivery.” Reviewing Talk to Your Tomatoes, Jazz Weekly raved that Holland “exudes warmth, class and confidence with seemingly effortless aplomb and inbred swing.” Jersey Jazz said, “She has a deft knack for bringing the words to life in a way that is uniquely hers.” Talk to Your Tomatoes, also available on CD and in digital and streaming platforms, is an accomplished collection of gems and classics from the pop, jazz and American Songbook catalogs. It also features sophisticated original songs penned by Holland and her longtime collaborator and arranger, award-winning composer Gary William Friedman, who did the arrangements for this album and also re-imagined his original Broadway arrangement of the song “How I Feel” from The Me Nobody Knows. The instrumentation for this album includes a wide variety of orchestrations that include string orchestra, horn combo and guitar along with the trio on several tracks. Stream or download the album at orcd.co/ttytsh. Holland is featured in a new music video for “Talk to Your Tomatoes,” the title track written by Holland and Gary William Friedman. The song and video are a swinging, zany, and veggie-gardening loving trip that will make even the most broccoli-averse music lover smile. Watch the video on YouTube HERE. The album features Holland’s gifted trio, which features Matthew Sheens on piano, Matt Aranoff on bass, and Jeff Davis on drums. Lauded guitarist Ben Monder guests on three tracks including an intimate vocal/guitar duo on “‘Round Midnight,” and the horn combo is led by Chet Doxas, named in 2022 and 2023 in Downbeat Magazine‘s “Rising Star” Critic’s Poll for his saxophone and clarinet work. The 10-track set begins with Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner’s “On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever),” set to a fresh and swinging groove with strings and horns. The journey continues with “Help Me” (Joni Mitchell), “When These Two Hearts Collide” (Friedman/Holland), “How I Feel” (from the musical The Me Nobody Knows, Friedman/Will Holt), “Blossom” (James Taylor), “Talk to Your Tomatoes” (Friedman/Holland), “‘Round Midnight” (Cootie Williams/Thelonius Monk/Bernie Hanighen), “You Pull Through” (Friedman/Holland), “Pure Imagination” (Leslie Bricusse/Anthony Newley), and “East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)” (Brooks Bowman).