Talk to Your Tomatoes Stevie Holland

• 1 On a Clear Day 03:55
• 2 Help Me 03:49
• 3 When Two Hearts Collide 04:24
• 4 How I Feel 04:55
• 5 Blossom 03:09
• 6 Talk to Your Tomatoes 03:27
• 7 Round Midnight 04:20
• 8 You Pull Through 03:28
• 9 Pure Imagination 03:18
• 10 East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) 04:19
• Total Runtime 39:04

Info for Talk to Your Tomatoes

Stevie Holland returns to the recording studio! Talk to Your Tomatoes is an exciting collection of ten songs that include covers of Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Thelonius Monk works as well as originals penned with longtime collaborator Gary William Friedman, who also did the arrangements and orchestrations. For the first time in their collaboration, Stevie is covering a song from Friedman’s hit Broadway musical The Me Nobody Knows. Joining Stevie are some of today’s most adventurous and gifted jazz musicians, and the album is richly arranged with orchestration variations incorporating a horn combo and string orchestra.

Stevie Holland

Stevie Holland
is an American jazz vocalist, writer and lyricist. She has headlined at major concert halls, jazz clubs and cabaret rooms, in addition to performing in theater. A dynamic performer and internationally acclaimed song stylist, she continues to chart her own path as a completely original artist.

She returns to the recording studio with Talk to Your Tomatoes, a 2025 release out October 10. A collection of gems and classics from the pop, jazz and American Songbook catalogs, Talk to Your Tomatoes also includes original songs penned by Holland and her longtime collaborator and steady arranger, award-winning composer Gary William Friedman.

The broad appeal of Stevie Holland’s previous albums has led them to chart on jazz, smooth jazz, traditional pop and standard radio stations nationally.

Her last album Life Goes On was produced by Grammy winning NEA JazzMaster Todd Barkan, who also co-produced Holland’s Before Love Has Gone release. Esteemed jazz journalist Gary Giddins, who described Stevie as a “self-possessed tour de force”, who sings with “effortless swing and a radiant wit”, penned the liner notes for Before Love Has Gone, and in addition to receiving acclaim from jazz, pop and cabaret critics, it was featured as an iTunes Top Jazz Album and made the critics’ list as a Top Album of the Year at USA TODAY.

She created the one-woman musical Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter with Gary William Friedman. Love, Linda had its Off-Broadway Premiere at the York Theatre 2013-2014, returned to the Triad Theater for a special limited engagement in October 2018, and was filmed for a worldwide on-demand video release in 2021. Holland starred in all productions, with direction by TONY-Winner Richard Maltby, Jr. The film has earned multiple awards at festivals in the USA & UK, including a BEST ACTRESS IN A FEATURE FILM award for Holland at the Culver City Film Festival in California. The film is streaming at Amazon Prime / BroadwayHD. Other stage presentations of Love, Linda are currently being presented in theaters across the country and around the globe with licensing through Concord Theatricals.

The youngest of seven children, Stevie grew up in a music-filled, Norwegian-Italian household in Westchester County, New York. Her father was a tenor sax-playing commercial artist and avid jazz record collector, and her mother was a church soloist who performed in recitals and operas. (Her Uncle, Mike Olivieri was a bandleader and pianist who served as Fred Astaire’s Music Director in the USO).

After establishing herself as a performer and lyricist in New York, she forged a steady songwriting collaboration with composer Gary William Friedman; the pair subsequently married. The Holland-Friedman collaboration has led to several internationally acclaimed jazz vocal albums, and a wide array of songwriting and musical theater projects.

Current musical theater projects include Platinum Dreams, which was presented March 2025 in the York Theatre's New2NY Series, Merton of the Movies, and Dream Mountain, a musical about Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor who carved Mount Rushmore.

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