Tombeau

With his education and entrepreneurial attitude, Tombeau would be a prime candidate to enter a Haitian middle class.

Haiti Housing Prices Rival New York, LA AP 2010

Those houses were destroyed, and the ones that are left are too expensive, Tombeau explained with the patience of a man used to walking teenagers through French grammar.

Haiti Housing Prices Rival New York, LA AP 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — It's just two miles from where Dominique Tombeau lives today to the house he dreams about at night, but the road runs straight uphill.

Haiti Housing Prices Rival New York, LA AP 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — It's just two miles from where Dominique Tombeau lives today to the house he dreams about at night, but the road runs ...

Haiti Housing Prices Rival New York, LA AP 2010

Those houses were destroyed, and the ones that are left are too expensive, Tombeau explained with the patience of a man used to walking teenagers through French grammar.

Haiti Housing Prices Rival New York, LA AP 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — It's just two miles from where Dominique Tombeau lives today to the house he dreams about at night, but the road runs straight uphill.

Haiti Housing Prices Rival New York, LA AP 2010

When officials began discouraging aid from reaching that camp, Tombeau took his $90 worth of donated tarps, wood and corrugated tin to the new camp on the side-street of Delmas 56, a rocky slope above a ravine behind a fast food joint and computer store.

Haiti Housing Prices Rival New York, LA AP 2010

The rich mine of jazz-classical "crossover" is his speciality, which he showed at Tuesday's late set with a stunning trio treatment of the third movement of Ravel's "Tombeau de Couperin."

Passing Down the Piano Torch Song Will Friedwald 2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — It's just two miles from where Dominique Tombeau lives today to the house he dreams about at night, but the road runs straight uphill.

Haiti Housing Prices Rival New York, LA The Huffington Post News Team 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — It's just two miles from where Dominique Tombeau lives today to the house he dreams about at night, but the road runs straight uphill.

Haiti Housing Prices Rival New York, LA The Huffington Post News Team 2010