I DON'T FUCKN' KNOW WHO LEDISI IS, & IT MIGHT AS WELL BE KA'MÁ'LA.....CAUSE' THIS FUCKN' SUCKS, GODAMN YOU, THINKING YOU CAN UPSTAGE LAURA NYRO WITH THIS CHEAP MINIMUM WAGE IMMIGRANT JINGLES VOICE OVER RECRUIT OF YOUR'S
@Antoniberico
Ай бұрын
shit, ¡WHAT A RIPPOFF'! ¿TALK' BOUT REPARATIONS? PUTTING ESPERNZA SPAULDING ON THIS PROJECT
@kenaldri4923
6 ай бұрын
I am literally crying listening to this wonderful album which I did not know existed until now. The appearance of so many well known names in jazz, vocalists I have adored for a long time, only adds to the power and majesty of this music. But the sophisticated jazzy and atmospheric arrangements have elevated this album to the top of my list of most amazing albums in my collection. Laura was always incredibly gifted as a songwriter, but it was going to take a gifted jazz arranger to reveal to us just how incredible they really were from a jazz standpoint. Miraculously, someone had the brilliance and foresight to realize how much her work could be further enhanced by going in this direction. It would have struck me as a daunting task, but the results are truly remarkable. Thank you, Billy Childs!
@danielsmith1187
10 ай бұрын
Buckle up! Every once in a while I dust this off, sit alone with a cup of coffee or wine and crank up the volume. It is a plush, lush roller coaster ride that will lift you up and send you plummeting down. Gibsom St. alone will leave your head spinning. BRAVO!
@sisimmonds1472
2 жыл бұрын
💯 👌🏾 #Brilliant #LauraNyro & #Ledisi ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@annettespallino1371
2 жыл бұрын
It still blows my mind, So beautiful dramatic and exciting. Laura was.
@TerriBingham
2 жыл бұрын
Pretty genius arrangement. But no surprise, that's Billy Childs.
@michael_caz_nyc
2 жыл бұрын
Phenomenal album. Great songs. Hypnotic piano playing, killer musicians, and the angelic vocals of: Lisa Fisher, Becca Stevens ( among several others ) oNe LovE from NYC
@kimmysophiabrown4807
2 жыл бұрын
I would love to see this interview extended to two hours, and hear from each singer and musician, so interesting and beautiful.
@willfromyadkinville
3 жыл бұрын
my dream!
@PhyllisShepherd
3 жыл бұрын
Listen to those ivories!
@shirleyanne6573
3 жыл бұрын
Laura Nyro's music got me through high school and I've been doing a bit of a Nyro retrospective lately. Just found out about this album. sooo excited. Thanks for posting!
@JulieBluestoneMusic
3 жыл бұрын
Love this by Billy Childs.. great!
@francisworldgmail
3 жыл бұрын
Lavoro Meraviglioso!!! Voci femminili meravigliose, Becca, Renee, Ledisi, Dianne, Ricky etc… E cosa dire dei musicisti? WoW!!! Applausi!!!...
@samkohen4589
5 жыл бұрын
Won the Grammy for best album in 2015. Too bad Ms Nyro wasn't around to see it
@friendlier
5 жыл бұрын
Surrey not surry
@AwaTu
7 ай бұрын
Actually, not... It's not the noun, "surrey", as in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Surrey With A Fringe On Top"... Laura's lyrics plainly spell it "surry"... Apparently, when recording, the producer asked: "What does surry mean?"... Laura replied: "Oh, it's just a nice word"... She may have been using surry as a neologism.
@michaelpowell7120
5 жыл бұрын
What new was brought? Qiverrrring vibrato? This is were the Liberals make love to themselves.
@docsketchy
5 жыл бұрын
This is where Conservatives show us just how bankrupt they are, in every way -- intellectually, emotionally, politically -- go crawl back into your hole and die, already
@michaelpowell7120
5 жыл бұрын
Did the vote for Trump?
@ronnieevers5115
6 жыл бұрын
Im sobbing....
@williamfisher1382
6 жыл бұрын
I came across this album during a recent trip to India while using the online entertainment system. The mix of great singers and musicality both touched me and blew me away. I keep coming back the album -frankly there is something spiritual about it -makes me feel the beauty of humanity that is possible despite the rougher stuff we can all see daily. Thanks Billy et all!!!
@anonymas1582
7 жыл бұрын
delicious rendition
@jammosu6498
7 жыл бұрын
I love his interpretation of her music. Thank you for getting her out there.
@pellenordwall1906
7 жыл бұрын
Just magic. Art
@lupcokotevski2907
7 жыл бұрын
Love it!
@454pakr
7 жыл бұрын
Well Done!
@nycp1969
8 жыл бұрын
First Joni Mitchell released the gorgeous Travelogue and now Laura Nyro is posthumously treated to this breathtaking impressionistic work. I am incredibly impressed by the arrangements, singers and song selection. Of course, dyed in the wool Laura fans will clamor for more of their personal favorites. I'd have placed Brown Earth, Blackpatch and maybe even the curious Sweet Lovin' Baby. But I am very content to find Map, Tendaberry and my very favorite, Chinese Lamp, here. Billy, you seem to be a Xmas and the Beads of Sweat person like me, with three tracks from this least mentioned of the trilogy. I am stunned to find Rickie Lee Jones and Renee Fleming--two of my favorite artists for totally different reasons--on the same album. A question--would you consider doing an album like this of Rickie's music? I think she is ripe for your shimmering instrumentation.
@jaytucker
8 жыл бұрын
"And it's nice to know who your friends are -- when your E-goes down. . ."
@popbottle2645
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@danthebeachman
8 жыл бұрын
Great cover!
@candacecoleman2370
8 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love Ledisi and this rendition of a classic!
@gracelaforge9778
8 жыл бұрын
I agree that no one can top Laura's delivery of her own words and music these artists are inspired by her...and can't help but be compelled to bring their best to this project. After all....we, her biggest fans will be listening the closest ; )
@SylviaWongLewis
9 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love this re-imagined treasure! I was a Laura Nyro fan back in college in the 70s. My friends and I used to sit transfixed by her amazing poetic musicality.
@CandyceR1
9 жыл бұрын
Gibsom Street is very very well done. See you in Austin in September.
@gregofoldvari8422
9 жыл бұрын
Lovely atmosphere and great verb in lyrics.
@rachaelphillips122
9 жыл бұрын
great stuff!
@RMoribayashi
9 жыл бұрын
During the underground and progressive radio days there were two FM stations in Philadelphia that played her music, WMMR and (until 1971) WDAS. Back then if a DJ liked it he played it, and they all loved Laura. As for this CD, I'll wait until I hear it to pass judgement.
@louisejoles4339
9 жыл бұрын
Renee Fleming, really? Not a good fit.
@ibornalone
9 жыл бұрын
Amazing, amazing album. I discovered Laura Nyro through it and bought every single album she made.
@onlinewithzoe
10 жыл бұрын
I keep thinking I should. I should. and then I think, I can't. 3 miles from my house and I wonder if I can. I can't - I miss her too much. She won't be there.
@NIJEECAPRICORN23
10 жыл бұрын
I love this tribute album but I felt like Stone Soul Picnic and Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp didn't become Ledisi or Esperanza Spalding voices, I would've chose someone different cause it didn't fit. My favorite were Becca Stevens and Lisa Fisher covers great tribute album. It takes a special type of voice to embody Laura Nyro songs cause her voice has this husky tone but she was good at making it dramatic and expressing it in all types of ways..
@ulpana
2 жыл бұрын
I up-voted your comment of 7 years ago Nijee Vaughn. However, I disagree with your premise that this project should fit a Laura Nyro Various Artists tribute album like the 2-3 others that have each made gorgeous niches for appreciating Nyro's indirect mentoring of generations of artists breaking with show biz and formatted media conventions and who've distinguished themselves in various styles and sub niches of genres of performing artist\composer-songwriters often referred to as "Cult Artists." This is a Billy Childs conceived project with Larry (former Mr Joni Mitchell and fine bassist on the parts of her recording career I still don't care for, the radio-ready techno pop she and Geffen sought to make a new adult market for in the 1980's) Klein consulting and as this brief promo clip makes clear, each bringing their own musical aesthetics and tastes to the table. This project is therefore a personal vision of another artist\performer's oeuvre and stands alone, not meant to represent as a tribute album would and has on multiple occasions the various mostly self-selecting artists. Having said that, I'd also add that I could not pick better performing artist\composer-songwriters to inhabit the Laura Nyro pieces selected, especially our own PoTown, Ore Esperanza Spalding and So Cal's Wayne Shorter on "Upstairs By A China Lamp" as reimagined by Childs, Klein and the artists. Or the East Bay Area's Ledisi who must've grown up with Nyro in the Oakland air as Nyro's one major world tour with a full band, the now Japan re-issued and complete double album named SEASON OF LIGHTS features Jeannie Fineberg and Jeff King on reeds and Ellen Seeling on trumpet with Carter CC Collins (the late Tim Buckley's hand percussionist of choice) and Sly Stone's Andy Newmark on drums; a veritable who's who of one-time Oakland-based artists. Nyro chose the Oakland concerts for some of SEASON OF LIGHTS most ecstatic U.S. bi-centennial tour tracks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_of_Lights The former Laura Nyro horn section is still Oakland-based and they each and collectively have decades of glorious "Cult Artists and bands, combos, orchestras" who remained in the East Bay Area and whose gigs and recordings feature this horn section or individual players drawn from it. All of us who've been ingrained with that mystical Laura Nyro ecumenical spirit, yet with distinctive "Mediterranean wail(ing)" via her Bronx tenement "Slum Goddess" roots. I'm pretty sure it is still a high school Laura Nyro who was hanging out down in the East Village in the mid 1960's and who managed even without a cabaret license to play cafes and tea houses or lofts and do sessions in the Village's studios (see Janis Ian's memoir of a few years back describing how she met a teen-aged Nyro in studios being used by Ian for one project and Jimi Hendrix for another) and managed to cast her spell on The Fugs's street poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg (Z"L, Rest in Play, Tuli) along with the pioneering instrumentalists in that seminal bardic jug band. The Fugs crawled up briefly from the corporate-captured counter-culture's creepy basement with their early album track titled "Slum Goddess" reputedly channeling their thrall with street-corner and subway thrush while unconventional piano touch-sensitive Laura Nyro. www.cleveland.com/rockhall/2012/04/laura_nyro_piano-playing_songb.html Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee
@NIJEECAPRICORN23
2 жыл бұрын
@@ulpana well damn you wrote a whole book yo 🤣🤣
@gyppy1715
10 жыл бұрын
This is an amazing album-----Billy Childs is an amazing musician and understands and loves Laura---been listening non stop since I got it.
@johndavies5960
10 жыл бұрын
This is beautiful guys, I'm an oldie! Still have the vinyl! Reimagining very apt, She would have loved it eh? Wayne was a great choice.
@Tchimewrinou
10 жыл бұрын
Laura's version are soooooo fucking amazing
@louisejoles4339
9 жыл бұрын
Right, nobody should ever even think about recording a Laura Nyro song, nobody can do her justice. Sorry, but that's just the way it is.
@ralphie57
10 жыл бұрын
Yessiree ... triple thumbs up ... ditto, a glorious treat.
@WilcoG
10 жыл бұрын
I rarely get excited about a new album these days. What a glorious treat!
@nyronut
10 жыл бұрын
Hail to the music of the genius that was Laura Nyro <3
@chistletoe
10 жыл бұрын
rugs and drapes and drugs and rapes .... I still miss her. thanks for this.....
@louisejoles4339
9 жыл бұрын
I think it's and capes....Miss her so much too, but I found out she's my guardian angel, so that helps. Laura will be there for every single heart that loves her.
@vsibirsky
10 жыл бұрын
I guess I don't want to "hear" Laura's music in another way. She left us the gift of a beautiful repertoire. Listen to it..
@joeferguson2606
10 жыл бұрын
i agree, i cant get into any kind of "mood" unless it's Laura singing her songs. i guess i listen based on what i want to hear/feel.
@rodjohnson9510
10 жыл бұрын
A lot of us first heard Laura's music in the old days as interpreted by other performers--Barbra Streisand, the Fifth Dimension, Three Dog Night, Blood, Sweat and Tears (shudder)--and were moved to go to the source. So I think this is OK, and who knows, might actually help her find a new audience. This seems like a good thing to me. And, you know, all of the old music is still there for you to listen to. But the idea of hearing Lisa Fischer sing Map to the Treasure... wow. That could be amazing. And Wayne Shorter, and Renee Fleming... I have to give Billy Childs credit for picking some great talent, whether or not it works out. I'm going to give this a chance at least.
@jamessonhil5291
10 жыл бұрын
***** As a long time Laura Nyro fan, i highly recommend this tribute album! I can only compare it to Joni Mitchell's Travelogue and 'Both sides now ' albums, in terms of the arrangement's.
@johndavies5960
10 жыл бұрын
I really agree!
@jammosu6498
7 жыл бұрын
Vita Sibirsky I
@denknee8237
10 жыл бұрын
Can't wait!! Thank you for helping Laura's music carry on...
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