Topic: Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro by Billy Childs

[Nichi]

Billy Childs is a jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. In 2014, he did a tribute album to Laura Nyro, with guest musicians and vocalists from many genres.

Here are some of the cuts.

Save the Country - Vocalist Shawn Colvin
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https://youtu.be/B7mQHLKtpOw

[Nichi]

And When I Die - Vocalist Alison Kraus and Steel Guitarist Jerry Douglas
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https://youtu.be/hRDpsY6u0sc

[Nichi]

Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp - Vocalist Esperanza Spalding and Saxophonist Wayne Shorter
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https://youtu.be/hzPQatneXRo

This one is very tasty.

Market in the cool white mornin'
Merchants sell while women buy
Milk, tobacco, soap and matches
Sweep the floor
While the dishes dry
Spring whispered in her ear
Like soft Mediterranean wailin'

Sleepy woman by the window
Dreamin' in the morning air
Of the one who takes her sweetness
By a chinese lamp upstairs

The steam of china tea
You could hear the woman sing
In the soft flames of spring

Spring has swept the scarlet side streets
Winds caress, undress, invite
Upstairs by a china lamp
They softly talk in the cool spring night

(The original:
https://youtu.be/Q2PeqqNi9bA  )

[Nichi]

New York Tendaberry  - Vocalist Renee Fleming and Cellist Yo Yo Ma.
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https://youtu.be/2LSOMavVQI4


Think this one could benefit from hearing the original:


https://youtu.be/tFj8_e8a68o



New York tendaberry
Blue berry
A rush on rum
Of brush and drum

And the past is a blue note
Inside me
I ran away in the morning

New York tendaberry
Blue berry
Rugs and drapes and drugs
And capes
Sweet kids in hunger slums
Firecrackers break
And they cross
And they dust
And they skate
And the night comes

I ran away in the morning

Now I'm back
Unpacked
Sidewalk and pigeon
You look like a city
But you feel like a religion
To me

New York tendabery
True berry
I lost my eyes
I east wind skies
Here where I've cried
Where I've tried
Where God and the tendaberry rise
Where quakers and revolutionaries
Join for life
For precious years
Joined for life
Through silver tears

New York tendaberry

[Nichi]

Gibsom Street - Vocalist Susan Tedeschi, Saxophonist Steve Wilson
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https://youtu.be/dvJx0hxH1vM

[Nichi]

Save the Country - Vocalist Shawn Colvin
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https://youtu.be/B7mQHLKtpOw

I can't stop listening to this. The arrangement and the performance are done with a sad mood, as if we all know now ... that this was just a dream - that the country and the people won't be saved.