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Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro by Billy Childs (CD, 2014, Masterworks)

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Having discovered Nyro's emotive and lyrically thoughtful genre-crossing folk recordings in his teens while studying jazz and classical music at the University of Southern California's Community School for the Performing Arts, Childs would eventually get to work with Nyro prior to her death from ovarian cancer in 1997.

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ProducerLarry Klein

Record LabelMasterworks

UPC0888430665729

eBay Product ID (ePID)203067919

Product Key Features

Release Year2014

FormatCD

GenreJazz

Run Time61 min.

ArtistBilly Childs, Alison Krauss, Esperanza Spalding, Chris Potter, Shawn Colvin, Steve Wilson, Jerry Douglas, Lisa Fischer, Chris Botti, Becca Stevens, Susan Tedeschi, Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Ledisi, Rickie Lee Jones, Dianne Reeves, Wayne Shorter

Release TitleMap to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro

Additional Product Features

Recording ModeStereo

DistributorSony Music Entertainment

Spar CodeN/A

Release Date20140000

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by buddysattva
12 Dec, 2015
This SHOULD be a great record - It isn't
The concept of this record is a good one - new takes on Laura Nyro songs, sung and played by A-list musicians. Unfortunately, the execution leaves a lot to be desired. Billy Childs' string arrangements tend to overpower the songs and singers. These are SONGS, not jazz changes over which to blow solos, or layer strings. In some cases, it sounds like the soloists were given only a single take, and their performances aren't up to snuff. Ledisi hasn't decided how to pronounce "surrey" on "Stone Soul Picnic." On "Upstairs By a Chinese Lamp," Wayne Shorter plays consistently sharp. These are not small details - they indicate that the producers were more interested in their own parts than in those of the other musicians. Additionally, the technical details of the recording are lacking. The strings sound like they are in two rooms at once, a small one and a big one. Chris Botti plays his trumpet beautifully and has a gorgeous tone, but his track is squashed with compression, leading to a lack of dynamics and outright distortion. In fact, the entire CD is smashed as flat as a pancake by mastering engineer Bernie Grundman. That takes the life out of it, and makes it tiring to listen to. There are some standout performances, e.g. Rickie Lee Jones' vocal on "Been on a Train" and Shawn Colvin's on "Save the Country," but they can't support the rather ponderous weight of the rest of the project.
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