Live At Tavernon The Green
Live At Tavernon The Green
Product Description
There's a very good reason that the sticker on this lovely cabaret-styled live concert date is billed as the singer's first new release in eight years -- she died of cancer in December, 1995, just weeks after the performance documented here. The release of this disc and the rest of her catalog in 2005 isn't quite like the Eva Cassidy story. Cassidy was an unknown...
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Released close to a decade after her death at 43, this live CD testifies to what made Nancy LaMott special to many cabaret lovers. The singer had a gentle, homespun manner rather different from the urban sophistication one so often associates with the classic American songbook. She sounded as if she didn't have a vindictive bone in her body and enjoyed the true worth of life's most basic pleasures with sincere optimism--no wonder she offers here a cleancut of Berlin's "I Got the Sun in the Morning." Backed by a discreet trio, LaMott is at her understated best on the more melancholy numbers, such as Rodgers and Hart's "I Didn't Know What Time It Was." The recording, which documents an entire show, banter included, also shows that LaMott was ahead of the game in the way she seamlessly mixed standards with modern pop (tracks by Rupert Holmes, Antonio Carlos Jobim and James Taylor). --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Review
"Exquisite phrasing like a young Rosemary Clooney." -- New York Daily News
"There is no more beautiful musical instrument than the voice of Nancy LaMott" -- Bob Harrington, New York Post
"Whatever she sang, Ms. LaMott invested it with a hint of swing, a dash of humor and deep understanding..." -- New York Times
Now, nine years later, Nancy LaMott has finally come back for an encore. It's about time. -- Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2005
The best cabaret singer I ever heard never quite managed to become a celebrity -- though she should have -- Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2005
From the Artist
"[She] is more than just another good girl singer. Her voice is a flawless instrument, but she also possesses that ineffable spirit and ability to communicate that separates the good from the truly great. LaMott is a singers singer and a critics dream. If you want to see how its done, Nancy LaMott can show you. It doesnt get better than this." Backstage
About the Artist
With a small catalogue of recordings and prestigious live performances to her credit, singer Nancy LaMott was on the brink of international stardom when she passed away in 1995, at the age of 43 Recorded at New Yorks famed Chestnut Room at Tavern On The Green just seven weeks prior to her death, this new CD represents Nancy LaMotts very last concert engagement imbued with the vocal power and warmth that were her signatures The first new Nancy LaMott release in eight years! Live At Tavern On The Green is a collection of the songs, both classic and contemporary, for which LaMott was best known as well as several songs she had never recorded before!