Nancy LaMott - Ask Me Again
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Free Music Review: Thank you, Midder Music!
Hit: 5 Stars
We've all been waiting so very long for more of Nancy's unreleased music. This 2-CD set is a grand compilation of this wonderful voice. I've been singing "Moondance" all day, with Nancy's expressive sound in my head.Free Music Review: Amazing voice, amazing discovery
Hit: 5 Stars
If you've ever had the privilege of hearing Judy or Liza or Streisand in person or hearing them on an LP or CD for the first time, then you'll know what a thrill's in store for you when you hear Nancy LaMott for the first time. I was introduced to her a few years back by a friend and I couldn't wait to hear more of this fascinating voice. "Ask Me Again" is a truly wonderful discovery that you will treasure. Enough said. Get your copy now and sit back and enjoy. You won't be sorry.Free Music Review: soothing!
Hit: 5 Stars
It's living in my cd and i swear it makes be a more calm driver! DOn't miss this!Free Music Review: "This tiny figure of magic would become, I knew, the voice of its time."
Hit: 5 Stars
I confess I temporarily passed this one up, opting instead for the simultaneously released DVD ("I'll Be Here with You"). After all, I had accumulated all six of the precious albums in her discography plus the late recording discovered a couple of years ago ("Live at Tavern on the Green"). The prospect of hearing an assortment of radio broadcasts and tracks recorded under less than optimal musical or technical circumstances held little allure, and the inclusion of "Moondance" and "The Wind Beneath My Wings" in the songlist seemed to confirm that this might be the LaMott recording one could do without.
Lesson learned. Don't assume anything when dealing with artists of this stature. From the very first track the voice is simply stunning, all the more so for being so nakedly exposed. Sinatra and Riddle, Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Gerald Moore--Nancy LaMott and Christopher Marlowe. The messenger and the message are uncluttered and unplugged, the communication forever present and alive, the language of emotion as direct and pure as it gets.
Much of that message on the present recording concerns the precious, fragile nature of time. Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady" wastes it; Jule Styne ("Killing Time") deplores its irresponsible use; Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek" celebrates a pair who, like Lamott and Marlowe, were always "in time"; Nancy herself replaces "clock" time with an intense, expanded moment of experience that allowed her to make the most of her limited time.
Not until the 9th track of the first disc, "Call Me Irresponsible," does the audio come up noticeably short with its tenuous electric piano and thin, artificially boosted reproduction of the back-up ensemble, yet the vocalist's powerful, impassioned reading of the Van Heusen-Cahn standard simply can't be denied, perhaps matched only by Sinatra's performance of the same tune. LaMott's is a voice that can instantly transform itself from back-row explosiveness and defiant indestructibility into meditative, intimate vulnerability, which is the prevailing mood of the second disc. Since one of these latter tracks, ironically Rodgers and Hart's "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," was recorded four days before the singer's death, the poignancy of these subdued readings is all the more heightened.
This may be the best Nancy LaMott album of them all, and if Jonathan Schwartz was slightly off in confidently predicting that Nancy's would become "the voice of its time," it's only because he was premature.
Free Music Review: A Resurrection for Nancy LaMott
Hit: 5 Stars
These recordings are so well done yet originated as live radio broadcasts or live performances. Many heretofore unpublished songs are recorded here giving us one last "new" set of beautiful music to remember Nancy by and to cherish for many, many years.