Dreams of a Kitten by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Dreams of a Kitten

Page 222

Kanye West sampled Nyro on his widely acclaimed 2007 album

“Graduation.”

On July 22, 2014, composer/arranger Billy Childs released “Map

to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro.” The album features ten

Laura Nyro songs performed by a long list of stars including

Rickie Lee Jones, Shawn Colvin, Alison Krauss, Dianne Reeves,

and Wayne Shorter. The album was nominated for three Grammys,

with the "New York Tendaberry" track featuring Renee Fleming and

Yo-Yo Ma winning for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals.

In 2015, the Christine Spero Group released "Spero Plays Nyro;

the Music of Laura Nyro” along with a highly acclaimed live

tour. The album features eleven of Nyro's songs and an original

song, "Laura and John" by Christine Spero, a tribute to Laura

Nyro and John Coltrane, whom Nyro admired.

A documentary on Nyro was announced in 2022, which will be

associate produced by her son Gil and partly based on the

Michele Kort biography.

Discography

Studio albums

1967 – “More Than a New Discovery,” later reissued as “The First

Songs”