Jazz Articles about Nancy LaMott

Nancy LaMott: Ask Me Again

by Samuel Chell
April 8, 2008

Nancy LaMott's story is the stuff of Hollywood melodrama--and a lesson about time. When she died on December 13, 1995 from uterine cancer preceded by years of battling Crohn's disease followed by an ileostomy, she left behind a scant but distinguished discography of six precious CDs. Even those became unavailable when, after a marriage hastily assembled during the last 45 minutes of her life, litigation ensuing from estate squabbles led to suppression of her recordings for almost ten years. In ...

Nancy LaMott: I'll Be Here With You - A Collection of Rare Live Performances 1978-1995

by Samuel Chell
March 18, 2008

Nancy LaMott I'll Be Here With You - A Collection of Rare Live Performances 1978-1995 Midder Music 2008

Nancy LaMott was the last of a breed--not an improvising jazz singer in the tradition of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Karrin Allyson; not a singer-songwriter like Carole King, Joni Mitchell, or Eva Cassidy. Instead, she was a genuine cabaret artist, the American equivalent of an Edith Piaf, a performer in the grand tradition of a ...