Laura Fygi

Laura Fygi: Watch What Happens When Laura Fygi Meets Michel LeGrand

by Dave Hughes
March 1, 2000

Laura Fygi is one of the most under-recognized, best kept secrets of all female vocalists working today. Although she's nowhere near as jazzy as Ella or Sarah, or even her modern-day contemporaries Diane Schuur or Dianne Reeves, she still offers excellent interpretations, beautiful tone quality, and right-on-the-money intonation. This disc doesn't cover as wide a range, stylistically, as previous domestic releasesThe Lady Wants to KnoworBewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered; rather, it pays tribute to the repertoire of composer Michel ...

Laura Fygi: The Lady Wants to Know

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 1997

Like Marisa Monte, the beautiful Laura Fygi is one of the great pretenders to the Astrud Gilberto throne. “ The lady wants to know “ is a wonderful collection of bossa nova and movie classics which reminds me of the magic I felt in the sixties when I first heard this kind of music for the first time courtesy of the album “ Astrud Gilberto “.

Joining Laura on the album amongst others, are ' Toots ...

Frits Landesbergen Big Band with Madelaine Bell, Laura Fygi and Joke Bruijs

Source: All About Jazz
February 6, 2004

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