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Christine Spero

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Our latest show is "Spero Plays Nyro", a celebration of the music of Laura Nyro with a new CD in January 2015. Steve Katz of the Blues Project and Blood, Sweat and Tears will occasionally be joining the show. We continue to bring our original nujazz, Latin, pop music to fans. The group brings their own kind of power to the music of Laura Nyro. Laura was a Grammy winning quintessential singer/songwriter/pianist. Her groundbreaking music crossed the genres of folk, rock and jazz and she was one of the most covered artists in the 1960's and 1970's (Eli's Coming, Stoned Soul Picnic, Wedding Bell Blues, Sweet Blindness)

Album

Spero Plays Nyro

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: Blackpatch; And When I Die; Broken Rainbow; Money; Eli's Comin'; Billy's Blues; Laura and John; Emmie; Sweet Blindness; Black Swallow; Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp; Stoned Soul Picnic; The Picnic; You Don't Love Me When I Cry.

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Article: Album Review

The Christine Spero Group: Spero Plays Nyro

Read "Spero Plays Nyro" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Pianist and singer Christine Spero and her group perform the music of singer and songwriter Laura Nyro on Spero Plays Nyro, a stellar tribute to one of the most iconic composers of the 20th century best known for the way she cross-bred the jazz, R&B, Pop and blues genres. Spero and band reprise some of Nyro's ...


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