Billy Childs 'meets' Laura Nyro at Monterey Jazz Festival

Here's our Q&A with pianist Billy Childs, who talks about his life-long love of Laura Nyro's songs. He believes them to be on a par with those by Gershwin, Lennon and McCartney and other celebrated tunesmiths of the 20th century. Now Childs pays tribute to the late singer-songwriter with 'Map to the Treasure,' his new star-studded album of Nyro tunes. And Saturday at the Monterey Jazz Festival, he extends the tribute, performing new arrangements of Nyro's songs with his quartet, three excellent ...

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