Laura Nyro: Live: The Loom's Desire
"Melancholy doesn't even come close to describing this performance; maybe better is the Brazilian/Portuguese concept of 'saudade', the happiness that arrives when you realize you're just about as sad as you can be. Nyro's alto is maybe a little shaky and perhaps a touch flat, but it's as expressive as all hell, and when it floats on the fluffy cloud provided by the backing voices it sounds like a blueprint of someone's soul. "