Eva Cassidy - Autumn Leaves (REACTION) with my wife

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[deepbluehue]

What is really interesting to me, I read an interview with the accompanying pianist for THIS performance.
Eva asked him to to do " a little something " in the middle of the song ...
he was very nervous as it was UNREHEARSED !
I'd say he did a wonderful little improv. there ... don't you ?!
Such musicianship ; BOTH of them !

[doughaviland]

Eva will rip out your soul fill it with beauty and put it back again...❤😊

[dgp]

My mother loved Eva Cassidy and introduced us to her. My mom died of pancreatic cancer in 2003, and she passed with Eva's voice sending her on. At her memorial service we played I Know You By Heart and How Can I Keep From Singing by Eva, both incredible songs. Even after all this time, Eva can bring me to tears.
She was truly one of a kind. How she arranged her songs was genius. The emotions she poured into her songs, and her voice...yes, it's as if she opened her heart and welcomed us inside.
She has too many beautiful songs to list, but Somewhere Over the Rainbow will take your breath away. If you want to see her blues side, try Blues in the Night, it will blow your headphones off.
Love your reactions, thanks so much. ❤

[donstrasbaugh]

Eva is the greatest courier of song whoever lived here with us. Everything she did is magnificent. Enjoy your discovery. You’ll never experience anything like this again. She’s simply otherworldly. Enjoy!!

[stevem-h]

this was played at a remembrance service for my father in 2013. About 50 people there and not a dry eye in the house. For me, this is the greatest of her recordings, it is just absolutely sublime.

[racinnut]

This song is an old standard. She had the singular ability to make any song in any genre her own. RIP Eva.

[cspringer]

Her song "Over The Rainbow" from this same session might be one of the most watched videos on Youtube. Means more when you know she died 10 months later.

[michaelatkinson]

I wouldn't describe myself as an emotional wreck but every time I see & hear this girl I'm ready to blub like a baby. Her rendition of 'Over the Rainbow' especially gets me.

[robertmorris]

Eva and Karen Carpenter. Two exquisite songbirds gone long before their time. So incredibly touching and sad.😢

[andrewmorton]

Eva takes other people’s songs and makes them better in ways they couldn’t have imagined.

[curtisduncanmusic]

I absolutely LOVE to see your reactions to the enormous talent of Eva Cassidy. Please look up "Fields of Gold" and "Time After Time." On "Autumn Leaves" her pianist, Lenny Williams, said that he was worried that his solo would be, in his words, "painting a moustache on the Mona Lisa." Eva's performances are so incredible because there's no cutting and pasting, no auto-tune, no ego trips or anything of the sort. She was quite simply the most incredible naturally gifted singer of the 20th century, .

[tench]

She’s mesmerizing every time I hear her sing.

[jdbroders]

Eva is simply an angel with that voice. How can you not be moved to tears and emotion? Her gift is from somewhere else and we were privileged for such a brief time to hear her.

You must review Over the Rainbow from this same performance. It makes me cry with joy and sadness in such a good way every time. Such beauty. RIP Eva, you wonderful beautiful soul.

[capstang]

This is my favorite of Eva's covers that I've heard so far. It's heartbreaking and beautiful, and brings a new shade of meaning to the song. Great reaction!

[JohnLedger-gi]

This song has that effect on you Andrei. You have feelings - that’s good in this day and age.

[pmbrig]

With Eva, the purity of her voice and her impeccable control is just the beginning. She uses those tools in service of her interpretation of the song, in order to express the feelings of sadness and loss. She sings straight from her heart — in fact she missed out getting a contract with a major label when she refused to sing anything she couldn't connect to emotionally. She said, "I won't sing any of that pop crap."

Autumn Leaves is an old jazz standard, often done in an up-tempo swing style. When I first heard Eva sing it I realized I had never before heard the song as it was really meant to be performed. Once you've heard this version, the bouncy cheerful versions sound so empty of feeling.

Your reactions caught the important thing perfectly: when you hear her you feel as if you're seeing into her soul.

(And it's worth pointing out that just before she went on stage her pianist asked her what key she would be playing it in and she let him know it was a half-tone higher than usual, which meant that that perfect piano interlude was improvised in a key the pianist usually didn't play it in.)

[gregcobb]

She just makes you feel....to the heart

[massecarlson]

I can´t listen to this performans without getting tears in my eyes.

[michaeldavidson]

Love your reaction Andrei. Eva had a gift to make you feel what she sang. She was an angel. Love you guys too

[franksullivan]

She was so good and she would have been a most celebrated singer if she just had more time.She had such a beautiful voice and bared her soul every time she sang.RIp, Eva.