An original composition by pianist Patrizia Scascitelli with my original lyrics in Italian.

This duo version features guitarist Sergio La Viola + special guest Salvo Cascio on percussions. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Salvo Cascio at Explode Studio in Brooklyn, December 2013.

The track is featured in "Walnut Street Station, Last Jazz Stop from NY", a documentary film directed by Gianluca Bozzo.


Here's the lyrics:

Tu gia' lo sai 
Se lo vuoi
Puoi ritornar
A sorridere
 
Mirella
La gioia più piccola
Tenerla stretta non si può
Non lo dimenticar!
Cercala
Rincorrila, seguila
Se piove sopra la città
Tu mettiti a danzar!
Troverai
Il sole dentro te
E comincerà
Un nuovo giorno

Non lasciar
Che qualche difficoltà
Tradisca in te quell’energia
Che il mondo fa girar
Già lo sai
Puoi aver tutto ciò che vuoi
Il cuore non mente mai
Rimettiti a sognar!
Sboccerà 
Una gioia immensa che
Illuminerà
Il nuovo giorno

A Mirella

Here's a live recording of one of the most famous and beautiful songs by Italian singer songwriter Luigi Tenco, "Mi sono innamorato di te".

Performed at Jazz at Kitano in New York City on April 23rd, 2014, in duo with Italian harpist Marcella Carboni, and recorded by Salvo Cascio.

It's a love song, so close your eyes and dream...

Mi Sono Innamorato Di Te

A personal rendition of the well-known Jazz standard by Cole Porter with additional lyrics by me!

Laura Campisi Jazz 3io
feat.
Laura Campisi - vocals
Quebert "Q" Morrow - guitar
Yoshi Waki - doublebass

Recorded on July 17th, 2014 at Flux Studios - Manhattan
Mixed by Salvo Cascio in Brooklyn

What is this thing called love

Feat. Quebert "Q" Morrow on guitar

Recorded on July 17th, 2014 at Flux Studios - Manhattan
Mixed by Salvo Cascio in Brooklyn

Tenderly

Laura Campisi Jazz 3io
feat.
Laura Campisi - vocals
Quebert "Q" Morrow - guitar
Yoshi Waki - doublebass

Recorded on July 17th, 2014 at Flux Studios - Manhattan
Mixed by Salvo Cascio in Brooklyn

Nature Boy

This is a work in progress on one my latest songs...
Just like a flower in bloom.

Vocals, lyrics and composition: Laura Campisi
Guitar and composition: Gabriele Giambertone

October In New York

Writtend and sung by Laura Campisi
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Arranged and recorded by Salvo Cascio and Gabriele Giambertone (guitars)
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El. guitar by Luca El Red
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Produced by Campisi, Cascio, Giambertone
Recorded in Palermo, Sicily in the summer of 2014

Pretty Rough Busisness

A traditional Sicilian song ("The crown") about a girl that refuses to be crowned because all she cares about is her lover.

Re-arranged and recorded in 2007, featuring Gabriele Giambertone on guitar.

'A curuna

I'm not a ukulele player but I was having some fun with it at home, singing one of my favorite Bob Dylan tunes, so I thought I'd share... Buon Ascolto!

It Ain't Me Babe

I wrote this song in the Summer of 2018 to propose to the love of my life... And he said yes!!  :)

Music by me and Lorenzo Di Marcoberardino
Lyrics by me

All your life, you see
You’ve been waiting for me
All my life, it’s true
I’ve been waiting for you

You’re my best friend, my boo
Since I met you my heart is with you
And whatever you do 
Just know I love you, yes I do

To have and to hold from this moment on
For better, for worse would you be my home?
In sickness and health whatever may be
Love of my life, would you marry me?

Time goes by so fast
We have no time to waste
So forgive me if I ask
But I can’t let this feeling pass

You’re the best man I know
You’re my rock, a mate for my soul
And wherever you are
We’re together, no matter how far

To have and to hold from this moment on
For better, for worse would you be my home?
In sickness and health whatever may be
Love of my life, would you marry me?

Marry Me

One of my compositions, recorded within my project Lalla into the garden in 2009.
It's a song about the lonely role of the artist in the society and the strenght required to persue your dreams...

Lyrics:
POLVERE  
(Laura Campisi)

Scrivi poeta dei giorni che
Son da venire da soli per me…

Ma come faccio a fidarmi di te
Che sei fuori di me?
La vita mi porta fin qui
E questo è il resoconto
Mi dicono di star tranquilla
Ma tanto non cambiano il corso, lo so
E conta soltanto la forza che forse non ho.

Mi appoggio sui tasti così
Esco fuori di me
Le impronte dei piedi son mie
Ma non ne ho altre intorno
Ritorno nel corpo che accarezza i tasti 
E ripenso ad un tema di jazz
Ne ho avuti di sogni, ne ho viste di strade
E son qua

Scrivi poeta dei giorni che
Son da venire da soli per me
Passa una mano sul cuore e va via
La polvere ma ne rimane la scia.

Polvere in girotondo
Che ti agiti sopra il mondo
Non sempre si può cadere
Ma rialzarsi a chi conviene? …

Polvere in girotondo
Che ti agiti sopra il mondo
Non sempre si può cadere
Ma rialzarsi a chi conviene? …

Scrivi poeta dei giorni che
Son da venire da soli per me
Passa una mano sul cuore e va via
La polvere ma ne rimane la scia.


Feat.
Gabriele Giambertone - guitar
Giuseppe Rizzo - guitar
Daniele Tesauro - accordion
Marco Di Fonte - cello
Carmelo Graceffa - drums

Polvere

Gianni Gebbia Magnetic Trio feat. Laura Campisi
Music by Gianni Gebbia & Gabrio Bevilacqua 
Lyrics by Laura Campisi

From the album Prospero: https://objet-a.bandcamp.com/album/prospero-gianni-gebbia-magnetic-trio

Cover art by Gianni Gebbia

PROSPERO  - Gianni Gebbia Magnetic Trio

Never Been So Well

By Laura Campisi NYC Trio 
feat. Ameen Saleem on doublebass and Brent Vaartstra on guitar

Everytime we say goodbye

A bittersweet love song by the great Italian singer songwriter Luigi Tenco.
From The "Laura Campisi NYC Trio" Demo (Brooklyn, 2012) featuring Ameen Saleem on bass and Brent Vaartstra on guitar

Se sapessi come fai

Considered the musical testament of Sicilian folk queen Rosa Balistreri, "Quannu Moru" ("When I Die") is a moving declaration of her undying love for Sicily. This version of her original composition is a voice and bass re-arrangement in a jazzy key, recorded in 2007 with bassist Marko Bonarius for our project 'Na Rosa e un Tulipanu.

Laura Campisi - vocals
Marko Bonarius - upright bass

Quannu Moru

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I AM SHARING HERE PIECES OF MY MUSICAL AND LIVE PATH, PICS MADE OF SOUND OF SOME THIRLLING MOMENTS, IMPORTANT TO ME. 

I CHOSE THE TRACKS BY THE ONLY CRITERION OF EMOTION. 
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Laura Campisi - Singer and songwriter

An award-winning songwriter and jazz singer based out in New York City, Laura has performed with various musical ensembles throughout Europe and America, and continues to produce a wide range of music: from Jazz, Folk and Rhythm & Blues, to traditional Sicilian and Mediterranean songs. She also writes original songs in English, Italian and Sicilian, and sings in Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Sicilian and Neapolitan.

International performance highlights of Laura Campisi include an Italian tour on January 2014 with the “Back Home” Trio (with special guest international saxophonist Gianni Gebbia) and on January 2013 with the Laura Campisi Roma Quartet; an appearance in the documentary film by director Nello Correale “La voce di Rosa”; the Rosa Balistreri e Alberto Favara Award in 2011 for her active role in spreading Sicilian music and culture in the world; a 2010 winter tour in New York City; first place at the 2010 Bianca D’Aponte Award, a competition dedicated to female songwriting; first place at the 2009 Lucca Jazz Donna Award, and a performance, later that year, at the Italian Embassy in Lisbon for the Festa della Repubblica; a tour in Paris in 2008; and an appearance at the Langnau Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 2004. Laura’s also featured on “Walnut Street Station”, a documentary film on the American and Italian Jazz scene in New York and New Jersey by director Gianluca Bozzo, shot in 2013 and to be released in 2014.

Laura regularly performs with Ameen Saleem, established American bassist and member of the Roy Hargrove’s quintet and big band. She has also performed with many accomplished international musicians such as Jon Davis, Tommy Campbell, Saul Rubin, Paul Jeffrey, Salvatore Bonafede, Gianluca Renzi, Fabio Morgera, Christos Rafalides and Gianpaolo Casati, to name a few. She also recently started a collaboration with the Pakistani cultural community in New York, getting Pakistani players involved in her bands, mixing their sounds with Jazz and Italian music. On the other hand, she’s challenging herself with Sufi traditional compositions in Sanskrit and with Panjabi music.

Since in New York, Laura has performed at many prestigious venues and clubs such as The Kitano, Bar Next Door, Zeb’s, New York University, Westchester Italian Cultural Center and the Italian American Museum, among others, and she keeps working constantly all around town. She has also performed at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, in front of 3.000 people, with the SGI Youth Ensemble.

Laura is working on her first official album, a double trio featuring International Jazz stars drummer Gregory Hutchinson and bassist Ameen Saleem, together with Italian bassist Gianluca Renzi and drummer Flavio Li Vigni, plus special guests Vincen Herring on sax and Giovanni Falzone on trumpet.

She is also an expert of Sicilian musical tradition and a musical clinician, with a Bachelor Degree in Musical Arts.

Laura Campisi

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