While any new album by Laura Nyro is to be received with thanks and a smart tug at the forelock, it must be said that "Season Of Lights" is one of the most disappointing releases of the year. A live album …, "Season Of Lights" is no honourable successor to last year's memorable (and curiously underestimated) "Smile" and in no way challenges the achievements of Nyro's classic records, especially the epic "New York Tendaberry" or the accomplished versatility of "Christmas And The Beads Of Sweat," both of which stand among the best American records of the last decade (and that's NO overstatement, Bub). The songs she has selected for inclusion here are drawn from each separate stage of her artistic development (with a slight emphasis, perhaps, on her earlier work), and reflect thoughtfully her progression from precocious teenager ("When I Die"), tormented poet of the city ("Captain St. Lucifer...