THE AMAZING NINA SIMONE (2020) Additions: I Loves You, Porgy; Falling In Love Again; That's All; The Man With A Horn; Since My Love Has Gone; If Only For Tonight; Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out; Come On Back, Jack; I Love To Love (Live); My Baby Just Cares Fo...
originally birthed just three years after Simone’s first professional gig at the Midtown Bar & Grille in Atlantic City, as bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath walked with her arm-in-arm instrumentally during its making, the three grooving easily together. Somehow,Little...
As an adult, Simone released her debut studio albumLittle Girl Bluein 1959. Simone released dozens of albums throughout her music career, with popular songs such as “I Put a Spell On You”, “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black” and “Feeling Good”. In 2019, Simone’s civil rights anth...
This would be her first new studio album in six years and she recorded it in Belgium with strings and background vocals cut in New York City. With the kind of “clean” sound that was a hallmark of CTI recordings, the Nina Simone album that emerged was simply brilliant. Nina herself ...
Nina Simone debuted her elegant take on “Wild Is the Wind” on 1959’s At Town Hall—a year after Johnny Mathis scored an Oscar nod for the standard—though it would be another seven years before Simone introduced her ominous studio version. Wild Is the Wind, one of three albums Simone...
TheTidal streamsounds solid in 16-bit, 44.1 kHz CD quality and the download is handy for mobile applications. While this album is not available in MQA there ARE a number ofotherNina Simone albums up on Tidal in that audiophile format (marked with an “M” in...
As with so many other jazz greats, gospel music and the church would shape Nina Simone’s musical direction. She was difficult to work with at times, but her singing was always fabulous; never afraid to try to do different things she stands alone as a unique voice in contemporary music. ...
On 15 July, these seven albums will be released in the gorgeous 7LP/7CD box set,The Philips Years. A celebration of Simone’s remarkable talents, the set contains many of the songs that Simone’s legacy is built upon – not only well-known cuts such as ‘I Put A Spell On You’ and...
Free Essays from Bartleby | this notion, she decided to take a stage name. She chose Nina – an affectionate term that an ex-boyfriend used to call her...
Little Girl Blue (LGB), a musical inspired by Nina Simone’s life, written by and starring Laiona Michelle (Amazing Grace, Book of Mormon, American Hero), will open Off-Broadway at the Shubert Organization’s New World Stages (Stage V) on March 14, 2022, with previews beginning on ...