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Essential Early Recordings - Nina Simone

Essential Early Recordings

Nina Simone  

Format: 2 CD

Genre: jazz

Barcode: 0805520090995

 

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Artist

American singer, songwriter, pianist.

Born: 21 February 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina, USA.
Died: 21 April 2003 in Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône, France (aged 70).

Nina was giving piano recitals after playing at her local church at an early age. Her childhood piano lessons were funded by her mother's employer and a local fund set up by her music teacher, so impressed were they by her talent.

She moved to Philadelphia aged 17, teaching piano and playing to raise the money for her studies at New York's renowned Juilliard School Of Music. To fund her family she worked in a bar in Atlantic City where she was also required to sing and built up a devoted following.

She recorded Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" which became a US Top 40 hit and transported her to a bigger stage, performing at Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival.

Her repertoire went on to embrace numerous Civil Rights anthems, a movement for which she was a passionate and prominent supporter. She left the US in the 1970s, moving first to Barbados, and some other places, including Africa and the Netherlands, before eventually settling in France where she died from cancer in 2003.

Nina's voice drew heavily on other music forms. It was infused with gospel, blues, soul, jazz, R&B, and folk. And it found a wider audience late in her life when "My Baby Just Cares For Me" became an unlikely UK chart hit when it featured in a TV ad campaign.

In fact her music stayed very popular with advertisers as her tracks have been used to promote a multitude of products on TV, including yoghurt ("Ain't Got No (I Got Life)"), Diet Coke ("I Put A Spell On You"), cars ("Sinnerman"), fabric conditioner ("Feeling Good"), and perfume ("Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"), et al.

Tracks

1-1  My Baby Just Cares For Me  03:34

1-2  Don't Smoke In Bed  03:08

1-3  Mood Indigo  03:58

1-4  He Needs Me  02:26

1-5  Love Me Or Leave Me  03:19

1-6  Good Bait  05:24

1-7  Central Park Blues  03:02

1-8  You'll Never Walk Alone  03:44

1-9  Plain Gold Ring  03:46

1-10  Little Girl Blue  04:15

1-11  For All We Know  03:58

1-12  He's Got The Whole World In His Hands  03:07

1-13  African Mailman  03:07

1-14  I Loves You Porgy  04:07

1-15  Blue Prelude  03:20

1-16  Children Go Where I Send You  02:50

1-17  Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)  02:59

1-18  Stompin' At The Savoy  02:08

2-1  It Might As Well Be Spring  03:53

2-2  You've Been Gone Too Long  02:10

2-3  That's Him Over There  02:29

2-4  Chilly Winds Don't Blow  02:41

2-5  Theme From "Middle Of The Night"  02:27

2-6  Can't Get Out Of This Mood  02:31

2-7  Willow Weep For Me  03:11

2-8  Solitaire  03:25

2-9  Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair  03:30

2-10  Exactly Like You  03:11

2-11  The Other Woman  02:59

2-12  Under The Lowest  05:30

2-13  I Don't Want Him (Anymore)  05:47

2-14  Summertime  02:40

2-15  Cotton Eyed Joe  02:50

2-16  Return Home  05:26

2-17  Wild Is The Wind  03:27

2-18  Fine And Mellow  03:30

Releases

Formats

CD, Vinyl

Labels

Le Chant Du Monde, Real Gone, Primo

Countries

France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Europe

years

2010, 2011

Members

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