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| + ARTiST ........... Nina Simone |
| + ALBUM ............ Nina's Back |
| + LABEL ............ Charly Schallplatten GmbH |
| + CAT .............. CDGR 288 |
| + YEAR ............. 1999 |
| + GENRE ............ Jazz |
| + SOURCE ........... CDDA |
| + QUALiTY .......... 192kbps / 44,1Khz / Full Stereo |
| + RELEASE.DATE ..... 10.10.2003 |
| + SiZE ............. 54,3 MB |
| + LiNK ............. n/a |
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| 01.It's Cold Out There 05:32 |
| 02.I Sing Just To Know That I'm Alive 03:26 |
| 03.For A While 02:55 |
| 04.Fodder On Her Wings 05:09 |
| 05.Touching and Caring 05:29 |
| 06.Saratoga 03:20 |
| 07.You Must Have Another Lover 04:30 |
| 08.Porgy 04:58 |
| 09.I Loves You, Porgy 04:08 |
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| (T!) TOTAL 39:27 min |
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| Nina's back |
| Nina Simone : Charly Schallplatten GmbH |
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| Of all the major singers of the late 20th century, Nina Simone was |
| one of the hardest to classify. She recorded extensively in the |
| soul, jazz, and pop idioms, often over the course of the same |
| album; she was also comfortable with blues, gospel, and Broadway. |
| It's perhaps most accurate to label her as a "soul" singer in |
| terms of emotion, rather than form. Like, say, Aretha Franklin, or |
| Dusty Springfield, Simone was an eclectic who brought soulful |
| qualities to whatever material she interpreted. These qualities |
| were among her strongest virtues; paradoxically, they also may |
| have kept her from attaining a truly mass audience. The same could |
| be said of her stage persona; admired for her forthright honesty |
| and individualism, she was also known for feisty feuding with |
| audiences and promoters alike. |
| If Simone had a chip on her shoulder, it probably arose from the |
| formidable obstacles she had to overcome to establish herself as a |
| popular singer. Raised in a family of eight children, she |
| originally harbored hopes of becoming a classical pianist, |
| studying at New York's prestigious Juilliard School of Music ù a |
| rare position for an African-American woman in the 1950s. Needing |
| to support herself while she studied, she generated income by |
| working as an accompanist and giving piano lessons. Auditioning |
| for a job as a pianist in an Atlantic City nightclub, she was told |
| she had the spot if she would sing as well as play. Almost by |
| accident, she began to carve a reputation as a singer of secular |
| material, though her skills at the piano would serve her well |
| throughout her career. |
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| In the late '50s, Simone began recording for the small Bethlehem |
| label (a subsidiary of the vastly important early R&B/rock & roll |
| King label). In 1959, her version of George Gershwin's "I Loves |
| You Porgy" gave her a Top 20 hit ù which would, amazingly, prove |
| to be the only Top 40 entry of her career. Nina wouldn't need hit |
| singles for survival, however, establishing herself not with the |
| rock & roll/R&B crowd, but with the adult/nightclub/album market. |
| In the early '60s, she recorded no less than nine albums for the |
| Candix label, about half of them live. These unveiled her as a |
| performer of nearly unsurpassed eclecticism, encompassing |
| everything from Ellingtonian jazz and Israeli folk songs to |
| spirituals and movie themes. |
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| Simone's best recorded work was issued on Philips during the |
| mid-'60s. Here, as on Candix, she was arguably over-exposed, |
| issuing seven albums within a three-year period. These records can |
| be breathtakingly erratic, moving from warm ballad interpretations |
| of Jacques Brel and Billie Holiday and instrumental piano workouts |
| to brassy pop and angry political statements in a heartbeat. |
| There's a great deal of fine music to be found on these, however. |
| Simone's moody-yet-elegant vocals were like no one else's, |
| presenting a fiercely independent soul who harbored enormous (if |
| somewhat hard-bitten) tenderness. |
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| Like many African-American entertainers of the mid-'60s, Simone |
| was deeply affected by the Civil Rights Movement and burgeoning |
| Black Pride. Some (though by no means most) of her best material |
| from this time addressed these concerns in a fashion more |
| forthright than almost any other singer. "Old Jim Crow" and, more |
| particularly, the classic "Mississippi Goddam" were especially |
| notable self-penned efforts in this vein, making one wish that |
| Nina had written more of her own material instead of turning to |
| outside sources for most of her repertoire. |
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| Not that this repertoire wasn't well-chosen. Several of her covers |
| from the mid-'60s, indeed, were classics: her revision of |
| Weill-Brecht's "Pirate Jenny" to reflect the bitter elements of |
| African-American experience, for instance, or her mournful |
| interpretation of Brel's "Ne Me Quitte Pas." Other highlights were |
| her versions of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," covered by the |
| Animals for a rock hit; "I Put a Spell on You," which influenced |
| the vocal line on the Beatles' "Michelle"; and the buzzing, jazzy |
| "See Line Woman." |
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| Simone was not as well-served by her tenure with RCA in the late |
| '60s and early '70s, another prolific period which saw the release |
| of nine albums. These explored a less eclectic range, with a |
| considerably heavier pop-soul base to both the material and |
| arrangements. One bona fide classic did come out of this period: |
| "Young, Gifted & Black," written by Simone and Weldon Irvine Jr., |
| would be successfully covered by both Aretha Franklin and Donny |
| Hathaway. She did have a couple of Top Five British hits in the |
| late '60s with "Ain't Got No" (from the musical Hair) and a cover |
| of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody," neither of which rank among |
| her career highlights. |
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| Simone fell on turbulent times in the 1970s, divorcing her |
| husband/manager Andy Stroud, encountering serious financial |
| problems, and becoming something of a nomad, settling at various |
| points in Switzerland, Liberia, Barbados, France, and Britain. |
| After leaving RCA, she recorded rarely, although she did make the |
| critically well-received Baltimore in 1978 for the small CTI |
| label. She had an unpredictable resurgence in 1987, when an early |
| track, "My Baby Just Cares for Me," became a big British hit after |
| being used in a Chanel perfume television commercial. In 1993, her |
| record A Single Woman marked her return to an American major |
| label, and her profile was also boosted when several of her songs |
| were featured in the film Point of No Return. She published her |
| biography, I Put a Spell on You, in 1991, but grew increasingly |
| frail throughout the late '90s and had to be helped on to the |
| stage during a 2001 Carnegie Hall performance. Nina Simone died on |
| April 21, 2003 at her home in Carry-le-Rouet, France, where she |
| had been spending much of her retirement. |
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| Nina Simone - Vocal, piano |
| Hence Powell - Keyboards, Trumpet, Coronet |
| Arthur Adams - Guitars, Bass |
| Ray Brown - Trumpet |
| Allan Barnes - Saxophone |
| George Bohannon - Trombone |
| Luke Metoyer - Percussion |
| The Waters Family - Background Vocals |
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