Nina Simone - Anthology
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Artist: Nina SimoneEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-07-01
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- I Loves You, Porgy
- My Baby Just Cares For Me
- The Other Woman
- Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
- Trouble In Mind
- Mississippi Goddam
- See Line Woman
- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
- I Put A Spell On You
- Ne Me Quitte Pas
- Strange Fruit
- Four Women
- Sinnerman
- Do I Move You?
- I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
- I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
- The Glory Of Love
- To Love Somebody
- Do What You Gotta Do
- Ain't Got No-I Got Life
- Why? (The King Of Love Is Dead)
- Everyone's Gone To The Moon
- Revolution
- To Be Young, Gifted And Black
- Who Knows Where The Time Goes
- Here Comes The Sun
- Just Like A Woman
- Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter
- Rich Girl
- A Single Woman
Free Music Notes for Anthology
Free Music Review: A brilliant musician who can do anything--and does on this CD!
Hit: 5 Stars
The fact that Nina Simone is not a household name, like Sarah Vaughan, is inconceivable. She's a brilliant musician--terrific singer, Juilliard-trained classical pianist who accompanies herself no matter what the genre is, and composer, arranger, and consummate actress with a song. On this anthology of thirty-one of her best songs, she is at her peak, doing it all with panache and all but hanging her soul out to dry.
In "I Loves You, Porgy," one of the many favorites on this CD, Simone performs the definitive version of this song, keeping it simple with a simple piano, often singing almost a capella, and often in a whisper, creating an honest and very dramatic mood. "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair," a folk tune, becomes a drama here with Simone totally controlling both the voice and accompaniment. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a passionate original song, is especially poignant and soulful, since we now know she was bipolar (and to some extent self-destructive) for her entire career, singing here about how her intentions are good though she often takes things out on others. Bessie Smith's "Nobody Knows You When You Are Down and Out," related in message, takes on new life in Simone's hands. "I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl," is an impassioned and unabashedly sexual plea for love.
A number of songs here are from the beginning of the civil rights protest movement in the early sixties, a time of great danger for activist performers. Her own song "Mississippi Goddam," which also references Tennessee and Alabama, is one of the first such songs, with "Four Women" (a song study of women of varying complexions) and their lives depicted vibrantly. "I Wish I Knew How It Felt to be Free," is sung like a revival hymn while "Revolution," is a rousing, hand-clapping inspirational tune. Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit," sung sensitively, contains greater anger than Billie's powerful, almost naïve, version. Her vocal tribute to Rev. Martin Luther King, "Why (The King of Love is Dead)," a quiet tribute to the man, asks the question "Will the murders never cease?"
For me the highlight of the CD is "Sinnerman," ten minutes of powerful, rock `em - sock `em, hand-clapping, folk revival music, a version you must hear to believe (and which you will never forget)! (It is song #14 of Disc One for an Amazon sample.) Though the CD also features torch songs, blues, soul, gospel, and pop, Simone is primarily a jazz singer extraordinaire, one of the most passionate of the era--but one who can do everything else, too. A CD that shows Simone in all her brilliant moods and at the peak of her powers. n Mary Whipple
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