Album
Best Of Nina Simone
2023 · Funk / Soul
3 collectors on Gatefold own this
Best Of Nina Simone is a Soul & Funk album by Nina Simone, originally released in 2023. On Gatefold: 3 pressings tracked, owned by 3 collectors.
About
Plucking standout material from Nina Simone’s Philips albums of 1964-67, this 1969 LP paints a portrait of one of America’s most searingly original and unclassifiable talents. Simone had an effortless fluency in jazz and blues, show tunes, and modern pop/rock, a classically inflected yet indelibly soulful piano style, and an emotionally wrenching and dynamically varied voice that Hal Mooney’s arrangements and production captured especially well. Oddly, there’s nothing here from <i>High Priestess of Soul</i>, but Simone’s six other Philips releases are well represented. The theatrical sing-speak of “Pirate Jenny,” the radical protest of “Mississippi Goddam,” the extended jam breakdown of “Sinnerman,” the chilling narrative crescendo of “Four Women”: There’s a singularly expressive quality in these immortal performances.
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Tracklist
- 1I Loves You, Porgy (Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 1964)2:33
- 2Mississippi Goddam (Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 1964)4:54
- 3The Other Woman (Live in New York, 1964)3:06
- 4Sinnerman (Live in New York, 1965)10:22
- 5Ne Me Quitte Pas3:37
- 6See-Line Woman2:38
- 7I Put a Spell On You2:38
- 8Break Down and Let It All Out2:39
- 9Four Women4:27
- 10Wild Is the Wind (Live)7:01
- 11Pirate Jenny (Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 1964)6:42
- 12Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood2:44
Sound DNA
- Soul & Funk
- Classic Soul
- raw
- intense
- political
Credits
The people behind it.
3 collectors on Gatefold own this · 3 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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