During her stint with RCA in the late '60s and early '70s, Nina Simone pursued a more consciously pop-soul direction than previously. The Essential Nina Simone, Vol. 2...
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Verve gets a lot of mileage out of its jazz catalog by repackaging a lot of material under loose thematic configurations. After Hours, as you could probably guess from the...
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On this celebrity's choice tour through the Verve archives, singer Dianne Reeves comes up with a most interesting, idiosyncratic selection of the Philips recordings of Nina...
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Nina Simone recorded for RCA Records between 1967 and 1972. While she was in fine form during those years, she didn't make her best records there and she particularly...
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In 1998, Collectables released Forbidden Fruit/Nina Simone at Newport, which contained two complete albums -- Forbidden Fruit (1961, originally released on Colpix) and Nina...
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This reissue combines two of Simone's Colpix albums, Folksy Nina (1964) and Nina with Strings (1966), onto a single CD. Though it was taken from the same performance as...
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Compiled from her RCA years of the late 1960s and early 1970s, this 16-track collection of Nina Simone performances includes a dozen unreleased songs, along with "Sunday in...
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A ragtag double-CD anthology that ranges all over the place: solo jazz piano, show tunes, soul, and live versions of many of her best-known songs, seemingly taken from the...
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The sequel to Nina Simone's Verve Jazz Masters, Vol. 17, Verve Jazz Masters, Vol. 58: Nina Simone Sings Nina features a selection of Simone's original songs, as well as her...
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Simone recorded prolifically during her affiliation with Colpix in the late '50s and early '60s. This 40-song, two-CD set presents choice extracts from approximately ten...
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This Collectables package pairs Nina Simone's 1962 Colpix release Sings Duke Ellington and At Carnegie Hall from the following year. Eighteen tracks in all with over 68...
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Verve's Finest Hour collection of Nina Simone's work compiles 60 minutes of career highlights, including "Wild Is the Wind," "I Put a Spell on You," "Four Women," "I Loves...
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This budget compilation of legendary jazz vocalist Nina Simone is by no means the definitive overview of her career -- Bittersweet: The Very Best of Nina Simone comes the...
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The beauty of a compilation released 43 years after the first three tracks on this disc were recorded and 29 years after the most recent recording (the rendition of the...
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Most of the music on this CD reissue dates from 1966-67, featuring the unique singer-pianist Nina Simone joined by a funky rhythm section (with Eric Gale and Rudy Stevenson...
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Nineteen tracks from her Colpix label recordings. Dating from 1959 to 1963, this mix of studio and live material is considerably more weighted toward jazz and standards by...
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Nina Simone has penned unforgettable protest material, covered jazz, folk, rock, and pop with equal flair, and created a body of work that's kept her popularity high. While...
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Simone's inclusion in Verve's "Jazz Masters" series is a bit suspect; there was a lot of jazz in Simone, true, but wasn't there quite a bit of pop and soul as well, not to...
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This album was apparently a bit of a pastiche of leftovers from sessions for her four previous albums on Philips. But you'd never guess from listening; the material is...
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The Best of Nina Simone presents 12 tracks taken from the many recordings Simone did for Phillips in the '60s. As is often noted, Simone is a dynamic and powerful vocal...
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A treasure. Simone as she should be heard--live and with minimal backup. While Ella Fitzgerald made sad standards seem joyful, Simone has the opposite effect. The usually...
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Nina Simone has the rare ablity of really being able to dig into material and bring out unexpected meaning in familiar lyrics. On "Just In Time" from this CD reissue, she...
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There's a lot more Broadway and a lot more ballads than blues on this, which ranks as one of her weaker mid-'60s albums. Almost half the record features Broadway tunes on...
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Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood is a compilation assembling songs from a fruitful period in Simone's career (the mid-'60s, when she recorded for Mercury and Phillips). The...
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Perhaps a bit more conscious of contemporary soul trends than her previous Philips albums, this is still very characteristic of her mid-'60s work in its eclectic mix of...
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One of her most pop-oriented albums, but also one of her best and most consistent. Most of the songs feature dramatic, swinging large-band orchestration, with the accent on...
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In 1991, these two excellent Nina Simone albums from the mid-'60s (Nina Simone in Concert and I Put a Spell on You) were combined on a single compact disc. ~ Sean...
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One of her more adult pop-oriented mid-'60s albums, with renditions of tunes by Duke Ellington ("Mood Indigo"), Billie Holiday ("Don't Explain"), Irving Berlin ("This Year's...
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Simone's debut, also known as Jazz As Played In An Exclusive Side Street Club, most of the tracks on this album are still Simone staples. "I Loves You Porgy," "My Baby Just...
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Evidence's CD reissues Nina Simone's first recording which originally came out on Bethlehem. Backed by bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Al "Tootie" Heath, Simone gives a...
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Nina Simone has the rare ability of really being able to dig into material and bring out unexpected meaning in familiar lyrics. On "Just in Time" from this CD reissue, she...
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In 1990, Mercury combined two mid-'60s albums by Nina Simone (Pastel Blues and Let It All Out) on to a single compact disc. ~ Sean Westergaard, All Music...
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If this is blues, it's blues in the Billie Holiday sense, not the Muddy Waters one. This is one of Nina Simone's more subdued mid-'60s LPs, putting the emphasis on her piano...
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Vocalist, composer and pianist Nina Simone returned from a lengthy self-imposed exile in 1993 with an autobiography and outstanding CD highlighting her still impressive...
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A good and sensible single-disc reissue of two early Simone albums, both recorded in the late '50s and both among her more jazz-oriented outings. The Amazing Nina Simone, a...
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Legendary jazz vocalist Nina Simone has three of her harder-to-find releases compiled here on this bargain three-fer. Released by U.K. label Westside in 1999. ~ Chris True,...
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Her own best accompanist (especially during the crossover-happy '60s), Nina Simone sings and plays on this 1970 LP. With strident vocals and a thoughtful piano backing,...
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Nina Simone spent time recording with Verve or the associated Philips during the mid-'60s, so her entry in the label's 2003 The Diva Series focuses on that period, when she...
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Nina Simone recorded seven albums for the Philips label between 1964 and 1966. It was the period in her career in which her reputation was cemented as a world-class artist,...
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In appearance, this two-disc anthology would seem to be an exercise in hearse chasing, issued just months after the great singer's death. In reality, no matter what the...
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This second of two Nina Simone compilations issued in 2005 (and third in two years), For Lovers focuses on Simone's crucial tenure on the Verve imprint. It's not a thorough...
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There is a remarkable amount of variety on this disc, Nina Simone's second recording. Her repertoire ranges from a swinging "Stompin' at the Savoy" and an emotional "It...
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The second of two ballads compilations to be issued in January of 2005 (the second being Nina Simone for Lovers), Love Songs likewise shouldn't be confused with BMG's 2004...
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Unlike the many two-fer compilations that include pairings based on a common theme or close release dates, this British Camden Deluxe package -- comprising 1970's Nina...
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In 2002, BMG International released To Love Somebody/Here Comes the Sun, which contained two albums -- To Love Somebody (1971, originally released on RCA) and Here Comes the...
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Gathering three of the four live albums Nina Simone released during her time at RCA, the double-disc package Emergency Ward!/It Is Finished/Black Gold certainly reissues a...
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The BMG International collection Love Songs gathers material from Nina Simone's stint at RCA during the late '60s and '70s. This was not the most fruitful period of her...
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This Australian compilation gathers 21 songs from a small period in the career of Nina Simone, the 1967-1968 era of the British hit "Ain't Got No (I Got Life)" and LPs like...
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One of Nina Simone's finest recordings, this Colpix LP features the unique singer/pianist performing classic versions of "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair," "The...
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