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Nina Simone at Town Hall - LP, CD

Name: LP Nina Simone: Nina Simone At Town Hall CLR
SKU: 787940
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Nina Simone

Jazz | Cool Jazz | Piano Blues | Vocal Jazz | Standards

1959

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LP Nina Simone: At Town Hall DLX | LTD

Deluxe Limited Edition w/ Bonus Tracks

Jazz Images 27. October 2017 Europe

Album Deluxe Edition Limited Edition Reissue

The unique twenty-six-year-old Simone, who made her New York concert debut in 1959. Her childhood dream was to become a classical piano star, but racism forced her to play in bars. So Simone recalled that when she finally got into the prestigious concert hall, she "walked like an Egyptian queen - slowly, quietly and gravely", hardly able to beli...

More ID: 76558 EAN: 8436569190456 Discogs ID: 11003719

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Title	At Town Hall DLX \| LTD
Artist	Nina Simone
More info	Deluxe Limited Edition w/ Bonus Tracks
Format	LP (vinyl)
Labels	Jazz Images
Country of issue	Europe
Date of publication	27. October 2017
First released	1959
Weight	230 g
EAN	8436569190456
Product ID	76558
Discogs ID	11003719
Discogs reviews	4.62

Nina Simone: At Town Hall DLX | LTD version on vinyl LP in deluxe limited edition. This particular edition was published in Europe in publishing company Jazz Images on 27. October 2017.

The unique twenty-six-year-old Simone, who made her New York concert debut in 1959. Her childhood dream was to become a classical piano star, but racism forced her to play in bars. So Simone recalled that when she finally got into the prestigious concert hall, she "walked like an Egyptian queen - slowly, quietly and gravely", hardly able to believe that there were finally no cigarettes to distract patrons and no out-of-tune piano. Backed by Jimmy Bond on bass and Al Heath on drums, Simone shows off a blend of her untamed, fiery power (she already sounds like she's lived many lives) and surprising subtlety on a mix of personal classics like The Other Woman and ballads like Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair and Billie Holiday's Fine and Mellow. The whole set also offers much more of her very distinctive piano improvisational approach - classical and jazz phrasing often explicitly wrestle with each other - than is the case on her later albums. Thunderous chords burst from the whispering piano opening of Summertime, Cotton Eye Joe is played as a passionate reflection, and Return Home is a thunderous piece of Simone sacred rolling, her voice screaming and cracking over frantic chord work.

Album spans genres Jazz, Cool Jazz, Piano Blues, Vocal Jazz and Standards. 180g 180 Vinyl Limited Edition.

Track list

A1	Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair	3:29 min
	Arranged By Nina Simone \| Written-By Traditional
A2	Exactly Like You	3:08 min
	Written-By Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh
A3	The Other Woman	2:55 min
	Written-By Jessie Mae Robinson, Nina Simone
A4	Under The Lowest	5:24 min
	Written-By Nina Simone
A5	You Can Have Him	5:51 min
	Written-By Irving Berlin
B1	Summertime (Parts 1 & 2)	5:40 min
	Written-By DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
B2	Cotton-Eyed Joe	2:53 min
	Written-By Traditional
B3	Return Home	5:23 min
	Written-By Nina Simone
B4	Wild Is The Wind	3:31 min
	Written-By Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington
B5	Fine And Mellow	3:30 min
	Written-By Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday
B6	My Baby Just Cares For Me	3:38 min
	Written-By Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson