Nina Simone - Four Women: The Nina Simone Phillips Recordings [Box]

Artist:

Simone, Nina

UPC:

044006502120

See Also:

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Description:

FOUR WOMEN: THE NINA SIMONE PHILLIPS RECORDINGS contains 7 LPs on 4 CDs: NINA SIMONE IN CONCERT (1964)/BROADWAY-BLUES-BALLADS (1964)/I PUT A SPELL ON YOU (1965)/PASTEL BLUES (1965)/LET IT ALL OUT (1965)/WILD IS THE WIND (1965)/HIGH PRIESTESS OF SOUL (1966).
Personnel includes: Nina Simone (vocals, piano); Rudy Stevenson (guitar); Lisle Atkinson (bass, percussion); Bobby Hamilton (drums).
Producer: Hal Mooney.
Compilation producer: Bryan Koniarz.
Recorded between 1964 & 1966. Includes liner notes by Ashley Kahn.
FOUR WOMEN was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes.
Personnel: Nina Simone (vocals, piano); Rudy Stevenson (guitar, flute); Al Schackman (guitar, harmonica); Bobby Hamilton (drums); Lisle Atkinson (percussion).
Liner Note Author: Ashley Kahn.
Recording information: New York, NY (03/21/1964-08/26/1966).
Photographers: Peter Basch; Burt Goldblatt; Herb Snitzer; Jan Persson.
Arrangers: Hal Mooney; Horace Ott; Nina Simone.
Although Nina Simone`s years at RCA have their passionate devotees, most fans believe her mid-`60s tenure at Philips was the pinnacle of her career. Indeed, her first album for the label, 1964`s still-startling NINA SIMONE IN CONCERT, is probably Simone`s single finest album of all time, introducing such masterpieces as her chilling reinterpretation of Kurt Weill`s "Pirate Jenny" and the anti-segregation broadside "Mississippi Goddam," which she delivers with absolutely brutal humor. The six studio albums that followed are all included in full, and each of them continues Simone`s no-boundaries musical worldview (one album was called BROADWAY-BLUES-BALLADS, and she cut the occasional pop song, like her dramatic remake of the Animals` "Don`t Let Me Be Misunderstood"), her increasingly socio-political choices of material, and above all, her absolute mastery of the jazz vocal form. Beautifully packaged and extensively annotated, this four-disc set is a perfect overview of some of the `60s` finest and most uncompromising vocal jazz.

Track Listing:

DISC 1: NINA SIMONE IN CONCERT/BROADWAY-BLUES-BALLADS:

1. I Loves You, Porgy - (live)
2. Plain Gold Ring - (live)
3. Pirate Jenny - (live)
4. Old Jim Crow - (live)
5. Don`t Smoke in Bed - (live)
6. Go Limp - (live)
7. Mississippi Goddam - (live)
8. Don`t Let Me Be Misunderstood
9. Night Song
10. Laziest Gal in Town, The
11. Something Wonderful
12. Don`t Take All Night
13. Nobody
14. I Am Blessed
15. Of This I`m Sure
16. See Line Woman
17. Our Love (Will See Us Through)
18. How Can I?
19. Last Rose of Summer, The

DISC 2: I PUT A SPELL ON YOU/PASTEL BLUES:

1. I Put a Spell on You
2. Tomorrow Is My Turn
3. Ne Me Quitte Pas
4. Marriage Is for Old Folks
5. July Tree
6. Gimme Some
7. Feeling Good
8. One September Day
9. Blues on Purpose
10. Beautiful Land
11. You`ve Got to Learn
12. Take Care of Business
13. Be My Husband
14. Nobody Knows You When You`re Down and Out
15. End of the Line
16. Trouble in Mind
17. Tell Me More and More and Then Some
18. Chilly Winds Don`t Blow
19. Ain`t No Use
20. Strange Fruit
21. Sinner Man

DISC 3: LET IT ALL OUT/WILD IS THE WIND:

1. Mood Indigo
2. Other Woman, The
3. Love Me or Leave Me
4. Don`t Explain
5. Little Girl Blue
6. Chauffeur
7. For Myself
8. Ballad of Hollis Brown, The
9. This Year`s Kisses
10. Images
11. Nearer Blessed Lord
12. I Love Your Lovin` Ways
13. Four Women
14. What More Can I Say
15. Lilac Wine
16. That`s All I Ask
17. Break Down and Let It All Out
18. Why Keep on Breaking My Heart
19. Wild Is the Wind
20. Black Is the Color of My True Love`s Hair
21. If I Should Lose You
22. Either Way I Lose

DISC 4: HIGH PRIESTESS OF SOUL:

1. Don`t You Pay Them No Mind
2. I`m Gonna Leave You
3. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
4. Keeper of the Flame
5. Gal from Joe`s, The
6. Take Me to the Water
7. I`m Going Back Home
8. I Hold No Grudge
9. Come Ye
10. He Ain`t Comin` Home No More
11. Work Song
12. I Love My Baby
13. Monster, A

Album Information

Release Date:

05/20/2003

Type:

Boxed Set

Genre:

Pop Vocal

Subgenre:

Cabaret

Label:

Universal Distribution

Catalog Number:

0650212

Original Release Year:

2003

# of Discs:

4

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

251 : 29

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