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The Legend at Her Best [Box]  -  CD

Artist:

Nina Simone

| SKU:  11475879
Release Date:  4/4/2000
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Songs

 

Disc 1

1. Blue Prelude(3:22)
2. Children Go Where I Send You(2:52)
3. Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)(3:02)
4. Stompin' at the Savoy(2:11)
5. It Might as Well Be Spring(3:56)
6. You've Been Gone Too Long(2:13)
7. That's Him Over There(2:31)
8. Chilly Winds Don't Blow(2:43)
9. Theme from "Middle of the Night"(2:30)
10. Can't Get Out of This Mood(2:33)
11. Willow Weep for Me(3:14)
12. Solitaire(3:28)
13. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair(3:32)
14. Exactly Like You(3:14)
15. The Other Woman(3:01)
16. Under the Lowest(5:32)
17. I Don't Want Him (Anymore)(5:49)
18. Summertime(2:54)
19. Summertime(2:43)
20. Cotton Eyed Joe(2:53)
21. Return Home(5:28)
22. Wild Is the Wind(3:29)
23. Fine and Mellow(3:31)

Disc 2

1. Rags and Old Iron(4:08)
2. No Good Man(3:39)
3. Gin House Blues(3:06)
4. I'll Look Around(5:08)
5. I Love to Love(3:27)
6. Work Song(2:36)
7. Where Can I Go Without You?(2:51)
8. Just Say I Love Him(6:39)
9. Memphis in June(2:39)
10. Forbidden Fruit(3:50)
11. Trouble in Mind(5:41)
12. Porgy(5:10)
13. Li'l Liza Jane(4:31)
14. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To(5:24)
15. Flo Me La(7:12)
16. Nina's Blues(6:10)
17. In the Evening by the Moonlight(6:09)

Details

Format
CD(2)
Release Date
4/4/2000
Original Release Date
8/1/2000
Length
155 minutes , 1 seconds
Genre
General
Label
Collectables
Studio/Live
Mixed
Mono/Stereo
Mixed
UPC
090431003626

Release Notes

The Legend at Her Best [Box]: Release Notes: Muze 
THE LEGEND AT HER BEST contains 4 LPs on 2 CDs: THE AMAZING NINA SIMONE (1959)/NINA SIMONE AT TOWN HALL(1959)/FORBIDDEN FRUIT(1961)/AT NEWPORT(1960).Also available on Collectables as two separate 2-for-1 CDs.Collectables dishes up four Nina Simone recordings from the late '50s and early '60s on a double-disc set. The first two -- The Original Nina Simone and Nina Simone at Town Hall -- were issued on the respected jazz and blues label Bethlehem in 1959, and the latter two -- Nina Simone at Newport (1960) and Forbidden Fruit (1961) -- were released on Colpix. The quality of these fairly early recordings, done in the first half-decade of Simone's recording career, cannot be overestimated. She was already in charge of her game, recording everything from big-band jazz arrangements and blues to more dramatic concert hall folk and popular material. Her piano playing was already in place and her control -- check "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair," "It Might as Well Be Spring," or Oscar Brown's "Forbidden Fruit" for evidence -- is already otherworldly. Arrangements are from the simple to the sophisticated, and the soulful, dramatic, and slow intense smoldering in her contralto is simply stunning. For those who want to investigate Simone's material beyond the usual compilations, this is a great start. ~ Thom Jurek

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