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Never released on CD and out print for decades, this is one of Simones rarest recordings and a true collectors item! Nina Simone was a star, performing repertoire ranging from gospel music to African music, from blues to Ellington songs, from classical music to folk songs of diverse origin. A protest singer, jazz singer, pianist, arranger and composer, Nina Simone is a great artist who defies easy classification. Her biography can be found in jazz, rock, pop, black and soul literature. Her style and her hits provided many singers with material for hits of their own! Live recording, Germany, 1969. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.
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Creme de la Simone Creme...,
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This review is from: Very Rare Evening (Audio CD)
What an amazing album... The best Nina Simone live (or in my opinion studio) record on the market. Great rhythm section, wonderful selection of tunes, and the remaster is significantly better than the japanese import or the LP. Jazz Times agree, BUY THIS RECORD!
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Nina's Live Peak,
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This review is from: Very Rare Evening (Audio CD)
Nina Simone issued several good to great live albums. One or two were contractual obligations, or sound like it, but this is prime with terrific support. This was also when she finally had complete artistic control on RCA, though there seems to have been pressure to record pop songs (she charted in Europe a lot, a major star). All the same the pop songs she chose - the cream of the Bee Gees, a deconstruction of the Beatles' "Revolution" (she took it further until it was a new song entirely later), and later a mind-bending double-tracked "Cherish", were very good choices. Her earlier live albums tended to be coronations or as if they were in some personal church, so for me this is the best live Nina. Too bad it's on such an odd label it looks like a bootleg, and that will keep buyers away. I have the LP (which I cleaned and transferred) so look elsewhere for advice on the sound on this particular issue, but the source material - stellar.
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