Nina Simone

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Nina Simone#1

Posted: 1/7/07 at 9:59pm

I Love You Porgy

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

[aspen]

re: Nina Simone#2

Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:04pm

...It pleases me.

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[Unknown User]

re: Nina Simone#2

Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:09pm

Dr. Nina Simone is my favorite of all the jazz artists.

[PalJoey]

re: Nina Simone#3

Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:17pm

I've posted this here before, so forgive me if I repeat myself.

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I did once go to see Nina Simone do a free concert in the depths of Brooklyn at a baseball field back in the mid 80s. It hadn't been publicized very much, so the audience was mostly residents of the neighborhood, with only a few Manhattanites in the crowd. But it was packed, shoulder to shoulder, on a hot July night.

I will never forget the hushed response to Simone's slow angry rendition of Pirate Jenny. The audience had probably never heard of Brecht and Weill or Lotte Lenya or The Threepenny Opera. They just heard Nina singing about a girl who was "scrubbing the floors" and dreaming about killing all the "gentlemen" in the town, deciding whether to "kill them now or later," then leaving on the black freighter, looking nice with a ribbon in her hair.

It was chilling--and the most Brechtian rendition of that song I could imagine.

[aspen]

re: Nina Simone#4

Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:23pm

I recall a similar experience at a Diana Krall concert. There's just something about jazz when it's done really well...

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[miss pennywise]

re: Nina Simone#5

Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:25pm

Her rendition of "I Got It Bad" is so good!

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re: Nina Simone#6

Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:29pm

did Nina ever record Pirate Jenny?

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

[Mandi Moo]

re: Nina Simone#7

Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:32pm

There's a live recording of it on a few CDs.


I adore Nina Simone.

[Unknown User]

re: Nina Simone#8

Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:36pm

yes, she did.
its on her IN CONCERT album for the PHILLIPS label.
Nina Simone - In Concert/I Put a Spell on You

[miss pennywise]

re: Nina Simone#9

Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:43pm

Thank you, n69n. I just bought it.

Peter Gabriel credits Nina Simone as his greatest influence.

"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"

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[Unknown User]

re: Nina Simone#10

Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:52pm

im glad to be a good influence, miss p!

Dr. Nina Simone has many compilations out, but i think its best to hear the songs in their original context.

[jrb_actor]

re: Nina Simone#11

Posted: 1/8/07 at 2:38am

She's a LEGEND.

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[WonderBoy]

re: Nina Simone#12

Posted: 1/8/07 at 12:56pm

I f*cking love her version of "I Shall Be Released"!!!!

"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds." ~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns

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re: Nina Simone#13

Posted: 2/2/07 at 11:52pm

just downloaded Pirate Jenny off a live album on itunes.

OBSESSED.

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

[Pippin]

re: Nina Simone#14

Posted: 2/3/07 at 1:07pm

I have a live recording of her singing "The King of Love is Dead", in honor of Dr. King. It is Heart-stirring and breaking all at once.

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[NiteOwl]

re: Nina Simone#15

Posted: 2/3/07 at 2:50pm

i have been in love with this woman's voice since age 12.
my life isnt *complete* without listening to one of her songs during the course of the day.
sadly, never had the honor to see her perform live.
thanks for this thread!

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[Mandi Moo]

re: Nina Simone#16

Posted: 2/3/07 at 5:57pm

Has anyone else listened to Remixed and Reimagined? It came out in November, and I really like it. A lot.

[Unknown User]

re: Nina Simone#17

Posted: 2/3/07 at 6:12pm

the version of I GOT LIFE on Remixed and Reimagined is great! its a case of a remix really enhancing a song!
they kept the mix "period" & added horns (& it sounds like real horns, not samples), rather than just dubbing Dr. Simone's vocals over contemporary beats.