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Nina Simone: Nina Simone and Piano!

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Label: RCA Victor Records
Released: 1969
Time:
 49:37
Category: Vocal, Soul, Jazz
Producer(s): Stroud Productions
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.ninasimone.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Seems I'm Never Tired Lovin' You (Carolyn Franklin) - 3:01
[2] Nobody's Fault but Mine (Traditional) - 2:59
[3] I Think It's Going to Rain Today (Randy Newman) - 3:20
[4] Everyone's Gone to the Moon (Jonathan King) - 3:07
[5] Compensation (Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nina Simone) - 1:36
[6] Who Am I? (Leonard Bernstein) - 4:09
[7] Another Spring (Andy Badale, John Clifford) - 3:32
[8] The Human Touch (Charles Reuben) - 2:09
[9] I Get Along Without You Very Well [Except Sometimes] (Hoagy Carmichael) - 4:49
[10] The Desperate Ones (Eric Blau, Gérard Jouannest, Mort Shuman) - 4:42

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Nina Simone - Arranger, Piano

Paul Williams - Reissue Producer, Compilation Producer
Ray Hall - Engineer
Mike Hartry - Digital Transfers, Mixing
Bill Lacey - Audio Restoration
Jennifer Liebeskind - Research
Victoria Sarro - Project Director
Joseph Dylewski - Photography
David Nathan - Essay, Liner Notes
Tom Reed - Liner Notes in English
Werner Burkhardt - Liner Notes in German

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Recorded at the RCA Studios, New York City September 16 & October 1, 1968.



Her own best accompanist (especially during the crossover-happy '60s), Nina Simone sings and plays on this 1969 LP. With strident vocals and a thoughtful piano backing, Simone makes her own a pair of radically different (though similarly fatalistic) compositions, Blind Willie Johnson's "Nobody's Fault But Mine" and Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today." Her version of "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" leans dangerously close to avant-garde overkill, but she returns with good performances on "Compensation" and "Who Am I?" A great moment comes when a tambourine finally joins her midway through "Another Spring," and the lone jazz standard ("I Get Along Without You Very Well") is given a touching performance. In an era when Simone often veered from crossover to experimental, Nina Simone and Piano! is undeniably difficult, but frequently rewarding.

John Bush - All Music Guide



Nina Simone and Piano! is an album by American jazz singer-songwriter and pianist Nina Simone. On this concept album we only hear Simone's voice accompanied by her own piano playing. The album was critically acclaimed, but sold badly. Part of this was because the previous album 'Nuff Said! (1968), featured a surprise hit single ("Ain't Got No-I Got Life"), raising expectations which the concept driven And Piano! could not measure up to. Nina was very fond of this album, stating that instead of being remembered by "My Baby Just Cares for Me", she would've rather be remembered for Nina Simone and Piano!.

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