Nobody but Me
Michael Bublé
Pop - Released October 21, 2016 | Reprise
My Baby Just Cares for Me (Pompignan Take)
Jacky Terrasson
Jazz - Released March 22, 2024 | naïve
Jazz Volume: Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Jazz - Released November 15, 2022 | UME - Global Clearing House
Spotlight on Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Jazz - Released December 14, 2020 | UME - Global Clearing House
Pieces of Treasure
Rickie Lee Jones
Jazz - Released April 28, 2023 | Modern Recordings
Little Girl Blue
Nina Simone
Jazz - Released June 1, 2021 | BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Nina
Kareen Guiock-Thuram
Jazz - Released April 28, 2023 | BLUE LINE
The Montreux Years
Nina Simone
Soul - Released June 25, 2021 | BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
Strangers In The Night
Frank Sinatra
Jazz - Released January 1, 1966 | FRANK SINATRA DIGITAL REPRISE
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book
Ella Fitzgerald
Vocal Jazz - Released January 1, 1959 | Verve Reissues
The Capitol Studios Sessions
Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra
Jazz - Released November 9, 2018 | Decca (UMO)
Songs From The Last Century
George Michael
Pop - Released January 5, 1999 | Sony Music UK
My American Songbook
Judi Jackson
Jazz - Released November 10, 2023 | Judi Jackson
Little Girl Blue (1958)
Nina Simone
Vocal Jazz - Released January 1, 1958 | Bethlehem Records
Little Girl Blue, released in 1957, was Nina Simone's first recording, originally issued on the Bethlehem label. Backed by bassist Jimmy Bond and Albert "Tootie" Heath, it showcases her ballad voice as one of mystery and sensuality and showcases her uptempo jazz style with authority and an enigmatic down-home feel that is nonetheless elegant. The album also introduced a fine jazz pianist. Simone was a solid improviser who never strayed far from the blues. Check the opener, her reading of Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo," which finger-pops and swings while keeping the phrasing deep-blue. It is contrasted immediately with one of the -- if not the -- definitive reads of Willard Robison's steamy leave-your-lover ballad "Don't Smoke in Bed." The title track, written by Rodgers & Hart, features "Good King Wenceslas" as a classical prelude to one of the most beautiful pop ballads ever written. It is followed immediately by the funky swing in "Love Me or Leave Me" with a smoking little piano solo in the bridge where Bach meets Horace Silver and Bobby Timmons. It's also interesting to note that while this was her first recording, the record's grooves evidence an artist who arrives fully formed; many of the traits Simone displayed throughout her career as not only a vocalist and pianist but as an arranger are put on first notice here. "My Baby Just Cares for Me" has a stride shuffle that is extrapolated on in the piano break. Her instrumental and improvising skills are put to good use on Tadd Dameron's "Good Bait," which is transformed into something classical from its original bebop intent. "You'll Never Walk Alone" feels more like some regal gospel song than the Rodgers & Hammerstein show tune it was. Of course, one of Simone's signature tunes was her version of "I Loves You, Porgy," which appears here for the first time and was released as a single. Her own "Central Park Blues" is one of the finest jazz tunes here, and it is followed with yet another side of Simone's diversity in her beautiful take on the folk-gospel tune "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," with quiet and determined dignity and drama. Another of her instrumentals compositions, "African Mailman," struts proud with deep Afro-Caribbean roots and rhythms.© Thom Jurek /TiVo
Live At Jamboree, Barcelona
Scott Hamilton
Vocal Jazz - Released November 26, 2013 | Swit Records
Ledisi Sings Nina
Ledisi
Jazz - Released July 23, 2021 | BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
My Soul Kitchen
Ida Sand
Jazz - Released October 26, 2018 | ACT Music
Cloud 7
Tony Bennett
Crooners - Released July 21, 2023 | Columbia - Legacy
Skylark
Renee Olstead
Pop - Released January 1, 2009 | 143 - Reprise