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Nina Simone Sings the Blues, issued in 1967, was her RCA label debut, and was a brave departure from the material she had been recording for Phillips. Indeed, her final album for that label, High Priestess of Soul, featured the singer, pianist, and songwriter fronting a virtual orchestra. Here, Simone is backed by a pair of guitarists (Eric Gale and Rudy Stevenson), bassist (Bob Bushnell), drummer (Bernard "Pretty" Purdie), organist (Ernie Hayes), and harmonica player who doubled on saxophone (Buddy Lucas). Simone handled the piano chores. The song selection is key here. Because for all intents and purposes this is perhaps the rawest record Simone ever cut. It opens with the sultry, nocturnal, slow-burning original "Do I Move You," which doesn't beg the question but demands an answer: "Do I move you?/Are you willin'?/Do I groove you?/Is it thrillin'?/Do I soothe you?/Tell the truth now?/Do I move you?/Are you loose now?/The answer better be yeah...It pleases me...." As the guitarists slip and slide around her husky vocal, a harmonica wails in the space between, and Simone's piano is the authority, hard and purposely slow. The other tune in that vein, "In the Dark," is equally tense and unnerving; the band sounds as if it's literally sitting around as she plays and sings. There are a number of Simone signature tunes on this set, including "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl," "Backlash Blues," and her singular, hallmark, definitive reading of "My Man's Gone Now" from Porgy and Bess. Other notable tracks are the raucous, sexual roadhouse blues of "Buck," written by Simone's then husband Andy Stroud, and the woolly gospel blues of "Real Real," with the Hammond B-3 soaring around her vocal. The cover of Buddy Johnson's "Since I Fell for You" literally drips with ache and want. Simone also reprised her earlier performance of "House of the Rising Sun" (released on a 1962 Colpix live platter called At the Village Gate). It has more authority in this setting as a barrelhouse blues; it's fast, loud, proud, and wailing with harmonica and B-3 leading the charge. The original set closes with the slow yet sassy "Blues for Mama," ending with the same sexy strut the album began with, giving it the feel of a Möbius strip. Nina Simone Sings the Blues is a hallmark recording that endures; it deserves to be called a classic.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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Ray Hall, Engineer - Danny Davis, Producer - Nina Simone, Composer - Nina Simone, Lyricist - Nina Simone, Performer
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Rudy Stevenson, Composer - Rudy Stevenson, Lyricist - Ray Hall, Engineer - Danny Davis, Producer - Nina Simone, Performer
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Eric Gale, Guitar - Rudy Stevenson, Guitar - Ray Hall, Recording Engineer - Danny Davis, Producer - Lil Green, Composer - Lil Green, Lyricist - Buddy Lucas, Harmonica - Bernard Purdie, Drums - Nina Simone, Performer - Nina Simone, Vocal - Nina Simone, Piano
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Mickey Crofford, Engineer - Danny Davis, Producer - Nina Simone, Composer - Nina Simone, Lyricist - Nina Simone, Performer
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
George Gershwin, Composer - George Gershwin, Lyricist - Dubose Heyward, Composer - Dubose Heyward, Lyricist - Ray Hall, Recording Engineer - Danny Davis, Producer - Nina Simone, Performer
Originally recorded 1967. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Buddy Lucas, Harmonica - Buddy Lucas, Tenor Saxophone - Danny Davis, Producer - Rudy Stevenson, Guitar - Bob Bushnell, Acoustic Bass - Ray Hall, Recording Engineer - Mickey Crofford, Recording Engineer - Bernard Purdie, Drums - Bernard Purdie, Timpani - Langston Hughes, Composer - Langston Hughes, Lyricist - Nina Simone, Performer - Nina Simone, Composer - Nina Simone, Lyricist - Nina Simone, Vocal - Nina Simone, Piano - Ernie Hayes, Organ - Eric Gale, Guitar
Originally released 1971. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Ray Hall, Recording Engineer - Danny Davis, Producer - Nina Simone, Composer - Nina Simone, Lyricist - Nina Simone, Performer
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
David Bryan, Composer - David Bryan, Lyricist - Andy Stroud, Composer - Andy Stroud, Lyricist - Ray Hall, Engineer - Danny Davis, Producer - Nina Simone, Performer
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Buddy Lucas, Harmonica - Danny Davis, Producer - Rudy Stevenson, Guitar - Bob Bushnell, Acoustic Bass - Ray Hall, Engineer - Buddy Johnson, Composer - Buddy Johnson, Lyricist - Bernard Purdie, Drums - Nina Simone, Performer - Nina Simone, Vocal - Nina Simone, Piano - Ernie Hayes, Organ - Eric Gale, Guitar
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Alan Price, Composer - Alan Price, Lyricist - Ray Hall, Engineer - Danny Davis, Producer - Nina Simone, Performer
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Buddy Lucas, Harmonica - Buddy Lucas, Tenor Saxophone - Danny Davis, Producer - Rudy Stevenson, Guitar - Bob Bushnell, Acoustic Bass - Ray Hall, Recording Engineer - Mickey Crofford, Recording Engineer - Bernard Purdie, Drums - Bernard Purdie, Timpani - Nina Simone, Performer - Nina Simone, Composer - Nina Simone, Lyricist - Nina Simone, Vocal - Nina Simone, Piano - Ernie Hayes, Organ - Eric Gale, Guitar - Abbey Lincoln, Composer - Abbey Lincoln, Lyricist
Originally released 1967. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Buddy Lucas, Harmonica - Buddy Lucas, Tenor Saxophone - Danny Davis, Producer - Rudy Stevenson, Guitar - Bob Bushnell, Bass - Ray Hall, Recording Engineer - Ray Hall, Engineer - Mickey Crofford, Recording Engineer - Bernard Purdie, Drums - Bernard Purdie, Timpani - Nina Simone, Vocal - Nina Simone, Composer - Nina Simone, Lyricist - Nina Simone, Piano - Nina Simone, Performer - Ernie Hayes, Organ - Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Drums - Eric Gale, Guitar - Paul Williams, Producer
Originally Recorded 1967. All rights reserved by BMG Music
George Coleman, Saxophone - Noah Hopkins, Vocal - Everett Barksdale, Guitar - Jerry Jemmott, Acoustic Bass - Maeretha Stewart, Vocal - Montego Joe, Percussion - George Devens, Percussion - Jimmy Nottingham, Trumpet - Seldon Powell, Saxophone - Barbara Webb, Vocal - Haywood Henry, Saxophone - Jimmy Cleveland, Trombone - Weldon Irvine, Arranger - Weldon Irvine, Conductor - Weldon Irvine, Organ - Milt Grayson, Vocal - Jerome Graff, Vocal - Gordon Powell, Vibraphone - Gordon Powell, Percussion - Richard Tee, Organ - Joe Shepley, Trumpet - Eric Gale, Guitar - Stroud Productions, Inc., Producer - Richard Harris, Trombone - Wilbur Bascomb, Trumpet - Eileen Gilbert, Vocal - Hilda Harris, Vocal - Norris Turney, Saxophone - Nina Simone, Performer - Nina Simone, Vocal - Nina Simone, Piano - Willie Dixon, Composer - Willie Dixon, Lyricist - Bernard Purdie, Drums - Ralph Fields, Vocal - Harold Johnson, Trumpet
Originally released 1969. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Descripción del álbum
Nina Simone Sings the Blues, issued in 1967, was her RCA label debut, and was a brave departure from the material she had been recording for Phillips. Indeed, her final album for that label, High Priestess of Soul, featured the singer, pianist, and songwriter fronting a virtual orchestra. Here, Simone is backed by a pair of guitarists (Eric Gale and Rudy Stevenson), bassist (Bob Bushnell), drummer (Bernard "Pretty" Purdie), organist (Ernie Hayes), and harmonica player who doubled on saxophone (Buddy Lucas). Simone handled the piano chores. The song selection is key here. Because for all intents and purposes this is perhaps the rawest record Simone ever cut. It opens with the sultry, nocturnal, slow-burning original "Do I Move You," which doesn't beg the question but demands an answer: "Do I move you?/Are you willin'?/Do I groove you?/Is it thrillin'?/Do I soothe you?/Tell the truth now?/Do I move you?/Are you loose now?/The answer better be yeah...It pleases me...." As the guitarists slip and slide around her husky vocal, a harmonica wails in the space between, and Simone's piano is the authority, hard and purposely slow. The other tune in that vein, "In the Dark," is equally tense and unnerving; the band sounds as if it's literally sitting around as she plays and sings. There are a number of Simone signature tunes on this set, including "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl," "Backlash Blues," and her singular, hallmark, definitive reading of "My Man's Gone Now" from Porgy and Bess. Other notable tracks are the raucous, sexual roadhouse blues of "Buck," written by Simone's then husband Andy Stroud, and the woolly gospel blues of "Real Real," with the Hammond B-3 soaring around her vocal. The cover of Buddy Johnson's "Since I Fell for You" literally drips with ache and want. Simone also reprised her earlier performance of "House of the Rising Sun" (released on a 1962 Colpix live platter called At the Village Gate). It has more authority in this setting as a barrelhouse blues; it's fast, loud, proud, and wailing with harmonica and B-3 leading the charge. The original set closes with the slow yet sassy "Blues for Mama," ending with the same sexy strut the album began with, giving it the feel of a Möbius strip. Nina Simone Sings the Blues is a hallmark recording that endures; it deserves to be called a classic.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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- 1 disco(s) - 13 pista(s)
- Duración total: 00:37:33
- Artistas principales: Nina Simone
- Compositor: Various Composers
- Sello: RCA - Legacy
- Género Jazz Jazz vocal
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16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo
Originally Recorded 1966 & 1967. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment; Compilation (P) 2006 Sony Music Entertainment
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