Nina Simone and Piano! [Bonus Tracks]

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All Music Guide - John Bush
Her own best accompanist especially during the crossover-happy '60s, Nina Simone sings and plays on this 1970 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" ...
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All Music Guide - John Bush
Her own best accompanist especially during the crossover-happy '60s, Nina Simone sings and plays on this 1970 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.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 1/23/2002
  • Label: Tombstone Records
  • EAN: 4988017607138
  • Catalog Number: 31027

Album Credits

Performance Credits
Nina Simone Primary Artist, Piano
Technical Credits
Nina Simone Arranger, Composer
Mort Shuman Composer
Carolyn Franklin Composer
Jerome Kern Composer
Angelo Badalamenti Composer
Sly Dunbar Composer
Leo Robin Composer
David Nathan Liner Notes, Essay
Gérard Jouannest Composer
Eric Blau Composer
John Clifford Composer
George Cory Composer
Douglass Cross Composer
Bart Howard Composer
Howard Composer
Franklin Composer
Paul Williams Reissue Producer
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