The Essential Nina Simone

by Nina Simone

Overview

Nina Simone could sing anything and make it work, and her unique mixture of passion, empowerment, liberation, and love continues to make her recorded work speak powerfully a decade or more into the 21st century. This two-disc, 29-track set collects essential sides from her entire career, including tracks done for the Colpix, Philips, RCA, CTI, and Elektra labels between 1959 and 1993. Simone was a master of nuance and phrasing, and songs collected here like 1959's "I Loves You, Porgy" and "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair," 1960's "Trouble in Mind," 1964's "See-Line Woman," her version of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" from 1965, 1967's saucy "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl," and the late-career "A Single Woman" from 1993 all give testament to this gifted and unique artist's vision, style, and elegance. It's a very impressive legacy. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	03/15/2011
Label:	Legacy / Rca
UPC:	0886977867026
Rank:	5589

Tracks

Disc 1

1. The Other Woman
2. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
3. Nobody Knows You When You're Done and Out
4. Trouble in Mind
5. Mississippi Goddam
6. See-Line Woman
7. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
8. I Put a Spell on You
9. Ne Me Quitte Pas
10. Strange Fruit
11. Four Women
12. Sinnerman
13. Do I Move You?

Disc 2

14. I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
15. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
16. The Glory of Love
17. To Love Somebody
18. Do What You Gotta Do
19. Ain't Got No -- I Got Life
20. Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)
21. Everyone's Gone to the Moon
22. Revolution
23. To Be Young, Gifted and Black
24. Who Knows Where the Time Goes
25. Here Comes the Sun
26. Just Like a Woman
27. Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
28. Rich Girl
29. A Single Woman

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Nina Simone   Primary Artist,Conductor
Jimmy Wisner   Conductor
Weldon Irvine   Conductor
Horace Ott   Conductor
Sammy Lowe   Conductor
Hal Mooney   Conductor
Harold Wheeler   Conductor

Technical Credits

Robin Gibb   Composer
Calvin Taylor   Composer
Gloria Caldwell   Composer
Daryl Hall   Composer
Bob Blake   Producer
Erwin Gorostiza   Art Direction
Tony Gale   Cover Photo
Mark Larson   Art Direction
Ron Jaramillo   Package Design
Richard James   Composer
Mike Cimicata   Project Director
Bruce Somerfeld   Executive Producer
Richard Lamb   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Andre Fischer   Producer
Sol Marcus   Composer
Bob Dylan   Composer
Jack Gold   Producer
Jacques Brel   Composer
Jimmy Webb   Composer
Jimmy Wisner   Arranger
Creed Taylor   Producer
Bennie Benjamin   Composer
Galt MacDermot   Composer
James Rado   Composer
David Nathan   Liner Notes
George Harrison   Composer
Rod McKuen   Composer
Weldon Irvine   Composer,Orchestration
Sandy Denny   Composer
Lewis Allan   Composer
Jonathan King   Composer
Horace Ott   Arranger
Joshua Sherman   Project Director
Rob Santos   Compilation Producer
Sammy Lowe   Arranger
William Taylor   Composer
Mark Wilder   Mastering
Jessie Mae Robinson   Composer
Jimmy Cox   Composer
Nina Simone   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Jalacy J. Hawkins   Composer
Hal Mooney   Arranger,Producer
Harold Wheeler   Arranger
Gerome Ragni   Composer
Aillene Bullock   Composer
Stu Phillips   Producer
Barry Gibb   Composer
Danny Davis   Producer
William Hill   Composer
Emile Latimer   Composer
Vic Anesini   Mixing
Joe Rene   Producer