Catalogue Number:
 988 8695
Barcode:
 0602498886953
Label:
 Verve CD
Release date:
11 March

TRACKLISTING
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Night Song
The Laziest Gal in Town
Something Wonderful
Don't Take All Night
Nobody
I Am Blessed Of This I'm Sure
See-Line Woman
Our Love (Will See Us Through)
How Can I?
The Last Rose of Summer
A Monster

For her second Philips LP, Nina Simone entered the studio with an orchestra and an off-the-beaten-track repertoire that illuminated her pristine musicianship and emotional depth. On the full-of-highlights program Simone covers some lesser-known standards by Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and slow-drags "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," which later was a hit for the Animals.
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Catalogue Number:
 988 4045
Barcode:
 0602498840450
Label:
 Verve CD
Release date:
11 March

TRACKLISTING
Don't You Pay Them No Mind
I'm Gonna Leave You
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Keeper of the Flame
The Gal From Joe's
Take Me to the Water
I'm Going Back Home
I Hold No Grudge
Come Ye
He Ain't Comin' Home No More
Work Song

"As an artist, I must give myself wholly and completely to the expression of that which is within," said Nina Simone, who never sought the easy path. On her final recording for Philips, Simone selects diverse repertoire including songs by Chuck Berry ("Brown Eyed Handsome Man") and Duke Ellington ("The Gal from Joe's"), frames her soulful voice with lush orchestrations, and relates a string of personal and magnetic stories in song.
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Catalogue Number:
 988 8692
Barcode:
 0602498886922
Label:
 Verve CD
Release date:
11 March

TRACKLISTING
I Put a Spell on You
Tomorrow Is My Turn
Ne Me Quitte Pas
Marriage Is for Old Folks
July Tree
Gimme Some
Feeling Good
One September Day
Blues on Purpose
Beautiful Land
You've Got to Learn
Take Care of Business

Nina Simone's third Philips release, I Put a Spell on You, explores the permutations of love, lust, and obsession. Propelled by a smoldering version of the Screamin' Jay Hawkins title track, a pair of bawdy blues ("Gimme Some," "Take Care of Business"), and sophisticated songs by French songwriters Charles Aznavour and Jacques Brel, this is one of Simone's best.

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Catalogue Number:
 988 8697
Barcode:
 0602498886977
Label:
 Verve CD
Release date:
11 March

TRACKLISTING
I Loves You, Porgy
Plain Gold Ring
Pirate Jenny
Old Jim Crow
Don't Smoke in Bed
Go Limp
Mississippi Goddam

To really understand the 1960s, you had to hear Nina Simone. There's no better place to begin than with her first LP for Philips, Nina Simone in Concert, a 1964 recording on which the diva -- her moods dark and raw one moment, humorous the next -- channels the turbulent zeitgeist. The beyond-category program embraces jazz, folk, and pop and includes live renditions of her well-known hit "I Loves You, Porgy" and the stirring Civil Rights anthem "Mississippi Goddam."
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Catalogue Number:
 988 8698
Barcode:
 0602498886984
Label:
 Verve CD
Release date:
11 March

TRACKLISTING
Mood Indigo
The Other Woman
Love Me or Leave Me
Don't Explain
Little Girl Blue
Chauffeur
For Myself
The Ballad of Hollis Brown
This Year's Kisses
Images
Nearer Blessed Lord

Let It All Out, Nina Simone's fifth release for Philips is, among other things, a personal homage to immortal jazz singer Billie Holiday. Interpreting the lyrics with her usual individuality and passion, Simone reinvents such Holiday classics as "This Year's Kisses" and "Don't Explain." Simone also performs traditional blues, show tunes, and socially conscious folk numbers (Bob Dylan's "Ballad of Hollis Brown.")

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Catalogue Number:
 988 8700
Barcode:
 0602498887004
Label:
 Verve CD
Release date:
11 March

TRACKLISTING
Be My Husband
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
End of the Line
Trouble in Mind
Tell Me More and More and Then Some
Chilly Winds Don't Blow
Ain't No Use
Strange Fruit
Sinnerman

Focusing on the blues more as a feeling than a form, Nina Simone finds points of intersection between the sacred and the secular on Pastel Blues , her fourth Philips LP. Utilizing a rich palette of moods and emotions Simone covers a broad range of songs: classics such as "Trouble in Mind" and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," a piano-and-vocal version of "Strange Fruit," and the redemptive "Sinnerman" presented as an ascendant, gospelized chant.
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Catalogue Number:
 988 8701
Barcode:
 0602498887011
Label:
 Verve CD
Release date:
11 March

TRACKLISTING
I Love Your Lovin' Ways
Four Women
What More Can I Say
Lilac Wine
That's All I Ask
Break Down and Let It All Out
Why Keep On Breaking My Heart
Wild Is the Wind
Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
If I Should Lose You
Either Way I Lose

Disarmingly and relentlessly intimate, Wild Is the Wind, Nina Simone's sixth Philips recording, comprises eleven tracks that together achieve a compelling consistency in mood, performance, and production. Sympathetic arrangements, restrained piano playing, and rich, closely miked vocals mark this stellar album, which includes Simone's searing original "Four Women."
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