At Newport (Live)
Nina Simone
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Trouble In Mind (Live At the Newport Jazz Festival, June 30, 1960) | Nina Simone | 5:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Porgy (Live At the Newport Jazz Festival, June 30, 1960) | Nina Simone | 5:06 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Li'l Liza Jane (Live At the Newport Jazz Festival, June 30, 1960) | Nina Simone | 4:33 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (Live At the Newport Jazz Festival, June 30, 1960) | Nina Simone | 5:24 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Flo Me La (Live At the Newport Jazz Festival, June 30, 1960) | Nina Simone | 7:12 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Nina's Blues (Live At the Newport Jazz Festival, June 30, 1960) | Nina Simone | 6:10 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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In the Evening By the Moonlight (Live At the Newport Jazz Festival, June 30, 1960) | Nina Simone | 6:08 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 7 Songs |
Biography
Born: February 21, 1933 in Tryon, NC
Genre: Jazz
Years Active: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s
Of all the major singers of the late 20th century, Nina Simone was one of the hardest to classify. She recorded extensively in the soul, jazz, and pop idioms, often over the course of the same album; she was also comfortable with blues, gospel, and Broadway. It's perhaps most accurate to label her as a "soul" singer in terms of emotion, rather than form. Like, say, Aretha Franklin, or Dusty Springfield, Simone was an eclectic who brought soulful qualities to whatever material she interpreted. These...
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