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Product Summary
Format: CD
Buy.com Sku: 63726769
UPC: 803415121625
UPC 14: 00803415121625
Release Date: 4/19/2004
Buy.com Sales Rank: 8717
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
Sample
1. Mood Indigo ~ Nina Simone
2. Don't Smoke in Bed ~ Nina Simone
3. He Needs Me ~ Nina Simone
4. Little Girl Blue ~ Nina Simone
5. Love Me or Leave Me ~ Nina Simone
6. My Baby Just Cares for Me ~ Nina Simone
7. Good Bait ~ Nina Simone
8. Plain Gold Ring ~ Nina Simone
9. You'll Never Walk Alone ~ Nina Simone
10. I Loves You, Porgy ~ Nina Simone
11. Central Park Blues ~ Nina Simone
12. He's Got the Whole World in His Hands ~ Nina Simone
13. For All We Know ~ Nina Simone
14. African Mailman ~ Nina Simone
15. My Baby Just Cares for Me ~ Nina Simone
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info |
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This is the 1957 debut album by jazz singer and pianist Nina Simone, featuring "My Baby Just Cares For Me." |
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British remaster. |
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Nina Simone's first official album, 1958's Jazz as Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club, is pure perfection, an amazing accomplishment for a 24-year-old pianist arranging and singing studio renditions of songs from her live set. Captured here are moments of intrigue, as Simone magically takes the listener through musical caverns that want to be explored again with repeated spins. The rendition of "Plain Gold Ring" is exotic and draws the listener back, just as the Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart classic "Little Girl Blue" (the alternate title of the album stamped on the label of the vinyl as well as on the back cover) is a gorgeous work of art, Simone adding the melody from the traditional "Good King Wenceslas" to the standard Janis Joplin would bring to rock audiences a decade later. The cover photograph of the artist on a park bench in Central Park is a play on her only songwriting contribution, "Central Park Blues," which concludes the LP. In her autobiography, Simone gives insight into the recording of this masterpiece, an album that sets different tones with each melodic adventure. The uptempo blues of "Mood Indigo" drops quietly into "Don't Smoke in Bed" and the even deeper blues of "He Needs Me." One can hear Billie Holiday's influence pushing Simone on her own musical path. While Roger Williams was tearing up the popular charts with his middle-of-the-road magic, Simone elegantly plays her jazz with adult contemporary leanings, cracking the Top 20 herself with "I Loves You, Porgy" in 1959. Jazz as Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club (aka Little Girl Blue) is a superb fusion of jazz, blues, and pop that reveals something new each time it is played. ~ Joe Viglione |
Compilation Appearances
Associated Artists and Works
Technical Info
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Release Date : 04/19/2004 |
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Original Release Date : 1958 |
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Catalog ID : SNAP216CD |
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Label : Charly Records (UK) |
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Number of Discs : 1 |
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Studio/Live : Studio |
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SPAR Code : n/a |
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UPC : 00803415121625 |
Professional Reviews
Muzik (1/00, p.127)
- 5 stars out of 5 - "...Nina oozes black soulfulness and you can almost feel the pain in her perfect vocals. A true gem in the history of black music and one which should not be taken lightly."
- 5 stars out of 5 - "...Nina oozes black soulfulness and you can almost feel the pain in her perfect vocals. A true gem in the history of black music and one which should not be taken lightly."
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