Format Details:
Release Date: 02 July 2021
Label: 20th Century Masterworks
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436563183423
Genres: Jazz Vocal Jazz
Description
'Nina Simone At The Village Gate' pressed on limited edition 180g blue virgin vinyl + 2 bonus tracks. Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide To Jazz writer Brian Morton, and by Paris' prestigious Jazz Magazine.
"The breath-taking originality of the second half of the show is what makes this album great. Opening with Oscar Brown, Jr.'s "Brown Baby" and then Michael Olatunji's "Zungo" and delivering a long version of another traditional song "Children, Go Where I Send You", Simone makes a profound stand on the black musical tradition, drawing on her deep reading in Frantz Fanon's auto-theory and Léopold Senghor's ideas on négritude to create a body of work that transcends jazz styles and critical pigeonholes. She was unique, but only because she drew on multitudes." Brian Morton
Tracklisting
Ella Fitzgerald
Nina Simone
Elvis Presley
Oscar Peterson
Michel Legrand & Miles Davis
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Sonny Rollins
Quincy Jones
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
