early recordingsUltimate
Quality compilations
Verve 314 539 050-2 (1997 US)
Album review by Michael Colby
4
[3:25]
Be My Husband
Andy Stroud
8
[3:17]
Blues on Purpose
Rudy Stevenson
5
[3:40]
Come Ye
Nina Simone
13
[4:21]
Don't Explain
Arthur Herzog jr, Billie Holiday
10
[5:26]
Don't Smoke in Bed
Willard Robison
2
[4:26]
Four Women
Nina Simone
12
[2:30]
I Loves You Porgy
George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward
7
[2:49]
I'm Going Back Home
Rudy Stevenson
15
[4:00]
If I Should Lose You
Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin
14
[4:17]
Lilac Wine
James Shelton
11
[3:05]
The Other Woman
Jessie Mae Robinson
3
[2:38]
See-Line Woman
George Bass
6
[2:52]
Take Me to the Water
Traditional
16
[3:10]
Tell Me More and More and Then Some
Billie Holiday
9
[7:00]
Wild Is the Wind
Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington
Liner Notes by Dianne Reeves
The most important thing about Nina Simone is the way she explores music. For her, here are no musical boundaries. That's also how I try to look at music. She sings everything: folk songs, French songs, Broadway songs, and blues, and she arranges them in a way that allows her to give them a unique interpretation. I just love the kind of music that she chooses to sing, especially the ballads she does with just piano, bass, and drums.
The most important thing about Nina Simone is the way she explores music. For her, here are no musical boundaries. That's also how I try to look at music. She sings everything: folk songs, French songs, Broadway songs, and blues, and she arranges them in a way that allows her to give them a unique interpretation. I just love the kind of music that she chooses to sing, especially the ballads she does with just piano, bass, and drums.
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