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SPELLMAN: Nina Simone faced the 1960s head-on, and full of hope for a future without racism. As in the titled cut, "Sugar in My Bowl," she is capable of singing a very raunchy blues that resolves with a baroque flourish. A famously temperamental but inspired performer, Nina Simone - though dubbed the 'High Priestess of Soul' - also skipped effortlessly between (and combined) Jazz, Rock, Pop, Blues and Folk. You can say her style almost mirrored those times - joyously exuberant, passionately political, and stylistically diverse. SPELLMAN: She's among the greatest of American singers. This collection, Sugar in My Bowl: The Very Best of Nina Simone from 1967-1972 is a great snapshot of Nina and her times.
SPELLMAN, National Endowment for the Arts: Yes Murray. Spellman, is that why we include her in NPR's Basic Jazz Record Library?Ī.B. It's uniquely hers, but broad enough to allow for a full range of interpretations.
Nina Simone's voice is one of the most distinctive. Besides composing and writing hits, she covered a wide range of popular songs, interpreting it in an eclectic style and make those songs, her own. Originally a classical pianist, her style came to incorporate elements of Jazz, Blues, and Gospel. A class act.MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: Jazz loves the stand-alone voice, the stylist you can identify by the end of the very first phrase. Armed with a commanding voice and powerful songwriting, Nina Simone became one of the most important musicians of the last century. She managed to acquire education at one of the best music. Nina Simone Piano Songbook Volume 1 contains authentic piano and vocal transcriptions of 15 of her best-known songs, including Feeling Good, I Put a Spell On You, Sinnerman and My Baby Just Cares For Me, with guitar chord boxes. As a child, she desired to play piano and had no dream to become a singer. She was born in Tyron, North Carolina, 21 February, 1933.
It's as excellent and compelling as you would expect from this sublime mix series. Nina Simone (Eunice Waymon) is an outstanding American singer with a notoriously difficult nature, exemplary devotion to art, and many-faceted talent. Inside, you get shreds of house and techno from Four Tet and Nils Frahm himself, among others, but the mix explores much wider terrains Miles Davis makes an appearance with the masterful "Concerto De Aranjuez", electronic dub maestros Rhythm & Sound join the party the timeless "Mango Drive", and even Nina Simone's "Who Knows Where The Time Goes" gets selected. Her music flowed with irresistible jazziness and soul.
We know Nina Simone as an icon of 20th-century music: a genius performer and songwriter. She was a rich black bitch, a political agitator, a pianist in an. This September is Germany's Nils Frahm who takes care of the selection, and the DJ/producer serves up a gorgeously vast selection of sounds from around the globe and from all corners of time. Pure musical inspiration as a jazz song overflows with Baroque counterpoint, with the effortless cool that could only come from Nina Simone. Nina Simone would improvise and change keys in the middle of a song, weave together classical, jazz, gospel, soul, and folk. Moreover, these guys have invited some of the biggest names in the game over the last fifteen years, a highly impressive catalogue which includes the likes of Fatboy Slim, Jamiroquai, AIR, Arctic Monkeys, Sly & Robbie, and many more of the same calibre. since her performance songbook was enormous, and quite a few compositions in it gained great popularity with fans, there’s no ‘most successful’ song.
Review: Apart from Ministry Of Sound and Fabric, the Late Night Tales crew is perhaps the best and most respected compilation series these days. Answer (1 of 20): Your question isn’t clear whether you mean a song Simone performed, or composed as well as performed.