Artist: Nina Simone
Album: The Essential of Nina Simone (The jazz Diva best tracks)
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Release Date: 2014
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:14:56
Total Tracks: 19
Total Size: 671 MB

Tracklist:

1. Nina Simone – Blue Prelude (03:20)
2. Nina Simone – Children Go Where I Send You (02:50)
3. Nina Simone – Tomorrow (02:59)
4. Nina Simone – Stompin’at the Savoy (02:08)
5. Nina Simone – It Might as Well Be Spring (03:53)
6. Nina Simone – You’ve Been Gone Too Long (02:10)
7. Nina Simone – That’s Him over There (02:30)
8. Nina Simone – Chilly Winds Don’t Blow (02:42)
9. Nina Simone – Theme From (02:28)
10. Nina Simone – Can’t Get out of This Mood (02:33)
11. Nina Simone – Willow Weep for Me (03:15)
12. Nina Simone – Solitaire (03:35)
13. Nina Simone – Trouble in Mind (05:41)
14. Nina Simone – Porgy (05:10)
15. Nina Simone – Little Liza Jane (04:34)
16. Nina Simone – You’d Be so Nice to Come Home To (05:25)
17. Nina Simone – Flo Me La (07:10)
18. Nina Simone – Nina’s Blues (06:10)
19. Nina Simone – In the Evening by the Moonlight (06:13)

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Nina Simone has penned unforgettable protest material, covered jazz, folk, rock, and pop with equal flair, and created a body of work that’s kept her popularity high. While this title is hardly accurate, since it only covers RCA material from 1967-1972, there’s plenty of anthemic fare among The Essential Nina Simone’s 16 selections. These include “Mr. Bojangles,” “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black,” “Seems I’m Never Tired Lovin’ You,” and “Since I Fell for You.” While the absence of “Baltimore,” “I Wish I Knew How It Feels to Be Free,” and “Here Comes the Sun” (to name only three) is sizable, and the weighting of this compilation toward well-known rock types (Bob Dylan, Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb, George Harrison, two Bee Gees cuts) debatable, there’s still no way it can be dismissed. ~ Ron Wynn