Name: Blackbird – The Colpix Recordings (1959-1963)
Brand: Nina Simone

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QSM8CR5218BX

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-03-29

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Cherry Red (ADA)

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5013929091832

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CDx8

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Nina Simone

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Jazz

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Soul Music

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Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Born on February 21, 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina, she began giving piano recitals at a young age after playing at her local church. Her talent impressed her mother's employer and a local fund set up by her music teacher, who funded her childhood piano lessons.

At the age of 17, Nina moved to Philadelphia where she taught piano and played to raise money for her studies at New York's renowned Juilliard School Of Music. To support her family financially, she worked in a bar in Atlantic City where she gained a devoted following through singing.

Nina's career took off when she recorded Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy," which became a US Top 40 hit. This success led to performances at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival. Throughout her career, Nina embraced numerous Civil Rights anthems and was a passionate supporter of the movement.

In the 1970s, Nina left the US and lived in various places including Barbados, Africa, the Netherlands before settling in France where she passed away from cancer in 2003. Known for drawing heavily on gospel blues soul jazz R&B folk music forms within her voice; it found wider popularity late in life when "My Baby Just Cares For Me" became an unlikely UK chart hit featured in a TV ad campaign.

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&nbsp;First-ever luxury 8CD box set of expanded editions of the critically-acclaimed and treasured albums that the iconic Nina Simone recorded for Colpix Records from 1959 to 1963 which formed the very foundation for the global reach she achieved as peerless and influential artist over the decades that followed.

With an astounding 107 tracks covering over seven hours of music, the original albums The Amazing Nina Simone (1959), Nina Simone At Town Hall (1959), Nina Atnewport (1960), Forbidden Fruit (1961), Nina At The Village Gate (1962), Nina Simone Sings Ellington (1962), Nina Simone At Carnegie Hall (1963) and Folksy Nina (recorded in 1963, released in 1964), augmented by 29 bonus tracks consisting of single edits, non-LP sides and a wealth of other material found in the Colpix tape vaults in the early 2000’s.

Including the legendary performer’s first readings of classics such as ‘Wild Is The Wind’, ‘I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl’, ‘Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out’ and ‘Sinner Man’ (key cuts that Nina would revisit over later albums after her Colpix tenure ended)

Plus an astonishing array of diverse material from torch songs ‘You Can Have Him’ and ‘The Other Woman’ to the gospel-flavoured ‘Children Go Where I Send You’, and a later version of Nina’s first US breakthrough 1958 hit ‘I Loves You Porgy’ along with her indelibly distinctive take on folk songs ‘Cotton Eyed Joe’, ‘Little Liza Jane’ and ‘Black Is The Colour Of My True Love’s Hair’.

With stellar remastering from Nick Robbins and exemplary artwork design by Tony Hodsoll, this essential reissue of Nina Simone’s eclectic early recordings features a personal essay from Aaron Overfield (her official archivist), commentary by renowned film producer/ storyteller Nia Hill (librettist of the opera ‘Nina Simone’s Absurde) and extensive notes from historian and SoulMusic Records’ reissue producer David Nathan, who founded the first UK Appreciation Society for Nina Simone in 1965.

Blackbird – The Colpix Recordings (1959-1963)

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Discover Blackbird – The Colpix Recordings (1959-1963) by Nina Simone. Luxury 8CD box set of her iconic albums, remastered and expanded. Soul Music label.