Nina Simone’s misplaced set on the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival launched as an album
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By Associated Press
NEW YORK: Nina Simone followers have a purpose for feeling good: A beforehand unreleased recording of the legendary artist’s set on the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1966 is being launched.
Verve Records and UMe on Friday are issuing “You’ve Got to Learn,” a six-song set that features a completely different tackle Simone’s celebrated protest tune “Mississippi Goddam.”
The songs additionally embody “You’ve Got to Learn, ”‘I Loves You, Porgy,” “Blues For Mama,” “Be My Husband” and ”Music for Lovers.” Simone, who additionally performs piano, is joined by guitar, bass and drums.
There are sound points all through — as they’re sorted out earlier than the ultimate tune, the encore “Music for Lovers,” she screams “Shut Up! “Shut Up!” to a heckler — however Simone’s energy and mastery are clearly potent.
“Her performance is not fiery so much as passionate, not critical so much as coaxing,” writes Simone scholar Shana L. Redmond within the liner notes. “These are love songs and each captured something of the careful combination of intimacy and immediacy on stage for which Simone was known.”
“Mississippi Goddam,” was written by Simone in response to the 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed 4 little ladies and the assassination of Medgar Evers in Mississippi that very same yr. The model Simone sung that day swings in another way than earlier variations, much less hectoring and consists of the road “Watts has made me lose my rest,” a reference to the riots in Los Angeles on Aug. 11, 1965.
This yr marks Simone’s ninetieth birthday. The so-called “High Priestess of Soul” and a civil rights icon recorded almost 40 albums between 1958 and 1973, with such cherished songs as “I Put a Spell on You,” “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” and “Feeling Good.” She died in 2003.
NEW YORK: Nina Simone followers have a purpose for feeling good: A beforehand unreleased recording of the legendary artist’s set on the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1966 is being launched.
Verve Records and UMe on Friday are issuing “You’ve Got to Learn,” a six-song set that features a completely different tackle Simone’s celebrated protest tune “Mississippi Goddam.”
The songs additionally embody “You’ve Got to Learn, ”‘I Loves You, Porgy,” “Blues For Mama,” “Be My Husband” and ”Music for Lovers.” Simone, who additionally performs piano, is joined by guitar, bass and drums.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
There are sound points all through — as they’re sorted out earlier than the ultimate tune, the encore “Music for Lovers,” she screams “Shut Up! “Shut Up!” to a heckler — however Simone’s energy and mastery are clearly potent.
“Her performance is not fiery so much as passionate, not critical so much as coaxing,” writes Simone scholar Shana L. Redmond within the liner notes. “These are love songs and each captured something of the careful combination of intimacy and immediacy on stage for which Simone was known.”
“Mississippi Goddam,” was written by Simone in response to the 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed 4 little ladies and the assassination of Medgar Evers in Mississippi that very same yr. The model Simone sung that day swings in another way than earlier variations, much less hectoring and consists of the road “Watts has made me lose my rest,” a reference to the riots in Los Angeles on Aug. 11, 1965.
This yr marks Simone’s ninetieth birthday. The so-called “High Priestess of Soul” and a civil rights icon recorded almost 40 albums between 1958 and 1973, with such cherished songs as “I Put a Spell on You,” “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” and “Feeling Good.” She died in 2003.
