Nina Simone - At The Village Gate

Cat. no: 170041
Format: CD
Barcode: 8436563183959
Release Date: 08 Oct 2021
Genre: Jazz

Deluxe presentation with comprehensive 20-page booklet + 7 bonus tracks. Includes new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz writer Brian Morton and by Paris’ prestigious Jazz Magazine.

“The breath-taking originality of the second half of the show is what makes this album great. Opening with Oscar Brown, Jr.’s “Brown Baby” and then Michael Olatunji’s “Zungo” and delivering a long version of another traditional song “Children, Go Where I Send You”, Simone makes a profound stand on the black musical tradition, drawing on her deep reading in Frantz Fanon’s autotheory and Léopold Senghor’s ideas on négritude to create a body of work that transcends jazz styles and critical pigeonholes. She was unique, but only because she drew on multitudes.” - Penguin Guide To Jazz

Tracks: Just In Time / He Was Too Good To Me / House Of The Rising Sun / Bye Bye Blackbird / Brown Baby / Zungo / If He Changed My Name / Children Go Where I Send You / Summertime / Exactly Like You / The Other Woman* / Fine And Mellow* / Trouble In Mind* / You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To / My Baby Just Cares For Me *