Nina Simone - At Village Gate (Blue Coloured Vinyl)

20TH CENTURY MASTERWORKS

£16.51

Cat. no: 350222
Format: LP (Blue Vinyl)
Barcode: 8436563183423
Release Date: 18th June 2021
Genre: Jazz

Nina Simone At The Village Gate’ pressed on limited edition 180g blue virgin vinyl + 2 bonus tracks.

Contains 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 auto-theory and Leopold Senghor’s ideas on n gritude to create a body of work that transcends jazz styles and critical pigeonholes. She was unique, but only because she drew on multitudes.” Brian Morton

Tracks: Just In Time / He Was Too Good To Me / House Of The Rising Sun / Bye Bye Blackbird / Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair / Brown Baby / Zungo / If He Changed My Name / Children Go Where I Send You / Summertime [parts 1 & 2]