SIMONE NINA The Complete RCA Albums Collection (Box-Set)

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Singer and songwriter Nina Simone (1933-2003) holds a special position of honor in the grand hierarchy of great African-American female vocalists of the 20th century - Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, and Aretha Franklin among them. Simone's music encompasses a broad palette, ranging from 1920s blues and the jazz of Duke Ellington and Miles Davis, to the standard songbook of Berlin and the Gershwins. There is traditional American balladry and the poetry of Langston Hughes, and the folk rock of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, Richie Havens, Sandy Denny, Jimmy Webb (and many others). Simone brought the Beatles, the Byrds, the Bee Gees, and Hair into her repertoire, as well as Olatunji and the exciting new strains of Afro-pop and World Music before the genre even had a name. It is all here, and much more on her nine RCA albums recorded between 1967 and 1974, considered the pinnacle of her recording career. All of the bonus tracks that have been added to expanded editions of the albums over the years around the world - a total of 35 - are included here. All of the albums have been re-mastered by Mark Wilder, seven of them for the first time ever in the U.S. As with Desmond (above), liner notes are written by producer Richard Seidel, who also produced the expanded versions of Silk & Soul and Nina Simone Sings The Blues in 2006, and compiled Legacy's three-disc, multi-label Grammy Award®- nominated anthology of 2008, To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story.

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Tracklist :

1. Nina Simone Sings The Blues (1967)
2. Silk & Soul (1967)
3. 'Nuff Said (1968)
4. Nina Simone And Piano! (1969)
5. To Love Somebody (1969)
6. Black Gold (1970)
7. Here Comes The Sun (1971)
8. Emergency Ward (1972)
9. It Is Finished (1974)