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Nina Simone

by Nina Simone

Simone's admirers have found their way to her from a range of places, and that diversity is reflected in her music. She plays blues, jazz, protest songs, gospel, pop, hymns and folk tunes. She covers the songs of the Beatles, Jacques Brel, Leonard Cohen, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Duke Ellington and the Bee Gees, and yet every song she sings is her own.She was trained as a classical pianist, and her playing is infused with the Bach of her childhood; her youth spent in church tinges her sound with traces of gospel. Though she didn't begin to sing until after she'd developed her skills as a pianist, her voice demonstrates these influences as well, mirroring her playing. When Simone sings the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun," its dreadful sadness and enormous ecstasy make it seem like it could never have been anyone else's song. Beneath the complex layers of her voice and her playing are longing, loss and happiness laid bare.Roger Caras writes, "No song that Nina sings has

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Episodes

  1. Feelings

    Nina Simone at Montreux Jazz Festival, 1976.

  2. Everyone's Gone To The Moon

    Everyone's Gone To The Moon; Nina Simone And Piano! (1969).

  3. Cotton-Eyed Joe

    Cotton-Eyed Joe; Nina's Choice, 1963.

  4. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

    Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out; Pastel Blues, 1965.

  5. Here Comes The Sun

    Here Comes The Sun, Sugar In My Bowl (1967-1972), CD 02.

  6. Mr. Bojangles

    Mr. Bojangles, Sugar In My Bowl (1967-1972), CD 02.

  7. I Shall Be Released

    I Shall Be Released, Sugar In My Bowl (1967-1972), CD 02.

  8. Theme From 'Samson And Delilah'

    Samson And Delilah from Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall, 1963.

  9. Balm In Gilead

    Balm In Gilead, Theatre Royal, London England, 12-04-1977

  10. Wild Is The Wind

    Wild is The Wind, from 'After Hours', 1995.

  11. I Think It's Going to Rain Today

    I Think It's Going to Rain Today, from 'A Very Rare Evening' album, 1969.

  12. Consummation

    Consummation, from 'Silk & Soul' album, 1967.

  13. Ne Me Quitte Pas

    Ne Me Quitte Pas, from 'The Best of Nina Simone' album, 1969.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Simone's admirers have found their way to her from a range of places, and that diversity is reflected in her music. She plays blues, jazz, protest songs, gospel, pop, hymns and folk tunes. She covers the songs of the Beatles, Jacques Brel, Leonard Cohen, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Duke Ellington and the Bee Gees, and yet every song she sings is her own.She was trained as a classical pianist, and her playing is infused with the Bach of her childhood; her youth spent in church tinges her sound with traces of gospel. Though she didn't begin to sing until after she'd developed her skills as a pianist, her voice demonstrates these influences as well, mirroring her playing. When Simone sings the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun," its dreadful sadness and enormous ecstasy make it seem like it could never have been anyone else's song. Beneath the complex layers of her voice and her playing are longing, loss and happiness laid bare.Roger Caras writes, "No song that Nina sings has

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Simone's admirers have found their way to her from a range of places, and that diversity is reflected in her music. She plays blues, jazz, protest songs, gospel, pop, hymns and folk tunes. She covers the songs of the Beatles, Jacques Brel, Leonard Cohen, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein,...

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