Nina Simone – Nina Simone (VG+/VG+) – LP, DE 1966

Nina Simone is an LP by Nina Simone from 1966 released on the International Polydor Production label.

About this album

Little Girl Blue is the album that introduced Nina Simone’s singular voice: poised, emotionally direct and impossible to categorise neatly as jazz alone. Recorded for Bethlehem in 1957 and released in 1959, it blends cool jazz, blues, standards and Simone’s own piano-led sense of drama, with performances such as My Baby Just Cares for Me, I Loves You Porgy and Little Girl Blue helping define her early reputation. The record showed how she could turn familiar material into something intimate and unmistakably personal, laying the foundation for a career that would cross jazz, pop and civil rights-era protest with equal authority.

Genre: Jazz

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