At Town Hall/The Amazing Nina Simone

by Nina Simone

Overview

The two albums enclosed in At Town Hall/The Amazing Nina Simone bookend the remarkable summer of 1959 in the career of Nina Simone, when she recorded a studio session, The Amazing Nina Simone, in May, and in September appeared At Town Hall in a superlative performance that was recorded and soon issued. Just 26, Simone displayed great assurance, especially on the live date, casting off the cloak of the vocal jazz/standards singer and performing with her own trio featuring her lively piano. The studio date features an orchestra, but it too finds her early on in her recording career stamping her voice on standards "Willow Weep for Me" and "Blue Prelude."

Product Details

Release Date:	09/07/2010
Label:	Ais
UPC:	8436028691456
catalogNumber:	2869145
Rank:	50063

Tracks

1. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
2. Exactly Like You
3. The Other Woman
4. Under the Lowest
5. You Can Have Him
6. Summertime
7. Summertime
8. Cotton-Eyed Joe
9. Return Home
10. Wild Is the Wind
11. Fine and Mellow
12. Blue Prelude
13. Children Go Where I Send You
14. Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)
15. Stompin' at the Savoy
16. It Might as Well Be Spring
17. You've Been Gone Too Long
18. That's Him Over There
19. Chilly Winds Don't Blow
20. Theme from "The Middle of the Night"
21. Can't Get Out of This Mood
22. Willow Weep for Me
23. Solitaire
24. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Nina Simone   Primary Artist,Piano,Vocals
Albert "Tootie" Heath   Drums
Jimmy Bond   Bass

Technical Credits

George Gershwin   Composer
Dimitri Tiomkin   Composer
Irving Berlin   Composer
Nina Simone   Arranger,Composer
Benny Goodman   Composer
Gordon Jenkins   Composer
Edgar Sampson   Composer
Chick Webb   Composer
Jimmy McHugh   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Andy Razaf   Composer
Frank Loesser   Composer
Billie Holiday   Composer
Dorothy Fields   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein   Composer
Arthur Herzog   Composer
Hecky Krasnow   Composer
Ned Washington   Composer
George Bassman   Composer
Joe Bishop   Composer
Jimmy Cox   Composer
DuBose Heyward   Composer
Ann Ronell   Composer
Jessie Mae Robinson   Composer
Lew Spence   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Marilyn Keith   Composer
William Lovelock   Composer
John Sellers   Composer
Nutter   Composer
Don Ross   Liner Notes
Mike Ut   Liner Notes
Howard Berk   Liner Notes
Roger Caras   Original Liner Notes