Little Girl Blue: 2021 Remastered Edition

Release Date: 22nd Oct 2021
Catalogue No: 5053867147
Label: BMG
Length: 45 minutes

Albany Bigard, Duke Ellington: Mood Indigo (2021 - Stereo Remaster)

Work length4:06

Nina Simone

Willard Robison: Don't Smoke in Bed (2021 - Stereo Remaster)

Work length3:15

Nina Simone

Hamilton, Arthur: He Needs Me (2021 - Stereo Remaster)

Work length2:32

Nina Simone (vocals), Albert Heath (drums), Jimmy Bond (bass)

Rodgers, R: Little Girl Blue (2021 - Stereo Remaster)

Work length4:21

Nina Simone

Donaldson, Wa: Love Me or Leave Me (2021 - Stereo Remaster)

Work length3:26

Nina Simone, Albert Heath (drums), Jimmy Bond (bass)

Donaldson, Wa: My Baby Just Cares For Me (2021 - Stereo Remaster)

Work length3:41

Nina Simone

Count Basie, Tadd Dameron: Good Bait (2021 - Stereo Remaster)

Work length5:33

Nina Simone

George Stone: Plain Gold Ring (2021 - Stereo Remaster)

Work length3:58

Nina Simone

Oscar Hammerstein II, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers: You'll Never Walk Alone (2021 - Stereo Remaster)

Work length3:49

Nina Simone

Gershwin: I Loves You, Porgy (2021 - Stereo Remaster)

Work length4:13

Nina Simone

Simone, N: Central Park Blues (2021 - Stereo Remaster)

Work length6:54

Nina Simone

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Little Girl Blue, released in 1957, was Nina Simone's first recording, originally issued on the Bethlehem label. Backed by bassist Jimmy Bond and Albert "Tootie" Heath, it showcases her ballad voice as one of mystery and sensuality and showcases her up-tempo jazz style with authority and an enigmatic down-home feel that is nonetheless elegant. The album also introduced a fine jazz pianist. Simone was a solid improviser who never strayed far from the blues. Check the opener, her reading of Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo," which finger-pops and swings while keeping the phrasing deep-blue. It is contrasted immediately with one of the -- if not the -- definitive reads of Willard Robison's steamy leave-your-lover ballad "Don't Smoke in Bed." The title track, written by Rodgers & Hart, features "Good King Wenceslas" as a classical prelude to one of the most beautiful pop ballads ever written. It is followed immediately by the funky swing in "Love Me or Leave Me" with a smoking little piano solo in the bridge where Bachmeets Horace Silver and Bobby Timmons.

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