In Reply to: Nina Simone: what are her best discs? posted by dave c on August 16, 2007 at 20:20:16:
Unselfishly (uncharacteristically) I'll name just one: "Nina and Piano", said to be her personal favorite. It confounds me to this day that she is not given credit loudly enough for being the template which Cassandra Wilson et al have borrowed from, i.e. "jazz singing" broadly defined to include folk, the blues, rock, cabaret... Bob Dylan and Randy Newman songs alongside Irving Berlin, and she did catch heat for it in her day. Her payback being her artistic and financial success...
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- Love Nina to death- - newyorkp7 20:30:22 08/16/07 (0)