Nina Simone
Sings Ellington! (Mini-LP Papersleeve Replica) (81222)
Sings Ellington! (Mini-LP Papersleeve Replica)
Nina Simone
State of Art
8436569191705
SAR 151931
81222
JAZZ
1
NEW MINI-LP PAPERSLEEVE GATEFOLD REPLICAS WITH OBI
2 COMPLETE ALBUMS ON 1 CD
PLUS 1 BONUS TRACK
The repertoire played in Nina Simone Sings Ellington! is strange in and of itself. While some songs are among Ellington’s best-known standards, like “Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me”, “Solitude”, “Satin Doll”, “Something to Live For”, and “It Don’t Mean a Thing”, others are truly obscure. “Hey, Buddy Bolden” and “You Better Know It”, come from the 1956 play A Drum Is a Woman, while “I Like the Sunrise” originated as part of the 1947 Liberian Suite. “The Gal From Joe’s” (first recorded by Duke in 1938) was a tune which nearly disappeared from his repertoire after 1940. More intriguing is “Merry Mending”, a composition listed in Ellington’s autobiography Music Is My Mistress but which Duke (one of the most prolifically recorded jazz artists) apparently never recorded himself.
NINA SIMONE, vocals & piano
The Malcolm Dodds Singers (vocal choir).
Orchestra conducted & arranged by
RALPH BURNS. New York, June 1961.
(*) BONUS TRACK (12):
Nina Simone (vcl, p),Jimmy Bond (b), Albert “Tootie” Heath (d).
New York, 1957.
(**) BONUS ALBUM (13-19): NINA SIMONE AT NEWPORT
Nina Simone (vcl, p), Al Shackman (g),
Chris White (b), Rob Hamilton (d).
Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, June 30, 1960.
TRACKS:
01 DO NOTHIN’ TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME
02 I GOT IT BAD (AND THAT AIN’T GOOD)
03 HEY, BUDDY BOLDEN
04 MERRY MENDING
05 SOMETHING TO LIVE
06 YOU BETTER KNOW IT
07 I LIKE THE SUNRISE (from THE LIBERIAN SUITE)
08 SOLITUDE
09 THE GAL FROM JOE’S
10 SATIN DOLL
11 IT DON’T MEAN A THING (IF IT AIN’T GOTTHAT SWING)
12 MOOD INDIGO (*)
13 TROUBLE IN MIND (**)
14 PORGY (**)
15 LITTLE LIZA JANE (**)
16 YOU’D BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO (**)
17 FLO ME LA (**)
18 NINA’S BLUES (**)
19 IN THE EVENING BY THE MOONLIGHT (**)
TOTAL TIME: 77:11 Min.
