Jazz & Blues > Jazz Vocal Jazz & Blues

I PUT A SPELL ON YOU

Advantages: GOOD ALBUM
Disadvantages: HARDLY ANY

This is a classical very very very old ‘cabaret’ type soul soothing album. Hope I described it well enough! I first heard her music on the movie ‘Assassin’, where the trainee demands to listen to it. There really is no other way to try and explain what she sounds like, you just have to listen to her. Songs like ‘Baby Cares’, and ‘Feeling Good’ are just songs that would make the hairs on the back of ...
...at the same time. Her music would suite any mood, any time of the day. I hunted around for ages trying to get a copy and eventually found it at the library! So – if you can’t find some music, don’t forget to go to the local library! This album is absolutely brilliant, now that you know where to get it… all you need to do now is …. Go out and get it! Tracks on the ‘Bittersweet: The Best of’ album include: ...

michellej 01.09.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Nina Simone - Nina Simone

A boxed set to rival all boxed sets, a genius at work.

Advantages: A whopping 75 tracks and a very high quality presentation box.
Disadvantages: "My Baby Just Cares For Me" & "Ain't Got No/I Got Life" not included in this set.

...Your Lovin' Ways 2:35 13. Four Women 4:24 14. What More Can I Say? 2:48 15. Lilac Wine 4:13 16. That's All I Ask 2:28 17. Break Down And Let It All Out 2:37 18. Why Keep On Breaking My Heart 2:34 19. Wild Is The Wind 6:56 20. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair 3:24 21. If I Should Lose You 3:55 22. Either Way I Lose 2:43 Disc 4 1. Don't You Pay Them No Mind 3:05 2. I'm Gonna Leave You 2:15 3. Brown Eyed Handsome Man 2:02 4. ...

bella6789 21.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Four Women (The Nina Simone Philips Recordings) - Nina Simone

Miss Nina at her best

Advantages: A great Selection of Miss Nina's songs
Disadvantages: Doesn't inclde the song "Mr Bojangles"

...Not only does Nina Simone Gold feature Miss Nina's songs as we are accustomed to them, it also provides some at first surprising but interesting remixes of Feeling Good and See Line Woman. In addition Nina Simone Gold feature some of the less common songs such as Tell Me More And More And Then Some, One September Day and I'm Going Back Home. Nina Simone Gold is not just for fans, it's for anyone that likes good music, particularly vocal jazz. This ...

shister_not 08.07.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Gold - Nina Simone

Finger clicking good

Advantages: Deep as the ocean blue
Disadvantages: Nil

Not usually one to buy 'greatest hits' or compilation albums I caved in an bought 'the great Nina Simone', showing a perfect skinned 60s girl on the front sleeve. With her dark, heavily made-up, fake-eyelashed eyes one might expect cover versions of 60's pop songs about broken hearts and popsicles. But anyone who knows anything about Nina Simone would know to expect great blues and a fantastic vocalist. Simones smokey, sensual voice accompanies her ...
...has been popular with lovers of jazz, soul, gospel, blues and pop. Yet she has stuck to her own thing throughout her career, avoiding pushes to perform for the more commercial side of the music industry. This compilation holds three of her most famous tracks, 'I Loves You Porgy', recorded by Bethlehem in 1957 and written by George Gershwin for a folk opera; 'Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood', later recorded by The Animals; 'My Baby Just Cares ...

hulahoop 05.04.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Greatest Hits - Nina Simone

A Great Archive Let Down By Sequencing

Advantages: Fidelity is great, songwriting, guitar playing and vocals superb, thorough research
Disadvantages: Sequencing - the track order is frustrating

...music fans a like. The Complete Robert Johnson comes across like a standards song book, the contents of which has given birth to numerous cover versions from acclaimed and esteemed bluesmen and rockers from across the globe spanning six decades. There is however, one glaring disappointment with this set and that is with the sequencing. This is the most comprehensive collection of Johnson's material and as such there are alternate takes included. ...
...by side with their original counterparts which makes the whole very hard to listen to as each track is repeated, albeit a variant of the original. It still baffles me as to why the alternates were not on a separate disc from the originals. Even for me, a hardened fan of the genre, it makes for difficult listening if you using an old fashioned CD player. This is a wonderful and comprehensive archive but unfortunately does not work as a listening experience ...

Nixu1980 03.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Complete Recordings, The (All 41 Recordings) - Robert Johnson