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Four Women: The Nina Simone Phillips Recordings (Box Set) (CD)

By: Nina Simone (Artist)

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Nina Simone Artist Snapshot:

Nina Simone was a great pianist, a riveting vocalist, and an uncompromising personality. Her sociopolitical consciousness and eclecticism set her apart from the pack. Her interpretations of soul, jazz, blues, and standards are both striking and unique; not for nothing do her fans refer to her as "the Goddess." She established her jazz credentials with an emotive interpretation of George Gershwin 's 'I Loves You Porgy' in 1959. Her influential '60s work included "Forbidden Fruit" and "I Put A Spell On You." One of her singles, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," later became a worldwide hit for the Animals. In later years, she recorded less frequently, but in 1987, while in self-imposed exile in France, she had a fluke hit after her '50s version of "My Baby Just Cares For Me," was resurrected in a TV commercial. Simone died in 2003 at her home in France at age 70.

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DISC 1 for Four Women: The Nina Simone Phillips Recordings (Box Set) (CD) Album By Nina Simone (Artist)
1   I Loves You Porgy
2   Plain Gold Ring
3   Pirate Jenny
4   Old Jim Crow
5   Don't Smoke In Bed
6   Go Limp
7   Mississippi Goddam
8   Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
9   Night Song
10   Laziest Gal In Town
11   Something Wonderful
12   Don't Take All Night
13   Nobody
14   I Am Blessed
15   Of This I'm Sure
16   See-Line Woman
17   Our Love (Will See Us Through)
18   How Can I?
19   Last Rose Of Summer, The
 
DISC 2 for Four Women: The Nina Simone Phillips Recordings (Box Set) (CD) Album By Nina Simone (Artist)
1   I Put A Spell On You
2   Tomorrow Is My Turn
3   Ne Me Quitte Pas
4   Marriage Is For Old Folks
5   July Tree
6   Gimme Some
7   Feeling Good
8   One September Day
9   Blues On Purpose
10   Beautiful Land
11   You've Got To Learn
12   Take Care Of Business
13   Be My Husband
14   Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out
15   End Of The Line
16   Trouble In Mind
17   Tell Me More And More And Then Some
18   Chilly Winds Don't Blow
19   Ain't No Use
20   Strange Fruit
21   Sinnerman
 
DISC 3 for Four Women: The Nina Simone Phillips Recordings (Box Set) (CD) Album By Nina Simone (Artist)
1   Mood Indigo
2   Other Woman, The
3   Love Me Or Leave Me
4   Don't Explain
5   Little Girl Blue
6   Chauffeur
7   For Myself
8   Ballad Of Hollis Brown
9   This Years Kisses
10   Images
11   Nearer Blessed Lord
12   I Love Your Lovin' Ways
13   Four Women
14   What More Can I Say
15   Lilac Wine
16   That's All I Ask
17   Break Down And Let It All Out
18   Why Keep On Breaking My Heart
19   Wild Is The Wind
20   Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
21   If I Should Lose You
22   Either Way I Lose
 
DISC 4 for Four Women: The Nina Simone Phillips Recordings (Box Set) (CD) Album By Nina Simone (Artist)
1   Don't You Pay Them No Mind
2   I'm Gonna Leave You
3   Brown Eyed Handsome Man
4   Keeper Of The Flame
5   Gal From Joe's, The
6   Take Me To The Water
7   I'm Going Back Home
8   I Hold No Grudge
9   Come Ye
10   He Ain't Comin' Home No More
11   Work Song
12   I Love My Baby
13   Monster, A
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (6/26/03, p.82) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Complex music in the key of bittersweet..."
JazzTimes (8/03, p.131) - "...She recorded what she wanted, how she wanted, when she wanted....She was simultaneously jazz, folk, blues and gospel. The lines crossed and blurred....As a storyteller, she rivaled Carmen McRae and Sarah Vaughan..."

Title Note

FOUR WOMEN: THE NINA SIMONE PHILLIPS RECORDINGS contains 7 LPs on 4 CDs: NINA SIMONE IN CONCERT (1964)/BROADWAY-BLUES-BALLADS (1964)/I PUT A SPELL ON YOU (1965)/PASTEL BLUES (1965)/LET IT ALL OUT (1965)/WILD IS THE WIND (1965)/HIGH PRIESTESS OF SOUL (1966).

Personnel includes: Nina Simone (vocals, piano); Rudy Stevenson (guitar); Lisle Atkinson (bass, percussion); Bobby Hamilton (drums).

Producer: Hal Mooney.

Compilation producer: Bryan Koniarz.

Recorded between 1964 & 1966. Includes liner notes by Ashley Kahn.

FOUR WOMEN was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes.

Although Nina Simone's years at RCA have their passionate devotees, most fans believe her mid-'60s tenure at Philips was the pinnacle of her career. Indeed, her first album for the label, 1964's still-startling NINA SIMONE IN CONCERT, is probably Simone's single finest album of all time, introducing such masterpieces as her chilling reinterpretation of Kurt Weill's "Pirate Jenny" and the anti-segregation broadside "Mississippi Goddam," which she delivers with absolutely brutal humor. The six studio albums that followed are all included in full, and each of them continues Simone's no-boundaries musical worldview (one album was called BROADWAY-BLUES-BALLADS, and she cut the occasional pop song, like her dramatic remake of the Animals' "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"), her increasingly socio-political choices of material, and above all, her absolute mastery of the jazz vocal form. Beautifully packaged and extensively annotated, this four-disc set is a perfect overview of some of the '60s' finest and most uncompromising vocal jazz.

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