Nina Simone and Piano!

by Nina Simone

Overview

Her own best accompanist (especially during the crossover-happy '60s), Nina Simone sings and plays on this 1969 LP. With strident vocals and a thoughtful piano backing, Simone makes her own a pair of radically different (though similarly fatalistic) compositions, Blind Willie Johnson's "Nobody's Fault But Mine" and Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today." Her version of "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" leans dangerously close to avant-garde overkill, but she returns with good performances on "Compensation" and "Who Am I?" A great moment comes when a tambourine finally joins her midway through "Another Spring," and the lone jazz standard ("I Get Along Without You Very Well") is given a touching performance. In an era when Simone often veered from crossover to experimental, Nina Simone and Piano! is undeniably difficult, but frequently rewarding. ~ John Bush

Product Details

Release Date:	12/01/2009
Label:	Bmg / Sony Music / Sony Music Entertainment
UPC:	0886975008728
Rank:	260190

Tracks

1. Seems I'm Never Tired Lovin' You
2. Nobody's Fault But Mine
3. I Think It's Going to Rain Today
4. Everyone's Gone to the Moon
5. Compassion (A/K/A Compensation)
6. Who Am I?
7. Another Spring
8. The Human Touch
9. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
10. The Desperate Ones
11. Music for Lovers
12. In Love in Vain
13. I'll Look Around
14. The Man With the Horn

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Nina Simone   Primary Artist,Piano

Technical Credits

Paul Williams   Reissue Producer,Compilation Producer
Angelo Badalamenti   Composer
Bonnie Lake   Composer
Eddie DeLange   Composer
Jack Jenney   Composer
David Nathan   Essay,Liner Notes
Eric Blau   Composer
Leonard Bernstein   Composer
Jonathan King   Composer
Randy Newman   Composer
Nina Simone   Arranger,Composer
George Cory   Composer
Mort Shuman   Composer
Bill Lacey   Audio Restoration
Gerard Jouannest   Composer
Hoagy Carmichael   Composer
Carolyn Franklin   Composer
Douglass Cross   Composer
Leo Robin   Composer
Bart Howard   Composer
Jennifer Liebeskind   Research
Victoria Sarro   Project Director
John Clifford   Composer
Mike Hartry   Mixing,Digital Transfers
Jerome Kern   Composer
Sly Dunbar   Composer