Nina Simone at Town Hall

by Nina Simone

Nina Simone at Town Hall cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: December 1959
  • Label: Colpix
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:28
  • Community rating: 4.07/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Her first live album captures Simone brilliantly fusing classical piano technique, deep blues, and cabaret jazz before a captivated New York audience. The concert highlighted her stunning compositional agility and established her fierce, uncompromising stage presence that would define her career.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair (3:32)
  2. Exactly Like You (3:16)
  3. The Other Woman (2:59)
  4. Under the Lowest (5:33)
  5. You Can Have Him (5:54)
  6. Summertime (2:56)
  7. Summertime (2:45)
  8. Cotton Eyed Joe (2:56)
  9. Return Home (5:27)
  10. Wild Is the Wind (3:38)
  11. Fine and Mellow (3:26)

Credits

  • Nina Simone - primary artist, arranged by, written-by
  • Traditional - written-by
  • Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields - written-by
  • Jessie Mae Robinson - written-by
  • Irving Berlin - written-by
  • George Gershwin - written-by
  • DuBose Heyward - written-by
  • Dimitri Tiomkin - written-by

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