Nina Simone's Finest Hour
by Nina Simone
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 13 June 2000
- Label: Verve
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:01:28
- Community rating: 3.91/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A fifteen-track Verve collection of Nina Simone's recordings for the label's Finest Hour series, drawn from her 1960s and early 1970s catalog. The program favors her jazz singing, ballads and standards arranged for small groups and orchestras, over the protest material.
Genres
Descriptors: female-vocals, melodic, ballad, orchestral, piano
Tracklist
- Love Me Or Leave Me (4:04)
- Wild Is The Wind (6:57)
- I Put A Spell On You (2:34)
- Work Song (3:06)
- Don't Explain (4:19)
- The Other Woman (Live In New York, 1964) (3:02)
- Mississippi Goddam (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York, 1964) (4:52)
- Four Women (4:24)
- Pirate Jenny (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York, 1964) (6:39)
- I Loves You Porgy (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York, 1964) (2:31)
- This Year's Kisses (2:58)
- Little Girl Blue (4:18)
- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (2:45)
- Ne Me Quitte Pas (3:35)
- Don't Smoke In Bed (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York, 1964) (5:24)
Credits
- Nina Simone - primary artist, piano, vocals, written-by
- Horace Ott - arranged by, conductor
- Hollis King - creative director [verve]
- Rudy Stevenson - flute, guitar
- Sherniece Smith - product manager [art production]
- Ben Young - research
- Cynthia Sesso - research [photograph]
- Robert Appleton - art direction [series], design [series], art direction, design
- Carlos Kase - coordinator [production and research]
- Tom Greenwood - coordinator [production and research]
- Peter Keepnews - liner notes [edited by]
- Ray Avery's Jazz Archives - photography by [back cover]
- Don Cropper - photography by [front cover]
- Bryan Koniarz - production manager
- Gus Kahn - written-by
- Walter Donaldson - written-by
- Dimitri Tiomkin - written-by
- Ned Washington - written-by
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins - written-by
- Nat Adderley - written-by
- Oscar Brown Jr. - written-by
- Jr. - written-by
- Billie Holiday - written-by
- Jessie Mae Robinson - written-by
- Bertolt Brecht - written-by
- Kurt Weill - written-by
- Marc Blitzstein - written-by
- George & Ira Gershwin - written-by
- Irving Berlin - written-by
- Lorenz Hart - written-by
- Richard Rodgers - written-by
- Bennie Benjamin - written-by
- Gloria Caldwell - written-by
- Sol Marcus - written-by
- Jacques Brel - written-by
- Willard Robison - written-by
- Jeff Willens - mastering