Nina: The Essential Nina Simone
by Nina Simone
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 12 May 2000
- Label: Metro
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:13:02
- Community rating: 3.85/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A single-disc introduction to Nina Simone's catalogue, centred on her interpretations of standards, blues and protest material. Simone's classical piano training and contralto voice give even the familiar songs an intensity few singers have matched.
Genres
Descriptors: soulful, piano, female-vocals, melodic, storytelling
Tracklist
- My Baby Just Cares For Me (3:37)
- Mood Indigo (4:01)
- He's Got The Whole World In His Hands (3:08)
- Don't Smoke In Bed (3:10)
- Love Me Or Leave Me (3:21)
- He Needs Me (2:28)
- Little Girl Blue (4:17)
- Plain Gold Ring (3:49)
- House Of The Rising Sun (6:55)
- Ain't Got No / I Got Life (4:39)
- Gin House Blues (4:54)
- Ain't No Use (2:44)
- Mississippi Goddam (4:41)
- See Line Woman (3:46)
- Four Women (4:52)
- I Sing Just To Know That I'm Alive (3:24)
- Fodder On Her Wings (5:07)
- I Loves You Porgy (4:09)
Credits
- Nina Simone - primary artist, arranged by, written-by
- Gus Kahn - written-by
- Walter Donaldson - written-by
- Barney Bigard - written-by
- Duke Ellington - written-by
- Irving Mills - written-by
- Willard Robison - written-by
- Arthur Hamilton - written-by
- Lorenz Hart - written-by
- Richard Rodgers - written-by
- George Stone - written-by
- Galt MacDermot - written-by
- Gerome Ragni - written-by
- James Rado - written-by
- Fletcher Henderson - written-by
- Henry Troy - written-by
- Rudy Stevenson - written-by
- George Houston Bass - written-by
- DuBose Heyward - written-by
- George Gershwin - written-by