199.00 PLN

SACD Hybr:

Nr kat.: CAPJ083SA
Label  : Acoustic Sounds

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LP HQ-200g:

Nr kat.: APJ083
Label  : Acoustic Sounds

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2 LP HQ-200G 45rpm:

Nr kat.: APJ083-45
Label  : Acoustic Sounds

This is the 1957 debut album by jazz singer and pianist Nina Simone, featuring "My Baby Just Cares For Me." Nina Simone's first official album, 1958's Jazz as Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club, is pure perfection, an amazing accomplishment ... Full Descriptionfor a 24-year-old pianist arranging and singing studio renditions of songs from her live set. Captured here are moments of intrigue, as Simone magically takes the listener through musical caverns that want to be explored again with repeated spins. The rendition of "Plain Gold Ring" is exotic and draws the listener back, just as the Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart classic "Little Girl Blue" (the alternate title of the album stamped on the label of the vinyl as well as on the back cover) is a gorgeous work of art, Simone adding the melody from the traditional "Good King Wenceslas" to the standard Janis Joplin would bring to rock audiences a decade later. The cover photograph of the artist on a park bench in Central Park is a play on her only songwriting contribution, "Central Park Blues," which concludes the LP. In her autobiography, Simone gives insight into the recording of this masterpiece, an album that sets different tones with each melodic adventure. The uptempo blues of "Mood Indigo" drops quietly into "Don't Smoke in Bed" and the even deeper blues of "He Needs Me." One can hear Billie Holiday's influence pushing Simone on her own musical path. While Roger Williams was tearing up the popular charts with his middle-of-the-road magic, Simone elegantly plays her jazz with adult contemporary leanings, cracking the Top 20 herself with "I Loves You, Porgy" in 1959. Jazz as Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club (aka Little Girl Blue) is a superb fusion of jazz, blues, and pop that reveals something new each time it is played. ~ Joe Viglione British remaster.Muzik (1/00, p.127) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...Nina oozes black soulfulness and you can almost feel the pain in her perfect vocals. A true gem in the history of black music and one which should not be taken lightly."