Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall explained

Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall
Type:Live album
Artist:Nina Simone
Cover:Ninasimoneatcarnegiehall.jpg
Released:1963
Recorded:April 12, 1963
Venue:Carnegie Hall, New York City
Genre:Vocal, jazz, blues, folk
Length:35:43
Label:Colpix
Producer:Jack Lewis
Prev Title:Nina’s Choice
Prev Year:1963
Next Title:Folksy Nina
Next Year:1964

Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall is a 1963 album by jazz singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It is a live album recorded at Simone's first solo appearance at Carnegie Hall in New York City, on April 12, 1963,[1] and was released on Colpix Records.

Track listing

  1. "Black Swan" (Gian Carlo Menotti) 6:13
  2. "Theme from Samson and Delilah" (instrumental) (Camille Saint-Saëns) 5:50
  3. "If You Knew" (Nina Simone) 3:35
  4. "Theme from Sayonara" (instrumental) (Irving Berlin) 2:25
  5. "The Twelfth of Never" (Jerry Livingston (m), Paul Francis Webster (l)) 3:20
  6. "Will I Find My Love Today" (Alex Fogarty (m), Sidney Shaw (l)) 6:55
  7. "The Other Woman/Cotton-Eyed Joe" (Jessie Mae Robinson, Nina Simone/Traditional) 7:25

Complete 2-CD Set:

This edition combines the original Carnegie Hall album (disc 1) with another album recorded at the same concert, Folksy Nina, plus bonus tracks.

Disc One:

  1. "Black Swan" (Gian Carlo Menotti)
  2. "Theme from Samson and Delilah" (instrumental) (Camille Saint-Saëns)
  3. "If You Knew" (Nina Simone)
  4. "Theme from Sayonara" (instrumental) (Irving Berlin)
  5. "The Twelfth of Never" (Jerry Livingston (m), Paul Francis Webster (l))
  6. "Will I Find My Love Today" (Alex Fogarty (m), Sidney Shaw (l))
  7. "The Other Woman/Cotton-Eyed Joe" (Jessie Mae Robinson, Nina Simone/Traditional)
  8. "Work Song" (Nat Adderley) [Bonus Track]

Disc Two:

  1. "Silver City Bound" (Alan Lomax, Huddie Ledbetter, John A. Lomax)
  2. "When I Was a Young Girl" (Sebastian "Billy" Mure)
  3. "Eratz Zavat Chalav U'dvash" (Eliahu Gamliel)
  4. "Lass of the Low Country" (Traditional; arranged by Nina Simone)
  5. "The Young Knight" (Charles Kingsley, Joseph Hathaway)
  6. "Vaynikehu" (also known as "Israeli Song In 5/4 Time") (Gil Aldema)
  7. "Mighty Lak' a Rose" (Ethelbert Nevin, Frank Stanton)
  8. "Hush Little Baby" (Traditional)
  9. "Little Liza Jane" (Traditional) [Bonus Track]
  10. "Will I Find a Resting Place?" (Traditional) [Bonus Track]
  11. "Blackbird" (Herbert Sacker, Nina Simone) [Bonus Track]

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://boscarol.com/ninasimone/pages/php/show_session.php?id=carnegie63 "1963 April 12: New York Carnegie Hall", The Nina Simone Database.

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