Jazz album: “Nina Simone Sings the Blues” by Nina Simone, released in 2006 on RCA Victor. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz. All About Jazz Essentials. Advertise Album ...

Nina Simone (born Eunice Waymon) was a classically-trained pianist; she didn’t set out to be a jazz singer. Born in Tryon, in 1933, she was a musical prodigy who attended Juilliard.

Capturing a Piece of the Transformative Nina Simone. A previously unreleased concert recording from the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966 is only ... “Blues For Mama,” which she famously recorded a few ...

A recently unearthed live version of “Blues for Mama,” written by Simone and Abbey Lincoln in the 1960s, took on domestic abuse in a momentous way. By Salamishah Tillet Nina Simone was always ...

As Ben Edmonds points out in the liner notes to this week's featured CD Just Like a Woman: Nina Simone Sings Songs of the 1960s, Simone could have easily been describing herself when she said of ...

The High Priestess Of Soul: Nina Simone In 5 Songs : A Blog Supreme There are certain figures in jazz history whose iconic status can be telegraphed by a single name. The pianist and singer Nina ...

On Friday, Ledisi will pay tribute to the woman who brought her back from despair with “Ledisi Sings Nina,” an album that features seven of Simone’s most popular songs redone in orchestral ...