Nina Simone - Four Women: Nina Simone Philips Recordings
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Artist: Nina SimoneEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Music Label: Verve
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- I Loves You, Porgy
- Plain Gold Ring
- Pirate Jenny
- Old Jim Crow
- Don't Smoke In Bed
- Go Limp
- Mississippi Goddam
- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
- Night Song
- The Laziest Gal In Town
- Something Wonderful
- Don't Take All Night
- Nobody
- I Am Blessed
- Of This I'm Sure
- See-Line Woman
- Our Love (Will See Us Through)
- How Can I?
- The Last Rose Of Summer
- I Put A Spell On You
- Tomorrow Is My Turn
- Ne Me Quitte Pas
- Marriage Is For Old Folks
- July Tree
- Gimme Some
- Feeling Good
- One September Day
- Blues On Purpose
- Beautiful Land
- You've Got To Learn
- Take Care Of Business
- Be My Husband
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
- End Of The Line
- Trouble In Mind
- Tell Me More And More And Then Some
- Chilly Winds Don't Blow
- Ain't No Use
- Strange Fruit
- Sinnerman
- Mood Indigo
- The Other Woman
- Love Me Or Leave Me
- Don't Explain
- Little Girl Blue
- Chauffeur
- For Myself
- The Ballad Of Hollis Brown
- This Year's Kisses
- Images
- Nearer Blessed Lord
- I Love Your Lovin' Ways
- Four Women
- What More Can I Say
- Lilac Wine
- That's All I Ask
- Break Down And Let It All Out
- Why Keep On Breaking My Heart
- Wild Is The Wind
- Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
- If I Should Lose You
- Either Way I Lose
- Don't Pay Them No Mind
- I'm Gonna Leave You
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man
- Keeper Of The Flame
- The Gal From Joe's
- Take Me To The Water
- I'm Going Back Home
- I Hold No Grudge
- Come Ye
- He Ain't Comin' Home No More
- Work Song
- I Love My Baby
- A Monster
Music reviews of Four Women: Nina Simone Philips Recordings
Music Review: Extensive Book Alone Is Worth the Price, Absolutely ESSENTIAL and HISTORICAL
Rating: 5 Stars
Like many of Nina's Fans, I already own just about every CD /LP issued on Nina, including her work for the Philips label. At first I thought plunking down $35 on this 4-CD box set was redundant, especially when I have the songs. Then I heard about the extensive project and digital sound remastering Verve/Universal was undergoing for this collection, and it seemed worth the price. By the way, some have accused Verve/Universal of "Cashing In" on Nina's sudden passing in 2003 with this collection since it was released only weeks after her death in April 2003. Actually this project was commissioned by Universal in October 2002. The box set was a work in progress six months BEFORE Nina died.
The beautiful leather-bound box set houses each of the four CD's in a separate sleeve. What sets this Nina Simone Anthology apart from all others is the extensive 56-page book --- full of rare, never-before-seen photographs of "The High Priestess of Soul". There are detailed liner notes about the songs, their historical context and some behind-the-scenes "dishy dirt" about Nina's tempermental clashes with producers, songwriters, musicians, and other artists. No one can ever accuse Nina Simone of being BORING ! Upon playing the CD's, the first thing you notice is how gorgeous it sounds with every nuance and detail of Nina's voice and music captured. If you already own the Verve CD's, believe me, listening to this box set is like hearing them for the FIRST time. It's THAT good !
If you are a die-hard Nina Simone Fan, I advise you to get this box set while you can. Universal/Verve is no longer producing these since they are costly to make. There are still plenty in music stores like Tower, Virgin, or even here on Amazon. If you see this marked down to a good price (anything within $30) -- GET IT !! Many of Nina's Fans will argue whether the Philips Years were her BEST. I do feel the music she recorded up until 1968 are absolutely ESSENTIAL, so this Philips Collection is part of that era.
After 1968, I feel her music started to veer in a new direction. She was taking on too many cover songs sung by other artists (Bee Gees, Dylan, Byrds, Sinatra). She was also taking a long, hard look at the socio-political situation of the Sixties. Not that these issues don't matter, but the music sounded different. They often come off as hard-toned and militant. At Philips, even though she did songs like "Four Women" and "Mississippi Goddam", there was none of the bitter tone or militancy associated with her RCA recordings. With the exception of her first release for RCA "Nina Simone Sings the Blues" (which is another essential MUST HAVE), the RCA years found Nina singing less and less songs about matters of the heart and more about the tumultuous socio-political climate around her. She was also ill-advised to record TOO MANY cover songs by other artists after she left the Philips label. It seems her own uniqueness and originality had deserted her. Sometimes these songs sound ill fitting. If you listen to her cover of the Byrds' "Turn, Turn, Turn", you get the sense she sounded BORED with the material. One does not get this impression with the Philips recordings at all. Even when she covers an important politically-charged theme like lynching in "Strange Fruit" (originally sung by the one and only Billie Holiday), Nina's version was fresh, electric, and shocking in her own unique way. That is one good example of doing a protest song and still sounding musical and political at the same time.
The Philips Years - Four Women Box Set captures a unique, maturing woman and artist at the absolute peak of her artistry and musicality. Get it while you can !
Description of Four Women: Nina Simone Philips Recordings
This beautiful, 4-CD set takes all seven albums that Nina Simone recorded for Philips - Broadway/Blues/Ballads, I Put A Spell On You, Pastel Blues, Let It All Out, Wild Is The Wind and the classics Nina Simone in Concert and High Priestess of Soul - and packages them with a 56-page booklet containing rare photos and detailed liner notes to form a tremendous tribute to one of the great singers and personalities of our time. The discs are housed in sleeves within the hardback book, which is housed in a 'snakeskin' slipcase. Verve Records. 2003.North Carolina-born, classically-trained pianist/singer/composer Nina Simone beautifully blended gospel, blues, jazz, soul, and r&b into her own spellbinding, sepia-tinged artistry. This four-CD box set was in production before her untimely death on April 21, 2003. It covers Simone's seven albums for the Philips label from 1964 to 1966, and it's a good synopsis of her wide-ranging material. Mostly backed by trios and orchestras, Simone's rich and regal contralto rings with authority, whether she's singing George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Jacques Brel's "Ne Me Quitte Pas," or Bob Dylan's "The Ballad of Hollis Brown." Simone makes them all their own. In fact, this project should cause new generations to reevaluate Simon's own compositions beyond her African-American civil rights anthem, "Mississippi Goddam." Her song "Come Ye" and the title track--a four-part, mini-opus which pays tribute to four black women who embody slavery, mixed race heritage, prostitution, and black militancy--are excellent sneak previews of today's Afrocentric movement. --Eugene Holley, Jr.
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