Artist: Nina Simone
Title: Seven Classic Albums Plus Bonus Tracks
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: Real Gone
Genre: Blues, Soul, Jazz
Quality: MP3 320kbps stereo
Total Time: 04:52:37
Total Size: 670 MB

American singer, songwriter, pianist.
Born: 21 February 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina, USA.
Died: 21 April 2003 in Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône, France (aged 70).
Nina was giving piano recitals after playing at her local church at an early age. Her childhood piano lessons were funded by her mother's employer and a local fund set up by her music teacher, so impressed were they by her talent.
She moved to Philadelphia aged 17, teaching piano and playing to raise the money for her studies at New York's renowned Juilliard School Of Music. To fund her family she worked in a bar in Atlantic City where she was also required to sing and built up a devoted following.
She recorded Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" which became a US Top 40 hit and transported her to a bigger stage, performing at Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival.
Her repertoire went on to embrace numerous Civil Rights anthems, a movement for which she was a passionate and prominent supporter. She left the US in the 1970s, moving first to Barbados, and some other places, including Africa and the Netherlands, before eventually settling in France where she died from cancer in 2003.
Nina's voice drew heavily on other music forms. It was infused with gospel, blues, soul, jazz, R&B, and folk. And it found a wider audience late in her life when "My Baby Just Cares For Me" became an unlikely UK chart hit when it featured in a TV ad campaign.
In fact her music stayed very popular with advertisers as her tracks have been used to promote a multitude of products on TV, including yoghurt ("Ain't Got No (I Got Life)"), Diet Coke ("I Put A Spell On You"), cars ("Sinnerman"), fabric conditioner ("Feeling Good"), and perfume ("Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"), et al.


CD 1 - Jazz As Played In An Exclusive Side Street Cafe (1959):
01. Mood Indigo
02. Don't Smoke In Bed
03. He Needs Me
04. Little Girl Blue
05. Love Me Or Leave Me
06. My Baby Just Cares For Me
07. Good Bait
08. Plain Gold Ring
09. You'll Never Walk Alone
10. I Loves You Porgy
11. Central Park Blues
12. My Baby Just Cares For Me

Nina Simone & Friends (1959):
13. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
14. For All We Know
15. African Mailman

CD 2 - The Amazing Nina Simone (1959):
01. Blue Prelude
02. Children Go Where I Send You
03. Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)
04. Stompin' At The Savoy
05. It Might As Well Be Spring
06. You've Been Gone Too Long
07. That's Him Over There
08. Chilly Winds Don't Blow
09. Theme From 'Middle Of The Night'
10. Can't Get You Out Of This Mood
11. Willow Weep For Me
12. Solitaire

Nina Simone At Town Hall (1959):
13. Black Is The Colour Of My True Loves Hair
14. Exactly Like You
15. The Other Women
16. Under The Lowest
17. I Don't Want Him Anymore
18. Summertime (Instrumental)
19. Summertime (Vocal)
20. Cotton Eyed Joe
21. Return Home
22. Wild Is The Wind
23. Fine And Mellow

CD 3 - Forbidden Fruit (1960):
01. Rags And Old Iron
02. No Good Man
03. Gin House Blues
04. I'll Look Around
05. I Love To Love
06. Work Song
07. Where Can I Go Without Him
08. Just Say I Love Him
09. Memphis In June
10. Forbidden Fruit

Nina At Newport (1960):
11. Trouble In Mind
12. Blues For Porgy
13. Li'l Liza Jane (Version 1)
14. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
15. Flo Me La
16. Nina's Blues
17. In The Evening By The Moonlight

CD 4 - Nina At The Village Gate (1962):
01. Just In Time
02. He Was Too Good To Me
03. House Of The Rising Sun
04. Bye Bye Blackbird
05. Brown Baby
06. Zungo
07. If He Changed My Name
08. Children Go Where I Send You

Nina Simone Sings Ellington (1962):
09. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
10. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
11. Hey Buddy Bolden
12. Merry Mending
13. Something To Live For
14. You Better Know It
15. I Like The Sunrise
16. Solitude
17. The Gal From Joe's
18. Satin Doll
19. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)