Nina Simone "At Carnegie Hall" LP

• Vinyl LP
• Live jazz / vocal

Nina Simone’s Carnegie Hall concert on May 12, 1963, brings her piano playing and singing to a program spanning standards, film themes and folk material. The ensemble includes guitarists Alvin Schackman and Phil Orlando, bassist Lisle Atkinson and drummer Montego Joe.

Black Swan, If You Knew and the medley of The Other Woman and Cotton-Eyed Joe show her moving between markedly different moods. The performance places her classical training, jazz phrasing and command of narrative in the same concert.

“put emotion into standards that few could match in such convincing fashion”

— Hi-Fi+, reviewing the Carnegie Hall recordings

Edition details

Track listing

1. Black Swan (From the Medium)
2. Theme from Samson & Delilah
3. If You Knew
4. Theme from Sayonara
5. The Twelfth of Never
6. Will I Find My Love Today
7. Medley / the Other Woman Cotton Eyed Joe
8. When I Was a Young Girl
9. The Young Knight

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UPC: 0889397005108