| features in: Album Chart of 1959 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1950s |
Recorded live at The Town Hall New York City on September 15, 1959 with the exception of “Cotton Eye Joe”, which had to be re-done in the studio a month later. Accompanying Nina on piano and vocals are bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath. Starting things off, Nina delivers a sombre version of an old folk ballad, “Black Is The Color Of My True Loves Hair” and certainly grabs attention with her moody chops. Her version of “Exactly Like You” (Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra, 1930) lifts the mood immediately, following a remarkably similar pattern to “My Baby Just Cares For Me”. Side 2 has instrumental and vocal versions of “Summertime” (one extended performance in reality) as well as a reading of the old traditional “Cotton Eyed Joe”. These are the modest highlights on an offering with meagre bounty.
The Jukebox Rebel
23–Aug–2009
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [03:23]  Nina Simone - Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair [live ny ’59] (Traditional) Moodcore |
| A2 | [03:06]  Nina Simone - Exactly Like You [live ny ’59] (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy MacHugh) Jazz |
| A3 | [02:52]  Nina Simone - The Other Woman [live ny ’59] (Jessie Mae Robinson) Songwriter |
| A4 | [05:18]  Nina Simone - Under The Lowest instrumental [live ny ’59] (Nina Simone) Jazz |
| A5 | [05:43]  Nina Simone - You Can Have Him (I Don’t Want Him) [live ny ’59] (Irving Berlin) Jazz |
| B1 | [02:49]  Nina Simone - Summertime instrumental [live ny ’59] (George Gershwin) Jazz |
| B2 | [02:39]  Nina Simone - Summertime [live ny ’59] (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) Moodcore |
| B3 | [02:51] Nina Simone - Cotton Eyed Joe (Traditional) Songwriter |
| B4 | [04:55]  Nina Simone - Return Home instrumental [live ny ’59] (Nina Simone) Jazz |
| B5 | [03:22]  Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind [live ny ’59] (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) Songwriter |
| B6 | [03:31] Nina Simone - Fine And Mellow [live ny ’59] (Billie Holiday) Jazz |
