Jazz Articles about Nina Simone

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Radio & Podcasts

Freedom! Juneteenth National Independence Day

by Katchie Cartwright
June 28, 2026

Caminhos do Jazz celebrates the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth National Independence Day, Emancipation Day here in Texas, with songs of freedom: Simone, Reeves, Harris, Giddens, Staples, Ranky Tanky, Ladysmith, Soares, BaianaSystem, Owens, Horn... Playlist Nina Simone “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" by Billy Taylor & Dick Dallas from Silk & Soul (RCA Victor, 1967) 00:36 Dianne Reeves “Freedom Dance" by Dianne Reeves, Eddie del Barrio, Jeanne Pisano from Art & Survival (EMI, ...

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Tom Oren, Julie Benko, Alfie Jackson, Yelena Eckemoff, Ingrid Jensen, Melissa Aldana & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 23, 2026

This broadcast includes fundraising for the station with new music from Tom Oren, Julie Benko, Alfie Jackson, Yelena Eckemoff, Ingrid Jensen and Melissa Aldana, plus birthday shoutouts to Nina Simone, Carmen Staaf, Sharel Cassity and Honorable Man Harold Arlen, among others. Happy listening and please and support the artists you hear -see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman's Place is in the Groove. Many thanks for ...

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New Releases By Cynthia Sayer, Fred Hersch & Rondi Charleston, Sullivan Fortner, Celebrating Nina Simone & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 24, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Cynthia Sayer, Fred Hersch & Rondi Charleston and Sullivan Fortner, with birthday shoutouts to Nina Simone, Nicole Mitchell, Sharel Cassity, Elsa Nilsson, lyricist Shelley Nyman and Dena DeRose. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke, inspire and remind the world that A Woman's Place Is In the Groove.Playlist Sharel Cassity + Coleen Clark “Syl-O-gism" from Alliance ...

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New Releases And Birthday Shoutouts To Nina Simone, Ida Cox, Nancy Wilson & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
March 4, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Jill McCarron, Lynne Arriale, Mamiko Watanabe, Debby Wang, Sara Michaels, Natalie Douglas, a digital release for Nina Simone's Back and a second single from Rachel Z plus birthday shoutouts to Nina Simone, Patti Wicks, Ida Cox, and Nancy Wilson, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke and inspire.Playlist Jill McCarron ...

Album Review

Nina Simone: You've Got To Learn

Read "You've Got To Learn" reviewed by Scott Gudell

by Scott Gudell
August 19, 2023

Socially conscious black troubadours such as William Warfield, Harry Belafonte, Odetta and many others were challenging the U.S. government's questionable policies on numerous things including war, civil rights, equality and more, by the mid-20th century. R&B soul master Marvin Gaye would follow in the early 1970s and pointedly ask “What's Going On" while the Temptations were declaring that both the question and the answer were that we were all living on a “Ball of Confusion." There was another ...

Album Review

Nina Simone: You've Got To Learn

Read "You've Got To Learn" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
July 19, 2023

The release of this magnificent album, recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966, is headline news for fans of Nina Simone. None of the material, all of it high grade, has been made available before. Newport promoter George Wein donated the tapes of Simone's performance to the US Library of Congress, where they lay forgotten until, following Wein's passing in 2021, Simone historian Nadine Cohodas unearthed them. Simone is in peak form, accompanied by guitarist Rudy Stevenson, bassist ...

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Jazz "Twofers": Nina Simone, Lester Bowie, Bob Brookmeyer And More

by Jerome Wilson
May 20, 2022

In the tradition of Classic Rock radio's “Twofer Tuesdays," this show features sets of two (or three) tracks by a single jazz artist displaying some of the variety of music they have played in their careers. Musicians featured on this program include Nina Simone, Lester Bowie, Jazz Passengers and Bob Brookmeyer. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Bob Brookmeyer ...