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I Put a Spell on You
by Kyle Simpler
I Put a Spell on You Nina Simone with Stephen Cleary Da Capo Books ISBN: 0306813270 2003
When Nina Simone died earlier this year, the world lost one of its most memorable voices. She rose from a depression-era southern background to become not only “the high priestess of soul” but an important figure of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. Fortunately, she left behind quite an impressive musical legacy, ...
Continue ReadingNina Simone: To Love Somebody
by Trevor MacLaren
Nina Simone To Love Somebody RCA 1969
In the changing ways and times that were the late sixties, jazz was about to grasp some very revolutionary changes itself. Readers are likely to recall the work that was about to become the legendary genre of fusion. Although fusion was all about to happen, a record by one of the jazz's most overlooked innovators was already out, To Love Somebody by pianist/vocalist Nina Simone. The recording ...
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