Recorded in 1980 at a Quebec concert performance before thousands of adoring fans at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of Place des Arts in Montreal, this just-reissued 33-minute album provides a personal glimpse of the persona that Nina Simone brought us. The concert is unique. Simone performs some of the material alone, involves the audience on occasion, ...

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Nina Simone: Fodder on My Wings & Baltimore

by Celeste Sunderland
July 1, 2005

Had Nina Simone not gotten so fed up with the music industry and been so disgusted by racism in America that she left for Barbados, Liberia, the Netherlands and France, we may never have had the incredible songs that pulse and hark and lament through two landmark albums, Fodder on My Wings and Baltimore. However, destiny ...

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Nina Simone: Baltimore

Read "Baltimore" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
March 7, 2005

Nina Simone was called “The High Priestess of Soul." We remember her for the eclectic approach she applied to pop music and the emotion she poured into her music every time out. While Baltimore wasn't among her most memorable projects, it does offer a clear picture of the artist's spirit. This reissue provides an opportunity for ...

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Nina Simone: Recognition of a Signifyin' Songbird

by Marc Minsker
January 16, 2005

Nina Simone spent her entire life jumping. Jumping from one continent to another, from the South to the North, from the church to the blues, from jazz to pop. Her incredibly diverse repertoire demonstrates the kind of genre-hopping she undertook during her long and illustrious career. But what's most impressive about Nina Simone's work is not ...

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Gold

By Nina Simone

Label: RCA Records
Released: 2004

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Enter the Mowo!

By Mocean Worker

Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Chick a Boom Boom Boom; Only the Shadow Knows; Right Now; Shamma Lamma Ding Dong; Ill Take the Woods; Salted Fatback; Move; Thats Whats Happenin Tonight; On and On; Blackbird; Float; Collection II.