To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story

To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story

by Nina SimoneNina Simone

Overview

  • This 3-CD career retrospective (1957-1993) includes Nina Simone's work for the Bethlehem, Colpix, Philips, RCA, CTI and Elektra labels.
  • It also features a DVD containing an Emmy-nominated, never-before-released documentary from 1970.
  • 54 songs, 8 previously unreleased tracks, including some never recorded elsewhere.
  • Nearly 4 hours of music.
  • Includes all chart hits (U.S. and U.K.) and her most famous signature songs.
  • Many unique and rare live recordings of her classic repertoire and the greatest album tracks from her entire career.
  • Liner notes include track-by-track commentary from Simone biographer David Nathan and introduction by Ed Ward, NPR’s “rock & roll historian” and Fresh Air correspondent.
  • Never-before-seen photos from her family archives, recording sessions and performances.

    • Product Details

    Release Date: 09/30/2008
    Label: Sony Legacy
    UPC: 0886971100921
    catalogNumber: 711009
    Rank: 52025

    Tracks

    Disc 1

    1. Mood Indigo
    2. I Loves You, Porgy
    3. My Baby Just Cares for Me
    4. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
    5. You Can Have Him
    6. Wild Is the Wind
    7. Trouble in Mind
    8. When Malindy Sings/Swing Low Sweet Chariot [Medley]
    9. See-Line Woman
    10. Pirate Jenny
    11. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
    12. I Put a Spell on You
    13. Ne Me Quitte Pas
    14. Feeling Good
    15. Four Women
    16. My Man's Gone Now
    17. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
    18. To Love Somebody
    19. Sunday in Savannah
    20. Backlash Blues

    Disc 2

    1. Mississippi Goddam
    2. In the Morning
    3. Ain't Got No -- I Got Life
    4. Do What You Gotta Do
    5. Seems I'm Never Tired Loving You
    6. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
    7. The Times They Are A-Changin'
    8. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
    9. The Other Woman
    10. I Think It's Going to Rain Today
    11. Save Me
    12. Revolution
    13. To Be Young, Gifted and Black
    14. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
    15. Westwind
    16. Who Knows Where the Time Goes
    17. Suzanne

    Disc 3

    1. No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
    2. Just Like a Woman
    3. Here Comes the Sun
    4. Tanywey
    5. Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
    6. My Sweet Lord/Today Is a Killer [Medley]
    7. Let It Be Me
    8. Poppies
    9. Mr. Bojangles
    10. I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
    11. Nina
    12. Zungo
    13. Baltimore
    14. A Single Woman

    Disc 4

    1. Ain't Got No -- I Got Life
    2. Pirate Jenny
    3. Don't Pay Them No Mind
    4. Milestones
    5. Go to Hell
    6. Backlash Blues
    7. Percussion/Drums/Clapping/Dancing
    8. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
    9. Precious Lord
    10. Bonus Material

    Album Credits

    Performance Credits

    Nina Simone   Primary Artist,Piano,Vocals
    Jeff Hamilton   Drums
    Seldon Powell   Alto Flute,Tenor Saxophone
    Chuck Rainey   Bass
    Ernie Royal   Trumpet,Flugelhorn
    Hal Mooney   Conductor
    Weldon Irvine   Organ,Conductor
    Montego Joe   Drums
    David Nadien   Violin
    Jimmy Wisner   Conductor
    Nadi Qamar   Percussion,Kalimba
    Don Alias   Percussion,Bongos,Drums
    Lamar Alsop   Viola
    Seymour Barab   Cello
    Everett Barksdale   Guitar
    John Beal   Bass
    Maurice Bialkin   Cello
    Alfred Brown   Viola
    Garnett Brown   Trombone
    Ernie Calabria   Guitar
    Buck Clarke   Drums
    John Clayton   Bass
    Lewis Eley   Violin
    Max Ellen   Violin
    Barry Finclair   Violin
    Eric Gale   Guitar
    Eileen Gilbert   Vocals
    Harry Glickman   Violin
    Dominick Gravine   Trumpet,Bass Trumpet
    Milt Grayson   Vocals
    Paul Griffin   Piano
    Louis Haber   Violin
    Bob Hamilton   Drums
    Hilda Harris   Vocals
    Harry Lookofsky   Violin
    Ernie Hayes   Organ,Piano
    Haywood Henry   Saxophone
    Albert "Tootie" Heath   Drums
    Gary King   Bass
    Emile Latimer   Guitar
    Charles Libove   Violin
    Carl Lynch   Guitar
    Nicky Marrero   Percussion
    Charles McCracken   Cello
    Homer Mensch   Bass
    Marvin Morgenstern   Violin
    Horace Ott   Conductor
    Gene Perla   Bass
    Bernard "Pretty" Purdie   Drums,Timpani
    Emedin Rivera   Percussion,Conga
    David Sackson   Violin
    Jumma Santos   Conga
    Schackman   Guitar,Piano,Sitar,Tambourine
    Stuart Scharf   Guitar
    Richard Sortomme   Violin
    Irving Spice   Violin
    David Spinozza   Guitar
    Richard Tee   Organ
    Barbara Webb   Vocals
    Harold Wheeler   Conductor
    Jack Zayde   Violin
    Jimmy Bond   Bass
    Mel Tax   Flute,Alto Saxophone,Baritone Saxophone
    Chris White   Bass
    Julius Brand   Violin
    Michael Comins   Violin
    Jerry Jemmott   Bass
    Gordon "Specs" Powell   Percussion,Vibes
    Herbert Sorkin   Violin
    Rudy Stevenson   Flute,Guitar
    Emanuel Vardi   Viola
    Essien Nkrumah   Percussion
    Jerry Graff   Vocals
    Michael Melvoin   Piano
    Jimmy Madison   Drums
    Harold "Money" Johnson   Trumpet
    Joe Shepley   Trumpet
    Sammy Lowe   Conductor
    Lisle Atkinson   Bass
    Samuel Waymon   Organ,Vocals
    Doris Willingham   Background Vocals
    Wilbur Bascomb   Trumpet
    Alan Schulman   Cello
    Tom L. Smith   Guitar
    Henry Young   Guitar
    Marky Markowitz   Trumpet,Flugelhorn
    Joseph Haber   Violin
    Noah Hopkins   Vocals
    Samuel Wayman   Organ,Piano
    Maeretha Stewart   Vocals
    Alvin Rogers   Percussion
    Gene Taylor   Bass

    Technical Credits

    Marc Blitzstein   Composer
    George Gershwin   Composer
    Dimitri Tiomkin   Composer
    Kurt Weill   Composer
    Leonard Cohen   Composer
    Sandy Denny   Composer
    Richie Havens   Composer
    Pete Seeger   Composer,Adaptation
    Irving Berlin   Composer
    Nina Simone   Arranger,Composer,Producer
    Bob Dylan   Composer
    Aretha Franklin   Composer
    Randy Newman   Composer
    Tina Turner   Composer
    Miles Davis   Composer
    Langston Hughes   Composer
    Jeremy Lubbock   Orchestral Arrangements
    Irving Mills   Composer
    Jacques Brel   Composer
    Gilbert Bécaud   Composer
    Matt Kelly   Tape Research
    Hal Mooney   Arranger,Producer
    Carolyn Franklin   Composer
    Robin Gibb   Composer
    Weldon Irvine   Arranger,Composer,Producer
    Richard M. Jones   Composer
    Galt MacDermot   Composer
    Jimmy Wisner   Arranger
    Bertolt Brecht   Composer
    Oscar Brown   Composer
    Rod McKuen   Composer
    Jack Robinson   Cover Photo
    Barry Gibb   Composer
    Bennie Benjamin   Composer
    Barney Bigard   Composer
    Leslie Bricusse   Composer
    Manny Curtis   Composer
    Pierre Delanoë   Composer
    Walter Donaldson   Composer
    Duke Ellington   Composer
    André Fischer   Producer
    Ira Gershwin   Composer
    Jerry Jeff Walker   Composer
    Gus Kahn   Composer
    Anthony Newley   Composer
    Horace Ott   Arranger
    Joe Rene   Producer
    Walter Robinson   Producer
    William Salter   Composer
    Schackman   Musical Director
    Richard Seidel   Producer,Liner Notes
    Caiphus Semenya   Composer
    Nat Shapiro   Producer
    Pete Spargo   Producer
    Billy Taylor   Composer
    Creed Taylor   Producer
    Ned Washington   Composer
    Harold Wheeler   Arranger,Producer
    Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey   Composer
    James Rado   Composer
    Gerome Ragni   Composer
    Ed Ward   Liner Notes,Introduction
    Sammy Lowe   Arranger
    DuBose Heyward   Composer
    Sol Marcus   Composer
    Curtis Ousley   Composer
    Jessie Mae Robinson   Composer
    Hugh MacKay   Composer
    Richard Ahlert   Composer
    George Bass   Composer
    Gloria Caldwell   Composer
    Dick Dallas   Composer
    Traditional   Composer
    Michelle Holme   Art Direction
    Jeremy Wind   Composer
    Bob Blake   Producer
    Paul Laurence Dunbar   Composer

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