The Jazz Essentials

Tracklist

• 1
  This Year’s Kisses
  3:00
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
  2:40
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Tell Me More
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Strange Fruit
  3:31
  4.5 ★
• 5
  The Other Woman
  3:04
  4.5 ★
• 6
  Don’t Explain
  4:21
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Four Women
  4:26
  3.5 ★
• 8
  Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
  3:28
  3.5 ★
• 9
  What More Can I Say
  2:51
  5.0 ★
• 10
  That’s All I Ask
  2:28
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Break Down and Let It All Out
  2:39
  4.0 ★
• 12
  I Love My Baby
  4:06
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Take Me to the Water
  2:51
  2.5 ★
• 14
  Trouble in Mind
  2:41
  4.2 ★
• 15
  Ain’t No Use
  3:01
  4.5 ★
• 16
  Images
  2:51
  2.5 ★
• 17
  Nearer Blessed Lord
  4:32
  4.0 ★
• 18
  One September Day
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 19
  I Put a Spell on You
  2:50
  4.3 ★

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The Greatest Hits

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The Diva Series

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Sugar in My Bowl: The Very Best of Nina Simone 1967-1972

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Legends

Legends 1994

Release credits

• Al Schackman
  harmonica [3, 6-7, 12]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Bob Blake
  producer [5]
• Bobby Hamilton
  drums (drum set) [3, 6-7, 9-12]
• Hal Mooney
  arranger [18-19], conductor [13, 18-19], producer [2-4, 7-11, 14-15, 18-19]
• Horace Ott
  arranger [9-11], conductor [9-11]
• Jack Gold
  producer [5]
• James E. Bond
  bass [5]
• Lisle Atkinson
  bass guitar [3, 6-7, 12], double bass [7, 9-11], percussion [3, 6-7, 12]
• Nina Simone
  arranger [3, 6, 8, 13], piano [3, 5-13, 16, 18-19], vocal [5, 7-11, 13, 16, 18-19]
• Rudy Stevenson
  flute [3, 6-7, 9, 12], guitar [3, 6-7, 9, 11-12, 18-19]
• Stu Phillips
  arranger [2]

Issues

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  The Jazz Essentials

  CD
  1993