The Nina Simone Mastertakes

Compilation by Nina Simone

Released 7 June 2015

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Tracklist

1
Mood Indigo
4:03
5.0 ★
2
Don’t Smoke in Bed
3:13
4.0 ★
3
He Needs Me
2:30
5.0 ★
4
Little Girl Blue
4:18
4.0 ★
5
Love Me or Leave Me
3:23
4.6 ★
6
My Baby Just Cares for Me
3:38
3.9 ★
7
Good Bait (instrumental)
5:28
3.6 ★
8
Plain Gold Ring
3:56
3.0 ★
9
You’ll Never Walk Alone (instrumental)
3:48
5.0 ★
10
I Loves You Porgy
4:11
3.5 ★
11
Central Park Blues (instrumental)
6:51
5.0 ★
12
Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
3:32
3.5 ★
13
Exactly Like You
3:14
3.0 ★
14
The Other Woman
3:01
4.5 ★
15
Under the Lowest
5:32
16
You Can Have Him
5:49
17
Summertime (instrumental)
2:54
18
Summertime (vocal version)
2:43
19
Cotton‐Eyed Joe
2:53
2.0 ★
20
Return Home
5:28
4.0 ★
21
Wild Is the Wind
3:29
22
Fine and Mellow
3:31
23
Blue Prelude
3:22
4.0 ★
24
Children Go Where I Send You
2:52
4.0 ★
25
Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)
3:02
4.0 ★
26
Stompin’ at the Savoy
2:10
4.0 ★
27
It Might as Well Be Spring
3:57
3.6 ★
28
You’ve Been Gone Too Long
2:11
5.0 ★
29
That’s Him Over There
2:32
4.4 ★
30
Chilly Winds Don’t Blow
2:47
4.0 ★
31
Theme From “Middle of the Night”
2:30
3.0 ★
32
Can’t Get Out of This Mood
2:33
4.0 ★
33
Willow Weep for Me
3:14
3.4 ★
34
Solitaire
3:25
5.0 ★
35
Rags and Old Iron
4:09
4.5 ★
36
No Good Man
3:39
4.0 ★
37
Gin House Blues
3:04
3.0 ★
38
I’ll Look Around
5:04
3.5 ★
39
I Love to Love
3:24
3.0 ★
40
Work Song
2:35
4.5 ★
41
Where Can I Go Without You
2:52
3.0 ★
42
Just Say I Love Him
6:35
5.0 ★
43
Memphis in June
2:39
5.0 ★
44
Forbidden Fruit
3:47
3.0 ★
45
Trouble in Mind (live at Newport)
5:43
46
Blues for Porgy (live at Newport)
5:10
1.5 ★
47
Little Liza Jane (live at Newport)
4:34
48
You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To (live at Newport)
5:23
49
Flo Me La (live at Newport)
7:11
1.0 ★
50
Nina’s Blues (live at Newport)
6:12
51
In the Evening by the Moonlight (live at Newport)
6:13
52
Just in Time (live at Village Gate)
6:38
3.0 ★
53
He Was Too Good to Me (live at Village Gate)
4:54
54
House of the Rising Sun (live at Village Gate)
4:33
5.0 ★
55
Bye Bye Blackbird (live at Village Gate instrumental)
8:17
1.0 ★
56
Brown Baby (live at Village Gate)
5:45
2.0 ★
57
Zungo (live at Village Gate)
3:01
58
If He Changed My Name (live at Village Gate)
3:59
59
Children Go Where I Send You (live at Village Gate)
7:47
60
Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
2:50
3.5 ★
61
I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)
4:07
4.0 ★
62
Hey Buddy Bolden
2:28
3.0 ★
63
Merry Mending
2:35
3.0 ★
64
Something to Live For
2:55
3.0 ★
65
You Better Know It
2:24
4.0 ★
66
I Like the Sunrise
3:01
3.0 ★
67
Solitude
3:45
5.0 ★
68
The Gal From Joe’s
2:08
4.5 ★
69
Satin Doll (instrumental)
3:37
4.5 ★
70
It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
2:33
4.0 ★

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Release credits

Al Schackman
guitar [35-51, 54]
Albert “Tootie” Heath
drums (drum set) [1-11, 13-22], membranophone [15, 17, 20]
Bob Blake
producer [13-22]
Bobby Hamilton
drums (drum set) [35-51, 54]
Cal Lampley
producer [35-44]
Chris White
bass [35-51, 54]
Hal Mooney
producer [12]
Hecky Krasnow
producer [23-34]
Jack Gold
producer [13-22]
James E. Bond
bass [1-2, 4, 7-9, 11, 13-22], double bass [3, 5-6, 10]
Layo & Bushwacka!
remixer [35]
Nina Simone
arranger [12], lead vocals [1-6, 8, 10, 16, 21-22, 24, 27, 33, 37, 40, 44, 54, 61-62, 66-67, 70], piano [1-51], vocal [12-14, 18-19, 23, 25-26, 28-32, 34-36, 38-43, 45-51, 61]
Ralph Burns
arranger [67], conductor [67]
Robert Mersey
arranger [23-34]
Rudy van Gelder
recording [23-34]
The Malcom Dodds Singers
choir vocals [67]

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The Nina Simone Mastertakes
Digital Media
7 June 2015