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The Official Nina Simone Thread
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This new biography on Nina Simone might be an interesting read:
Under a Strange, Soulful Spell
In 1960, one year after Nina Simone’s first album, “Little Girl Blue,” was released, the poet Langston Hughes struggled to put the appeal of Simone’s music and presence — that dusky voice, that unblinking gaze — into words. “She is strange,” Hughes wrote in The Chicago Daily Defender. “So are the plays of Brendan Behan, Jean Genet and Bertolt Brecht. She is far out, and at the same time common. So are raw eggs in Worcestershire.
Hughes was just getting warmed up. “She is different. So was Billie Holiday, St. Francis and John Donne. So is Mort Sahl, so is Ernie Banks.” He continued: “You either like her or you don’t. If you don’t, you won’t. If you do — wheee-ouuueu! You do!”
Simone soon befriended Hughes, and through him she dove into the beating heart of that era’s young black intelligentsia, becoming close to both James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry, who would become godmother to Simone’s daughter. That Simone was absurdly talented was already clear. But her new friends helped crystallize her inchoate political thinking.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/books/19book.html?ref=music
Under a Strange, Soulful Spell
In 1960, one year after Nina Simone’s first album, “Little Girl Blue,” was released, the poet Langston Hughes struggled to put the appeal of Simone’s music and presence — that dusky voice, that unblinking gaze — into words. “She is strange,” Hughes wrote in The Chicago Daily Defender. “So are the plays of Brendan Behan, Jean Genet and Bertolt Brecht. She is far out, and at the same time common. So are raw eggs in Worcestershire.
Hughes was just getting warmed up. “She is different. So was Billie Holiday, St. Francis and John Donne. So is Mort Sahl, so is Ernie Banks.” He continued: “You either like her or you don’t. If you don’t, you won’t. If you do — wheee-ouuueu! You do!”
Simone soon befriended Hughes, and through him she dove into the beating heart of that era’s young black intelligentsia, becoming close to both James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry, who would become godmother to Simone’s daughter. That Simone was absurdly talented was already clear. But her new friends helped crystallize her inchoate political thinking.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/books/19book.html?ref=music
Sundance Review: 'What Happened, Miss Simone' Details Nina Simone's Troubled Life & Legacy
John Legend is currently enjoying award recognition for "Glory," his emotional song for the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma.
But 50 years ago, jazz pianist and iconic vocalist Nina Simone paved the way for generations of musicians to come and put her promising career at risk by shifting from stirring standards to politically charged anthems like "To Be Young, Gifted And Black" and "Mississippi Goddam," the latter of which she performed at the very Selma-Montgomery march depicted in the Oscar-nominated film.
Watching archival footage of Simone's transformation from unlikely '60s R&B star to dogged Civil Rights activist is one of many powerful insights in What Happened, Miss Simone?, a documentary on the mercurial singer's life that helped open the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 22.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/e...-happened-miss-simone-nina-simone-documentary
John Legend is currently enjoying award recognition for "Glory," his emotional song for the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma.
But 50 years ago, jazz pianist and iconic vocalist Nina Simone paved the way for generations of musicians to come and put her promising career at risk by shifting from stirring standards to politically charged anthems like "To Be Young, Gifted And Black" and "Mississippi Goddam," the latter of which she performed at the very Selma-Montgomery march depicted in the Oscar-nominated film.
Watching archival footage of Simone's transformation from unlikely '60s R&B star to dogged Civil Rights activist is one of many powerful insights in What Happened, Miss Simone?, a documentary on the mercurial singer's life that helped open the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 22.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/e...-happened-miss-simone-nina-simone-documentary
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Happy Birthday!!! Oh what I would have given to see this woman live.
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Never heard her version. Chilling.
Never heard her version. Chilling.
Nina Simone Documentary Gets Netflix Release Date
The Nina Simone documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? will premiere June 26 on Netflix and play in theaters as well.
Liz Garbus' film, which includes previously unreleased recordings and rare archival footage, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. The film will next play Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, which runs April 23 to May 3 in Toronto.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6495229/nina-simone-documentary-release-date
The Nina Simone documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? will premiere June 26 on Netflix and play in theaters as well.
Liz Garbus' film, which includes previously unreleased recordings and rare archival footage, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. The film will next play Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, which runs April 23 to May 3 in Toronto.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6495229/nina-simone-documentary-release-date
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Yay!!! Netflix
Yay!!! Netflix
Last Thursday night (July 30), Lauryn Hill visited The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to perform her rousing rendition of Nina Simone’s signature song, “Feeling Good,” from the tribute album, Nina Revisited: A Tribute To Nina Simone. The album accompanies the Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone, both available now.
Dressed in all black, Hill delivered a strong performance of the jazz cover. The stage was packed with almost twenty performers as a part of her backing ensemble which included a string quartet.
Watch the stirring performance below. Ms. Hill still got it!
Read more: http://singersroom.com/content/2015...s-Feeling-Good-On-Jimmy-Fallon/#ixzz3huDDPhdb
Read more at http://singersroom.com/content/2015...ing-Good-On-Jimmy-Fallon/#oFSiJ6IzI2I4VdRb.99
http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/ms-lauryn-hill-feeling-good/2887113
Dressed in all black, Hill delivered a strong performance of the jazz cover. The stage was packed with almost twenty performers as a part of her backing ensemble which included a string quartet.
Watch the stirring performance below. Ms. Hill still got it!
Read more: http://singersroom.com/content/2015...s-Feeling-Good-On-Jimmy-Fallon/#ixzz3huDDPhdb
Read more at http://singersroom.com/content/2015...ing-Good-On-Jimmy-Fallon/#oFSiJ6IzI2I4VdRb.99
http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/ms-lauryn-hill-feeling-good/2887113
Saving Nina Simone’s Birthplace as an Act of Art and Politics
TRYON, N.C. — If you wanted to make a pilgrimage to the childhood home of W.E.B. Du Bois in Massachusetts or Malcolm X in Nebraska, you’d have to settle for a historical marker: The houses of those civil rights activists were lost before preservationists could save them, as many important African-American historical sites have been.
It’s a fate that easily could have met a humble three-room clapboard perched on a rise in this tiny, pretty town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, unknown even to many residents until a few years ago. For those who knew that 30 East Livingston Street was the birthplace of Tryon’s most famous resident — the singer, soul legend and civil rights icon Nina Simone — the house’s appearance on the market late last year crystallized fears that its existence, as stubborn as that of Simone herself, might be coming to an end.
And that, unexpectedly, is where the New York art world entered the picture.
Over the last month, four prominent African-American artists — the conceptualist Adam Pendleton, the sculptor and painter Rashid Johnson, the collagist and filmmaker Ellen Gallagher and the abstract painter Julie Mehretu — quietly got together, pooled their money and bested competing bids to snatch the house up for $95,000. They describe the purchase as an act of art but also of politics, a gratifying chance to respond to what they see as a deepening racial divide in America, when Simone’s fiery example of culture warrior seems more potent than ever.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/...rod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=2
TRYON, N.C. — If you wanted to make a pilgrimage to the childhood home of W.E.B. Du Bois in Massachusetts or Malcolm X in Nebraska, you’d have to settle for a historical marker: The houses of those civil rights activists were lost before preservationists could save them, as many important African-American historical sites have been.
It’s a fate that easily could have met a humble three-room clapboard perched on a rise in this tiny, pretty town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, unknown even to many residents until a few years ago. For those who knew that 30 East Livingston Street was the birthplace of Tryon’s most famous resident — the singer, soul legend and civil rights icon Nina Simone — the house’s appearance on the market late last year crystallized fears that its existence, as stubborn as that of Simone herself, might be coming to an end.
And that, unexpectedly, is where the New York art world entered the picture.
Over the last month, four prominent African-American artists — the conceptualist Adam Pendleton, the sculptor and painter Rashid Johnson, the collagist and filmmaker Ellen Gallagher and the abstract painter Julie Mehretu — quietly got together, pooled their money and bested competing bids to snatch the house up for $95,000. They describe the purchase as an act of art but also of politics, a gratifying chance to respond to what they see as a deepening racial divide in America, when Simone’s fiery example of culture warrior seems more potent than ever.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/...rod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=2