[TR24][OF] Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue - 1958/2013 (Vocal Jazz)

Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue Жанр: Vocal Jazz Год издания: 2013 Издатель (лейбл): Bethlehem (HighResAudio) Аудиокодек: FLAC 24bit/96kHz (*.flac) Тип рипа: tracks Битрейт аудио: lossless Продолжительность: 44:53 Источник (релизер): goashu (what) Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: да Треклист: 01. Mood Indigo (Ellington-Bigard-Mills) - 4:01 02. Don't Smoke in Bed (Robison) - 3:10 03. He Needs Me (Hamilton) - 2:29 04. Little Girl Blue (Rodgers-Hart) - 4:18 05. Love Me or Leave Me (Donaldson-Kahn) - 3:21 06. My Baby Just Cares for Me (Donaldson-Kahn) - 3:36 07. Good Bait (Dameron) - 5:27 08. Plain Gold Ring (Stone) - 3:48 09. You'll Never Walk Alone (Rodgers-Hammerstein) - 3:45 10. I Loves You Porgy (Heyward-Gershwin-Gershwin) - 4:10 11. Central Park Blues (Simone) - 6:48 Состав: Nina Simone - piano, vocals Jimmy Bond - bass Al Heath - drums Recorded in New York in December 1957.   Review by Thom Jurek Little Girl Blue, released in 1957, was Nina Simone's first recording, originally issued on the Bethlehem label. Backed by bassist Jimmy Bond and Albert "Tootie" Heath, it showcases her ballad voice as one of mystery and sensuality and showcases her up-tempo jazz style with authority and an enigmatic down-home feel that is nonetheless elegant. The album also introduced a fine jazz pianist. Simone was a solid improviser who never strayed far from the blues. Check the opener, her reading of Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo," which finger-pops and swings while keeping the phrasing deep-blue. It is contrasted immediately with one of the -- if not the -- definitive reads of Willard Robison's steamy leave-your-lover ballad "Don't Smoke in Bed." The title track, written by Rodgers & Hart, features "Good King Wenceslas" as a classical prelude to one of the most beautiful pop ballads ever written. It is followed immediately by the funky swing in "Love Me or Leave Me" with a smoking little piano solo in the bridge where Bach meets Horace Silver and Bobby Timmons. It's also interesting to note that while this was her first recording, the record's grooves evidence an artist who arrives fully formed; many of the traits Simone displayed throughout her career as not only a vocalist and pianist but as an arranger are put on first notice here. "My Baby Just Cares for Me" has a stride shuffle that is extrapolated on in the piano break. Her instrumental and improvising skills are put to good use on Tadd Dameron's "Good Bait," which is transformed into something classical from its original bebop intent. "You'll Never Walk Alone" feels more like some regal gospel song than the Rodgers & Hammerstein show tune it was. Of course, one of Simone's signature tunes was her version of "I Loves You, Porgy," which appears here for the first time and was released as a single. Her own "Central Park Blues" is one of the finest jazz tunes here, and it is followed with yet another side of Simone's diversity in her beautiful take on the folk-gospel tune "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," with quiet and determined dignity and drama. Another of her instrumentals compositions, "African Mailman," struts proud with deep Afro-Caribbean roots and rhythms.     Dynamic Range Meter foobar2000 1.3.8 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2015-08-29 17:11:41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: Nina Simone / Little Girl Blue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR11 -1.00 dB -15.14 dB 4:01 01-Mood Indigo DR12 -1.00 dB -19.43 dB 3:10 02-Don't Smoke in Bed DR12 -2.61 dB -18.83 dB 2:29 03-He Needs Me DR12 -3.23 dB -20.01 dB 4:18 04-Little Girl Blue DR11 -1.00 dB -14.27 dB 3:21 05-Love Me or Leave Me DR11 -1.00 dB -15.50 dB 3:36 06-My Baby Just Cares for Me DR13 -1.00 dB -18.21 dB 5:27 07-Good Bait DR14 -1.00 dB -18.87 dB 3:48 08-Plain Gold Ring DR12 -1.00 dB -19.36 dB 3:45 09-You'll Never Walk Alone DR11 -3.67 dB -20.25 dB 4:10 10-I Loves You Porgy DR14 -1.00 dB -19.12 dB 6:48 11-Central Park Blues -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks: 11 Official DR value: DR12 Samplerate: 96000 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 24 Bitrate: 2915 kbps Codec: FLAC ================================================================================