Format Details: CD+Book
Release Date: 16 December 2022
Label: Jazz Images
Packaging Type: Hard Back book
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 9788409433810
Description
The complete 'Little Girl Blue'' album plus bonus track on 1 CD packaged together with a deluxe 88-page hardback book by renowned Penguin Guide To Jazz writer, Brian Morton.
'Little Girl Blue' was iconic singer/pianist Nina Simone's debut album and her first studio recording ever. Taped when she was 25 years old, it was a tremendous success and led to a fabulous career that would produce more than eighty studio sessions.
In this accompanying book, renowned Penguin Guide to Jazz and BBC writer Brian Morton explores Nina's life and career, as well as the making of this perennial jazz masterpiece, which contains such classics as Nina's renditions of 'My Baby Just Cares for Me' and 'I Loves You Porgy'.
The book is fully illustrated with classic, rare, and never before published photos by such important jazz photographers as Herb Snitzer, Gilles Petard, David Redfern, Jack Robinson, and Ian Showell, among others. Also included inside is the CD of 'Little Girl Blue' in its entirety, plus nine bonus tracks.
Tracklisting
Miles Davis
Chet Baker
Jackie Mclean
John Coltrane & Kenny Burrell
Sonny Rollins
Thelonious Monk
John Coltrane & Johnny Griffin
Art Blakey
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
