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Released
  
1963

Producer
  
Jack Lewis

Artist
  
Nina Simone

Label
  
Colpix Records

Recorded
  
May 12, 1963

Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall (1963)
  
Folksy Nina (1964)

Release date
  
1963

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Genres
  
Jazz, Blues, Folk music, Vocal music

Similar
  
Nina Simone albums, Blues albums

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Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall is a 1963 album by jazz singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It is a live album recorded at Simone's first solo appearance at Carnegie Hall in New York City, on April 12, 1963, and was released on Colpix Records.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Black Swan" (Gian Carlo Menotti)
  2. "Theme from Samson and Delilah" (Victor Young)
  3. "If You Knew" (Nina Simone)
  4. "Theme from Sayonara" (instrumental) (Irving Berlin)
  5. "The Twelfth of Never" (Jerry Livingston, Paul Francis Webster)
  6. "Will I Find My Love Today" (Sean Fogarty, Sidney Shaw)
  7. "The Other Woman/Cotton-Eyed Joe" (Jessie Mae Robinson, Nina Simone/Traditional)

Complete 2-CD Set:

Disc One:

  1. "Black Swan" (Gian Carlo Menotti)
  2. "Theme from Samson and Delilah" (Victor Young)
  3. "If You Knew" (Nina Simone)
  4. "Theme from Sayonara" (instrumental) (Irving Berlin)
  5. "The Twelfth of Never" (Jerry Livingston, Paul Francis Webster)
  6. "Will I Find My Love Today" (Sean Fogarty, Sidney Shaw)
  7. "The Other Woman/Cotton-Eyed Joe" (Jessie Mae Robinson, Nina Simone/Traditional)

Bonus Track

  1. "If You Knew" (Nina Simone)

Disc Two:

  1. "Silver City Bound" (Alan Lomax, Huddie Ledbetter, John A. Lomax)
  2. "When I Was a Young Girl" (Sebastian "Billy" Mure)
  3. "Eratz Zavat Chalav U'dvash" (Eliahu Gamliel)
  4. "Lass of the Low Country" (Traditional; arranged by Nina Simone)
  5. "The Young Knight" (Charles Kingsley, Joseph Hathaway)
  6. "Vaynikehu" (also known as "Israeli Song In 5/4 Time") (Gil Aldema)
  7. "Mighty Lak a Rose" (Ethelbert Nevin, Frank Stanton)
  8. "Hush Little Baby" (Traditional)

Bonus Tracks

  1. "Little Liza Jane" (Traditional)
  2. "Will I Find a Resting Place?" (Traditional)
  3. "Blackbird" (Herbert Sacker, Nina Simone)

Personnel

  • Nina Simone - vocals, piano
  • Alvin Schackman, Phil Orlando - guitar
  • Lisle Atkinson - bass
  • Montego Joe (Roger Sanders) - drums
  • The Malcom Dodds Singers - backing vocals
  • Songs

    1Black Swan (from "The Medium")6:07
    2Theme from Samson and Delilah5:50
    3If You Knew3:30

    References

    Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall Wikipedia