NINA SIMONE - At Town Hall (Jackpot Reissue w/ 2 Bonus Tracks) - LP - 180g Red Vinyl [FEB 7]

LP - Limited Edition 180g Red Vinyl featuring the complete LP with 2 Bonus Tracks (2025 Repress). contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian Morton and Paris' prestigious Jazz Magazine.

Nina Simone's first studio recording, the 1957 LP Little Girl Blue, featured the singer backing herself on piano, with Jimmy Bond on bass and Albert "Tootie" Heath on drums. Another trio (with Wilbur Ware on bass, and Ben Riley on drums) backed her during her frst big break: the recording of her September 12, 1959, concert at New
York's Town Hall, issued that same year as Nina Simone at Town Hall. It includes such classics as 'Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair', 'The Other Woman', and an
extended reading of Gershwin's 'Summertime'.

Tracklist: 

Side A
1. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair [3:32]
2. Exactly Like You [3:16]
3. The Other Woman [2:59]
4. Under the Lowest [5:33]
5. You Can Have Him [5:54]
6. Little Liza Jane [4:16] *

Side B
1. Summertime (Parts 1 &2) [2:45]
2. Cotton-Eyed Joe [2:56]
3. Return Home [5:27]
4. Wild Is the Wind [3:38]
5. Fine and Mellow [3:28]
6. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out [2:40] *

* = Bonus tracks