by Sapphire Mason-Brown

Created on: February 21, 2007   Last Updated: May 09, 2007

Originality: Groundbreaking
Lyrics: Sublime
Quality and consistency of tracks: Flawless
Value for Money: Excellent

This is almost the perfect Nina Simone album. It's perfection is tarnished by the fact that it doesn't include the song "Mr Bojangles. Luckily, the plethora of other songs can nearly make up for this. The album features the well known songs such as Felling Good, My Baby Just Cares for Me and I put a spell on you. The Album incorporates the pleasing vocals as well as many of the instrumental sections of her songs. Not only does Nina Simone Gold feature Miss Nina's songs as we are accustomed to them, it also provides some at first surprising but interesting remixes of Feeling Good and See Line Woman. In addition Nina Simone Gold feature some of the less common songs such as Tell Me More And More And Then Some, One September Day and I'm Going Back Home.

Nina Simone Gold is not just for fans, it's for anyone that likes good music, particularly vocal jazz. This is a fantastic introduction to Nina Simone and even for non-listeners the songs may sound familiar. All in all this is a fantastic album.

I strongly recommend this album to Nina Simone fans and any fans of vocal jazz.

Thank you for reading.

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