Pearl Acoustics - Great Recordings of all time
While most people think of Nina Simone as a great singer, in this video covering the recording of her first LP, ‘Little Girl Blue’, I focus on Nina the pianist and why this album deserves to be right up there among the all time great jazz albums.
Topics covered:
00:00 – Title Sequence
00:26 – Introduction / why ‘Little Girl Blue’?
02:35 – Nina Simone, her back story and classical music career aspirations
12:12 – ‘Mood Indigo’ by Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills
16:06 – ‘Don’t Smoke In Bed’ by Willard Robison
19:12 – ‘He Needs Me’ by Arthur Hamilton
21:54 – ‘Little Girl Blue’ by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
23:58 – ‘Love Me Or Leave Me’ by Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn
25:06 – ‘My Baby Just Cares For Me’ by Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn
26:48 – ‘Good Bait’ by Count Basie, Tadd Dameron
31:17 – ‘I Loves You Porgy’ by DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Nina Simone: Piano & vocals, Jimmy Bond: Double bass, Albert “Tootie” Heath: Drums
Little Girl Blue released by Bethlehem Records, February 1959. Recorded in the Beltone studios in New York in 1957.
Playback Equipment for this video: Qobuz streaming over BlueSound Node N130. Saphire series, Sugden DAP-800 Preamplifier, Pearl Acoustics PA 170 power amplifier (pre-production prototype), Pearl Acoustics Sibelius SG Natural Oak Loudspeakers.
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