June 8: Nina Simone documentary screens at CVUMC
May 15, 2018 23:34:02 GMT -8
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Post by Brian on May 15, 2018 23:34:02 GMT -8
Crescenta Valley Methodist Church will screen "What Happened, Miss Simone?" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 8, in the church's Fellowship Hall.
The documentary was nominated for an Academy Award. Here's a post I wrote on the message board a few years back touching on the evolution of her genius:
My most amazing purchase at Amoeba last month -- and another harbinger of the end of physical recordings -- was "Seven Classic Albums Plus Bonus Tracks" by Nina Simone, her first seven albums on four CD's, for $15.98. (Amazon sells the package for $21.82, plus shipping.) Even though I already had the LP's, I had to buy it. The remastering is excellent. I had a lot of trouble finding those records in the 1970's and '80's.
"Little Girl Blue," the title song of her 1958 debut album, was published by Rogers and Hart for their musical "Jumbo" in 1935. She sang it when she played at the Midtown Bar in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1954, but Nina made it hers forever when she borrowed the melody of the Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas." The recording ends quietly. When Nina performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1976, she updated the music and the lyrics and her attitude yet again, as seen in this beautiful You Tube video:
Sadly, the beautiful original video of Nina's performance has been deleted from You Tube, but luckily I was able to replace it with an audio only clip recently posted.
The documentary was nominated for an Academy Award. Here's a post I wrote on the message board a few years back touching on the evolution of her genius:
My most amazing purchase at Amoeba last month -- and another harbinger of the end of physical recordings -- was "Seven Classic Albums Plus Bonus Tracks" by Nina Simone, her first seven albums on four CD's, for $15.98. (Amazon sells the package for $21.82, plus shipping.) Even though I already had the LP's, I had to buy it. The remastering is excellent. I had a lot of trouble finding those records in the 1970's and '80's.
"Little Girl Blue," the title song of her 1958 debut album, was published by Rogers and Hart for their musical "Jumbo" in 1935. She sang it when she played at the Midtown Bar in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1954, but Nina made it hers forever when she borrowed the melody of the Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas." The recording ends quietly. When Nina performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1976, she updated the music and the lyrics and her attitude yet again, as seen in this beautiful You Tube video:
Sadly, the beautiful original video of Nina's performance has been deleted from You Tube, but luckily I was able to replace it with an audio only clip recently posted.
