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Nina Simone might top your playlist and groups of Goats of the jazz and blues, but her chart positions were not ...
On what would have been Nina Simone’s 90th birthday, we honor our lady of perpetual real talk with 3 hours worth of tunes (almost) as funky and as deep as her.
“You’ve Got to Learn,” a live recording of Nina Simone’s set at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, is now widely available. On the record, you can hear the audience gasp when the High ...
Music played a huge role in defining the filmmaker’s distinctive atmosphere on the big and small screens. Hear 13 examples. By David Renard Songs to put you in the mood. By John White, Wendy Dorr, ...
Enter the intimate Argyros Stage at South Coast Repertory for “Nina Simone: Four Women” and you’re serenaded with a background loop of Lauryn Hill and Muse covering the sublime ’60s song ...
News about Nina Simone. Commentary and archival information about Nina Simone from The New York Times.