Nina Simone – At Town Hall

SIDE A:

01 BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE’S HAIR
02 EXACTLY LIKE YOU
03 THE OTHER WOMAN
04 UNDER THE LOWEST
05 YOU CAN HAVE HIM

SIDE B:

01 SUMMERTIME [Parts 1 & 2]
02 COTTON-EYED JOE
03 RETURN HOME
04 WILD IS THE WIND
05 FINE AND MELLOW
06 MY BABY JUST CARES FOR ME (*)

(*) BONUS TRACK

Nina Simone’s first recording ever, the 1957 LP “Little Girl Blue”, featured the singer backing herself on piano, with Jimmy Bond on bass and Albert “Tootie” Heath on drums. That was the exact personnel present during her first big break: the recording taped at her September 12, 1959 concert at New York’s Town Hall, issued that same year as Nina Simone at Town Hall. Presented here in its entirety, the album includes such classics as “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair”, “The Other Woman”, and an extended reading of Gershwin’s “Summertime”.