The Amazing Nina Simone

Infobox Album
Name = The Amazing Nina Simone
Type = Album
Artist = Nina Simone


Released = 1959
Recorded = New York City 1959
Genre = Vocal Jazz Blues Folk
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Label = Colpix Records
Producer = Hecky Krasnow
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Last album = "Nina Simone and Her Friends"
(1959)
This album = "The Amazing Nina Simone"
(1959)
Next album = "Nina Simone at Town Hall"
(1959)

"The Amazing Nina Simone" is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It was her first album for the label Colpix Records, which would quickly be followed by 8 albums on the same label, before signing with Philips Records in 1964. The album still very much oozes the atmosphere of upper-class cocktail Jazz, in accordance with the image she had on her debut album, "Little Girl Blue" (1958) for Bethlehem Records. It also has some folk songs on it (for example "Children Go Where I Send You").

Track listing

# "Blue Prelude" (Bishop, Jenkins) - 3:15
# "Children Go Where I Send You" (Simone, Traditional) - 2:45
# "Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)" (Gale, Silverman) - 2:56
# "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Goodman, Razaf, Sampson, Webb) - 2:05
# "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Hammerstein, Rodgers) - 3:50
# "You've Been Gone Too Long" (Sellers) - 2:08
# "That's Him Over There" (Keith, Spence) - 2:28
# "Chilly Winds Don't Blow" (Krasnow, Lovelock) - 2:40
# "Theme From "Middle of the Night" (Bassman) - 2:25
# "Can't Get Out of This Mood" (Loesser, McHugh) - 2:30
# "Willow Weep for Me" (Ronell) - 3:10
# "Solitaire" (Borck, Guion, Nutter) - 3:20

Personnel

*Nina Simone - vocals, piano
*Bob Mersey - arrangement