![]() Quitte Pas” tender, poignant, filled with melancholy and with charts), eerily moody, unrestrained, drama to the max “Ne Me ![]() Misunderstood” and “I Put A Spell On You” (which had reached to #23 in Recordings were the original and so-soulful version “Don’t Let Me Be Hit for Nina, a British chart topper at #5, and thus a staple of her The song was used by Chanel inĪ perfume commercial in Europe in the 1980’s and it became a massive King Cole, Count Basie, and Woody Herman. Nina also cut “My Baby Just Cares For Me,” previously recorded by Nate The same mammoth 13 hour session in 1957, recorded in New York City, One of Nina’s stated musical influences wasīillie Holiday and her inspired reading of “Porgy” (from “Porgy &īess”) heralded the arrival of a new talent on the national scene. Nina to delve in the repertoire she had been performing at clubs up andĭown the eastern seaboard. The boisterous Nathan had insisted onĬhoosing songs for her debut set, but eventually relented and allowed Owner of the Ohio-based King Records (home to James Brown), to his Jazz Performance in New Hope, Pennsylvania, she was signed by Syd Nathan, ![]() After submitting a demo of songs she had recorded during a While her original dream was unfulfilled, Eunice ended up withĪn incredible worldwide career as Nina Simone – almost by default.Īt the age of twenty-four, Nina came to the attention of the record The end, she herself would claim that racism was the reason she did notĪttend. Love, but Eunice’s hopes for a career as a pioneering African AmericanĬlassical pianist were dashed when the school denied her admission. Her family had already moved to the City Of Brotherly Money for a scholarship for Eunice to study at Julliard in New YorkĬity before applying to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Graduating valedictorian of her high school class, the community raised This website captures milestones in a career that has had more than its share of peaks and valleys.After Humble roots that Eunice developed a lifelong love of Johann Sebastianīach, Chopin, Brahms, Beethoven and Schubert. Mazzanovich, who had moved to the small southern town. Was soon studying classical music with an Englishwoman named Muriel Able to play virtually anything by ear, she ![]() – but didn’t sing – in her mother’s church, displaying remarkable Wrong, to carry herself with dignity, and to work hard. Raised in theĬhurch on the straight and narrow, her parents taught her right from Methodist minister, and her father, a handyman and preacher himself,Ĭouldn’t ignore young Eunice’s God-given gift of music. When she started playing piano by ear at the age of three. So please join me in this ongoing visceral, investigative, and cerebral quest to explore, enjoy, and pay homage to the endlessly creative and uniquely magisterial dimensions of MUSIC in all of its guises and expressive identities.īorn Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina on FebruaryĢ1st, 1933, Nina’s prodigious talent as a musician was evident early on in order to search for what individual artists and ensembles do creatively to challenge and transform our ingrained ideas and attitudes of what music is and could be. Thus this magazine will strive to critically question and go beyond the conventional imposed notions and categories of what constitutes the generic and stylistic definitions of 'Jazz', 'classical music', 'Blues', 'Rhythm and Blues', 'Rock ' n Roll', 'Pop', 'Funk', 'Hip Hop' etc. I'm also interested in critically examining the wide range of ideas and opinions that govern our commodified notions of the production, consumption, marketing, and commercial exchange of organized sound(s) which largely define and thereby (over)determine our present relationships to music in the general political economy and culture. The purpose is to openly explore, examine, investigate, reflect on, studiously critique, and take opulent pleasure in the sonic and aural dimensions of human experience known and identified to us as MUSIC. This online magazine features the very best in contemporary creative music in this creative timezone NOW (the one we're living in) as well as that of the historical past.
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