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Simone’s multi-faceted and radical story is laid bare on ‘Nina Simone: The Montreux Years’. From Nina’s glorious and emotional 1968 performance to her fiery and unpredictable concert in 1976, one of the festival’s most remarkable performances ever witnessed, the collection includes recordings from all of her five legendary Montreux concerts – 1968, 1976, 1981, 1987 and 1990.
Featuring rare and previously unreleased material from Claude Nobs’ private collection, Nina Simone devotees worldwide will be thrilled by the inclusion of the powerful I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free, poignant and fearless Four Women and Simone’s hauntingly beautiful performance of Ne Me Quitte Pas. A spine-tingling version of Janis Ian’s searing and potent Stars, which Simone covered for the very first time during her 1976 Montreux performance, sits alongside her bold and electrifying re imagine of Bob Marley’s ballad No Woman No Cry in 1990. The collection closes with the encore of Nina Simone’s final Montreux Jazz Festival concert and one of Simone’s most-loved and best-known recordings, the exuberant My Baby Just Cares For Me, showcasing the deep and multidimensional facets of Simone’s life and music.
FACE A
1. Someone To Watch Over Me
au Casino Montreux Date le 10/7/1987
2. Backlash Blues
au Casino Montreux Date le 3/7/1976
3. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
au Casino Montreux Date le 3/7/1976
4. See-Line Woman
au Casino Montreux Date le 13/7/1990
FACE B
1. Little Girl Blue (Pt 1 and 2)
au Casino Montreux Date le 3/7/1976
2. Don’t Smoke In Bed
au Casino Montreux Date le 13/7/1990
3. Stars
au Casino Montreux Date le 3/7/1976
4. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
au Casino Montreux Date le 13/7/1990
FACE C
1. African Mailman
au Casino Montreux Date le 3/7/1976
2. Just In Time
au Casino Kursaal le 16/6/1968
3. Four Women
au Casino Montreux Date le 13/7/1990
4. No Woman No Cry
au Casino Montreux Date le 13/7/1990
FACE D
1. Liberian Calypso
au Casino Montreux Date le 13/7/1990
2. Ne Me Quitte Pas
au Casino Montreux Date le 13/7/1990
3. Montreux Blues
au Casino Montreux le 19/7/1981
4. My Baby Just Cares For Me
au Casino Montreux Date le 13/7/1990