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Nina Simone, "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" (Greatest Song of
Boing Boing (blog)
... Neil Young to Bryan Ferry have performed ace interpretations of Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," which I present here in Nina Simone's version. ...


Caricatured Commentary: Minstrel Meets Modern
New York Times
And couldn't he have left Sister Sledge, Nina Simone and Diana Ross out of it? In the first act the Crow family performs “We Are Family. ...

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New Zealand Herald

My first week at the NZ International Arts Festival
Stuff.co.nz
Saturday night was the Nina Simone tribute show, Sing The Truth: Nina Simone Remembered. The four vocalists featured in the show were Lizz Wright, ...
NZ Arts Festival: <i>Sing the Truth</i> reviewNew Zealand Herald
Arts Festival review: Sing The TruthStuff.co.nz

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Musician singing the blues
7Online.com
... Norman Curtis played with Oscar Brown Jr. and together they co-wrote these lyrics "Rags and Old Iron" for the legendary blues singer, Nina Simone. ...


New Zealand Herald

Arts Festival review: Sing The Truth
Stuff.co.nz
Sing The Truth: Nina Simone Remembered was running the risk of being a well-meaning tribute that was ultimately soft in style and lacking in substance. ...
NZ Arts Festival: <i>Sing the Truth</i> reviewNew Zealand Herald

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Moore: Shadow Theatre is in for the fight for its life
Denver Post
So a poetry slam slated for March 12, and the April 15 opening of "Simply Simone, The Music of Nina Simone" will go on as scheduled. ...


New Zealand Herald

NZ Arts Festival: <i>Sing the Truth</i> review
New Zealand Herald
Nina Simone was called "the high priestess of soul" and the musicians and audience gather to pay homage, if not worship. They leave uplifted by four ...

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Nina Simone - Princess Noir
MOG (blog)
We've been listening to and discussing Nina Simone lately. And by a strange coincidence here comes this new biography. I haven't read it, but I wanted to ...


Parramatta Advertiser

Pauline Jean saltues to Nina Simone
This is London
Nina Simone meant different things to different people. Though dubbed the High Priestess of Soul, ...
Four keepers of the Nina Simone flameParramatta Advertiser

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Parramatta Advertiser

Four keepers of the Nina Simone flame
Parramatta Advertiser
Nina Simone, the `high priestess of soul' and one of the most effective songwriters of the 20th century. In the early 1960s, before the terms “crossover” ...

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Album: Barb Jungr, The Men I Love (Naim)
Independent
After the tightly-focused spotlight on the late Nina Simone's repertoire that was Just Like A Woman, Barb Jungr returns to her wide-ranging selections from ...


Mariinsky, Mendes and more
The Nation
The 38th Hong Kong Arts Festival kicked off last Thursday with a double blast - a Nina Simone "tribute" concert featuring Simone's ...


Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: 'Princess Noire'
Washington Times
The problem with the book is Nina Simone herself. To put it in the mildest terms, while she was an original, gifted, sometimes magical performer and an ...


Jazz Favorites of Paula West
New California Media
Editor's Note: When it comes to legendary African American entertainers, one thinks of luminaries like Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, or Nina Simone. ...

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Sing the Truth: The Music of Nina Simone
Australian Stage Online
Four fabulous female singers joined Al Schackman and the band on a sultry night in Kings Park for Sing the Truth: The Music of Nina Simone. ...
Sing the Truth: The Music of Nina Simone reviewPerthNow
Four voices channel jazz divaThe Australian
Remembering one of the musical greatsWA today

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Huffington Post (blog)

Raoul Abdul, Rodney Leonard and a Great House of New York, in Harlem!
Huffington Post (blog)
If Rodney is an extraordinary artist, deploying whatever he can to make his rooms ever greater works of art, then Nina Simone is Rodney's principal muse. ...


Sing the Truth: The Music of Nina Simone review
PerthNow
ON a clear, still, balmy Autumn eve, Nina Simone fans and jazz aficionados gathered under the full moon to soak up the songs of the High Priestess of Soul. ...
Four voices channel jazz divaThe Australian
Remembering one of the musical greatsWA today

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Remembering one of the musical greats
WA today
"My mother – Nina Simone! Yes!" she called out. "There are a lot of emotions that I feel when I do her songs and when I hear other people do her songs. ...


New York Times

Under a Strange, Soulful Spell
New York Times
In 1960, one year after Nina Simone's first album, “Little Girl Blue,” was released, the poet Langston Hughes struggled to put the appeal ...
A tribute to Nina Simone in NyackInside Rockland (blog)

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Krystle Warren
The Guardian
It vividly recalls Nina Simone in its depth and smokiness, as well as John Martyn and Buckley in terms of virtuosic variety. Warren's songs also dash ...


Currently Resides: Middlebury, CT
FOX CT
If a 17-year-old girl can't knock 'em dead with Nina Simone, then what should she sing? Cowell is probably looking for Miley Cyrus and Colbie Caillat covers ...

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Morning News Magazine

Book Review of "Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone," by ...
Washington Post
If you believe a singer's job is to sound pretty, you will have no use for Nina Simone (1933-2003). And, as this even-handed biography makes clear, ...
Nina Simone, Diva Out of CarolinaNew York Times
Distant portrait of iconic singer, activist SimoneWinnipeg Free Press
The High Priestess of SoulMorning News Magazine

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Afro American

Nina Simone's Complexities, Beauty Captured in Striking Tome
Afro American
Excerpt from Princess Noire- The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone (February 17, 2010) – Nina Simone appeared most stately, if not regal, when her mane was ...
Book review: Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone by Nadine CohodasStraight.com

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Taking Black History out of the peanut gallery [Opinion]
89.3 KPCC
I would have loved to learn earlier that legendary black soul singer Nina Simone wasn't just an amazing voice, but was also someone who grappled with ...

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On American Idol, Middlebury's Katie Stevens Voted Through to Next Round
Voices
"Feeling Good" was written for a 1965 musical and has since been covered by numerous artists, including Nina Simone and Michael Bublé. ...


Underneath Your Spell | Tina Harrod
Australian Stage Online
Nina Simone fans recognise several songs, including Break down and let it all out and I loves you Porgy. She sings Nina Simone wonderfully, but something ...


Morning News Magazine

Nina Simone, Diva Out of Carolina
New York Times
“I will never be your clown,” Nina Simone shouted at a restless nightclub audience in Cannes in 1977. The mostly French-speaking crowd ...
The High Priestess of SoulMorning News Magazine

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Spinner

SXSW 2010: The Mynabirds
Spinner
In high school I found Carole King and Nina Simone. I think ever since then I've had a real appreciation for people with voices the first time you hear them ...


Free Stuff To Do!
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Jazz singer Nina Simone (d. 2003) gave us unforgettable renditions of “I Put a Spell ...


Brother proud to lead tribute to Nina Simone in Nyack
The Journal News | LoHud.com
It wasn't unusual for soul singer and civil-rights activist Nina Simone to call her youngest brother, Sam Waymon, to chat at 3 am, but on one autumn night ...
Simone Immortalised With StatueContactmusic.com
Shuler delivers birthday tribute to Nina Simone on US House floorMountain Xpress (blog)

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Irish Times

Depp strums along with McGowan
Irish Times
I Put A Spell On You , a cover of the Screamin' Jay Hawkins classic, previously covered by the likes of Nina Simone and Tom Waits, was chosen by MacGowan as ...

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CD reviews: Discs that are sure to spice up your playlist
Aspen Times
Nina Simone” recalls hearing the singer for the first time while in Mexico. The song ends with the plaintive observation, “The darkest of ravens was Nina ...

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Review: 'Princess Noir' chronicles Nina Simone's rise in the jazz world and ...
San Jose Mercury News
In 1960, one year after Nina Simone's first album, "Little Girl Blue," was released, poet Langston Hughes struggled to put the appeal of ...
Brother proud to lead tribute to Nina Simone in NyackThe Journal News | LoHud.com
Georgia State holds Nina Simone tribute tonightGSU Signal
Simone Immortalised With StatueContactmusic.com
Mountain Xpress (blog)
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Pomperaug student's choice of song questioned on 'Idol'
Waterbury Republican American
... from the show's judges, who felt her song choice — “Feeling Good” as covered by Michael Bublé and played by Nina Simone — wasn't right for her age. ...

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Lime Wire (blog)

Mary J. Blige To Play Nina Simone In Biopic
Lime Wire (blog)
Another incredible artist is set to play a role that is near and dear to her heart, as the queen of hip hop/soul, Mary J. Blige will portray Ms. Nina Simone ...


Georgia State holds Nina Simone tribute tonight
GSU Signal
Nina Simone is a famous jazz singer and Civil Rights Activist, and will be honoroed on the 23rd at 7 pm at the Rialto as part of Black ...
Simone Immortalised With StatueContactmusic.com
Shuler delivers birthday tribute to Nina Simone on US House floorMountain Xpress (blog)

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Idol hopeful Katie Stevens 'Feeling Good,' but judges tough on her
Waterbury Republican American
... from the show's judges, who felt her song choice -- “Feeling Good,” previously covered by Michael Bublé and Nina Simone -- wasn't right for her age. ...

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Song Choice Trips First Night 'Idol' Singers
Hartford Courant (blog)
Stevens sang what has become an "Idol" staple over the past few seasons -- "Feeling Good" a standard from Nina Simone that was more recently a single for ...

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Katie Stevens is 'Feelin' Good,' but maybe too old?
Newsday (subscription)
Katie Stevens takes on “Feelin' Good,” which Ryan Seacrest attributes to Michael Buble instead of Nina Simone. She does a decent job, but it's so old that ...

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Shuler delivers birthday tribute to Nina Simone on US House floor
Mountain Xpress (blog)
C.) offered a tribute on the House floor Monday to the High Priestess of Soul, the late American jazz singer Nina Simone on what would have been her 77th ...

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Mary J. Blige on the Power of “Precious” and Her Nina Simone Biopic
Rolling Stone
“Playing a character like Nina Simone is playing myself,” she explains, “because Nina Simone was a manic depressive, drug addict, alcoholic, cursing wild ...


Shuler offers birthday tribute to jazz legend Nina Simone
The Hill
C.) offered a tribute on the House floor Monday to the High Priestess of Soul, the late American jazz singer Nina Simone on what would have been her 77th ...


Erykah Badu 'Window Seat' -- New Song
AOL Radio Blog (blog)
With prominent percussion and a soulful keyboard melody, the mid-tempo tune gives off as much energy as Nina Simone, as Badu sings about taking the chance ...


Singer Nina Simone honored today in NC hometown
Spartanburg Herald Journal
Tryon, NC, birthplace of Nina Simone, will unveil a statue of the legendary singer at 3 pm today at 54 S. Trade St. A concert will follow ...


Nina Simone: The Soloist-Life of the Troubled "High Priestess of Soul" Serves ...
All About Jazz
A Nina Simone song is recognizable from its opening notes. First comes the piano, keys striking at the ineffable point where classical music meets jazz, ...


Recording Artist Etcetera to Receive 2010 Young, Gifted & Black ...
Hip Hop Press (press release)
... and the Nina Simone Foundation to recognize the artistic contributions of the famed songstress with two YGB Entrepreneurial Awards given in her honor. ...

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Brisbane Times

To thrill a mockingbird
Brisbane Times
The inclusion of June Carter Cash's Ring Of Fire may be a safe option but there's little that's predictable or safe about songs such as Nina Simone's Sugar ...


A Playlist in Honor of Black History Month
SBIndependent
No one can quite cover this classic song as well as Nina Simone can. “Slave Driver” blends the carefree Caribbean beats of Reggae with Marley's socially ...


New York Times (blog)

The Arts, From A to Z, at Hong Kong Festival
New York Times (blog)
... BBC World Music Award); and a tribute to the American jazz legend Nina Simone, featuring Dianne Reeves, Patti Austin and Simone's daughter, Lizz Wright.

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We Remember Wilby Fletcher, Jr. "A Celebration of the Life & Music of Wilby Jr."
All About Jazz
His career spanned 40 years, pairing him in performance with such legends as Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, McCoy Tyner, ...

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