Music / jazz

Pastel blues


Reviews (2)


Pitchfork

d. 30. July 2016

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Carvell Wallace

d. 30. July 2016

"She may be the only artist to find the link between Sam Cooke and Edith Piaf, between Bertolt Brecht and Malcolm X. Her thorough and strict classical training (she was in the truest and least sensational sense a diva) allowed her to treat the music of black Americans-soul, jazz, blues, roots and folk-with a level of deference typically reserved for Rachmaninov".


AllMusic

20??

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Ritche Unterberger

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"This is one of Nina Simone's more subdued mid-'60s LPs, putting the emphasis on her piano rather than band arrangements ... By far the most impressive track is her frantic ten-minute rendition of the traditional "Sinnerman," an explosive tour de force that dwarfs everything else on the album".