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| Baltimore |
| Nina Simone |
első megjelenés éve: 1978
38 perc |
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| (2007)
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| 3.324 Ft
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| 1. | Baltimore
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| 2. | Everything Must Change
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| 3. | The Family
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| 4. | My Father
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| 5. | Music for Lovers
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| 6. | Rich Girl
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| 7. | That's All I Want
From You
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| 8. | Forget
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| 9. | Balm in Gilead
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| 10. | If You Pray Right
Heaven Belongs to You Traditional
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Jazz / Vocal; Standards; Vocal Jazz
Recorded: Jan 1978, Sudio Katy, Brussels, Belgium
Nina Simone - vocals, arranger, keyboards
David Matthews - arranger, piano
Max Ellen - violin
Barry Finclair - violin
Harry Glickman - violin
Charles Libove - violin
Harry Lookofsky - violin
Marvin Morgenstern - violin
David Nadien - violin
Herbert Sorkin - violin
Richard Sortomme - violin
Lamar Alsop - viola
Alfred Brown - viola
Emanuel Vardi - viola
Jonathan Abramowitz - cello
Charles McCracken - cello
Alan Shulman - cello
Al Schackman - piano
Jerry Friedman - guitar
Eric Gale - guitar
John Beal - acoustic bass
Charles Israels - acoustic bass
Homer Mensch - acoustic bass
Gary King - electric bass
Will Lee - electric bass
Jim Madison - drums
Andy Newmark - drums
Al Schackman - tambourine
Nicky Marrero - percussion
Joshie Armstead, Debbie McDuffie, Albertine Robinson, Maeretha Stewart, Babi Floyd, Frank Floyd, Milt Grayson, Ray Simpson - background vocals
After an uncharacteristic (for her) four-year hiatus from recording, Nina Simone returned to the fringes of the pop world with Baltimore, the only album she recorded for the CTI label. While it bears some of the musical stylings of the period -- light reggae inflections that hint of Steely Dan's "Haitian Divorce" -- the vocals are unmistakably Simone's. Like many of her albums, the content is wildly uneven; Simone simply covers too much ground and there's too little attention paid to how songs flow together. As a result, a robust torch piano ballad like "Music for Lovers" is followed immediately by one of Simone's more awkward moments, an attempt to keep up with a jaunty rhythm track on a cover of Hall & Oates' "Rich Girl." Still, one must give her credit for always being provocative in her cover song choices, as she clearly scores on the Randy Newman-penned title track and a dramatic reading of Judy Collins' "My Father." Her voice throughout is in fine form, even when she phones it in on the album-closing traditional gospel tunes, but arranger David Matthews is a mismatch for her: He blows the arrangements with excessive string overlays and needlessly blaring background vocals. Simone herself all but disavowed the album shortly after its release, testament to her eternally contrarian, iconic nature. Despite her misgivings, though, Baltimore is an occasionally spellbinding if erratic album, a challenging and worthwhile listen for people ready to dip into the lesser-known entries in Nina Simone's vast catalog.
---Joseph McCombs, allmusic
Includes liner notes by David Nathan & Creed Taylor |
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