Nina Simone – Nina Simone: Montreux Years

NINA SIMONEs story from the late sixties to the nineties can be told through her legendary performances in Montreux. Taking to the Montreux stage for the first time on 16 June 1968 for the festivals second edition, Simone built a lasting relationship with Montreux Jazz Festival and its Creator and Founder Claude Nobs, which uniqueness, trust and electricity can be clearly felt on the recordings. Simones multi-faceted and radical story is laid bare on NINA SIMONE: THE MONTREUX YEARS. From Ninas glorious

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 Simones hauntingly beautiful performance of Ne Me Quitte Pas. A spinetingling version of Janis Ians searing and potent Stars, which Simone covered for the very first time during her 1976 Montreux performance, sits alongside her bold and electrifying re

– Disc 1 –
1Someone to Watch Over Me
2Backlash Blues
3I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
4See-Line Woman
– Disc 2 –
1Little Girl Blue
2Don’t Smoke in Bed
3Stars
4What a Little Moonlight Can Do
– Disc 3 –
1African Mailman
2Just in Time
3Four Women
4No Woman No Cry
– Disc 4 –
1Liberian Calypso
2Ne Me Quitte Pas
3Montreux Blues
4My Baby Just Care