This reissue of Nina Simone’s ‘Forbidden Fruit’ includes a bonus album, ‘Nina Simone sings Ellington’ plus 2 bonus tracks. On the 1960/1 recording Nina sings and plays piano, accompanied by Al Shackman, guitar Chris White, bass and Bobby Hamilton, drums.
The bonus album was recorded in 1961 with an orchestra conducted and arranged by Ralph Burns. The two bonus tracks are from 1957 with Jimmy Bond on bass and Albert “Tootie” Heath on drums. The 20-page booklet contains complete information with specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz’s writer Brian Morton and by France’s prestigious Jazz Magazine. “With Forbidden Fruit, Simone became one of the defining voices of the 1960s.” Penguin Guide to Jazz
LP + 3 Bonus Tracks:
Rags And Old Iron / No Good Man / Gin House Blues / I’ll Look Around / I Love To Love / I Loves You Porgy (bonus track) / Work Song / Where Can I Go Without You / Just Say I Love Him / Memphis In June / Forbidden Fruit / Love Me Or Leave Me (bonus track) / My Baby Just Cares For Me (bonus track)
Released 22/01/21