Nina Simone: Forbidden Fruit (180g 2LP-Set from Pure Pleasure, Mint-)

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Nina Simone Forbidden Fruit on Limited Edition 180g Import 2LP

180g 2LP-Set from Pure Pleasure featuring the Original Album plus Previously Unreleased Tracks from the Colpix Vaults & Material from Her Last Album for the Label!

Remastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios!

To call Nina Simone a jazz singer is to neglect the depth and range of her artistry. A classical pianist, folk singer, protest singer, and songwriter, her arrangements are harmonically rich, varied, and rhythmically experimental, while her voice can go from lounge singer-smooth to raw and exposed in the space of a verse.

The 1961 Colpix album Forbidden Fruit was The High Priestess of Soul's second for the label and it includes a rendition of Oscar Brown's "Rags and Old Iron" as well as a tango version of "Just Say I Love Him" among others. The release was produced by Cal Lampley and features accompaniment by Al Schackman (guitar), Bob Hamilton (drums) and Chris White (bass). The 10-tracks found on Sides 1 and 2 here including the aforementioned songs comprise that masterful album.

While no session information exists to confirm this, Schackman, Hamilton, and White were likely accompanying Nina when she recorded the eleven songs that comprise Sides 3 and 4, seven of which are from the small archive of previously unreleased tracks left in the Colpix vaults, and four of which were included on Nina's final release for the label, 1963's Nina Simone with Strings.

Vinyl: MINT-
Jacket: MINT-


LP 1
1.  Rags and Old Iron
2.  No Good Man
3.  Gin House Blues
4.  I'll Look Around
5.  I Love to Love
6.  Work Song
7.  Where Can I Go Without You
8.  Just Say I Love Him
9.  Memphis In June
10. Forbidden Fruit

LP 2
1.  Porgy I Is Your Woman Now
2.  Baubles, Bangles and Beads
3.  Gimme A Pigfoot
4.  Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye
5.  Spring Is Here
6.  Lonesome Valley
7.  Golden Earrings
8.  My Ship
9. 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do
10. Try A Little Tenderness
11. Od Yesh Homa


Only played once Side one & two
Side three & four not played



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