PMR-018 "A
Very Rare Evening" © 1979
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| In The Morning |
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| Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) |
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| To Love Somebody |
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| Ain't Got No/I Got Life |
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| The Other Woman |
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| I Think It's Going to Rain Today |
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| Save Me |
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| Revolution |
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Anything by this lady of song is welcome, especially when she's
in front of an adoring audience, as she is in these decade-old,
never-released sides. Simone covers all bases from Barry Gibb's
"In The Morning," to Pete Seeger's adaptation from the
Book of Ecclesiastes, "Turn! Turn! Turn!" She gives special
meaning to such tunes as the poignant "The Other Woman,"
the gospel inflected "Save Me," and "I Think It's
Going To Rain Today." But the highlight is her own tune, composed
with keyboardist Weldon Irvine, Revolution."
Cash Box |
Simone infuses pop material with a compelling power and depth
of emotion. The arrangements are rhythmically adventurous.
William H. Lieberson, The Swinger |
A 12-year-old date that you can really call at long last deserved.
It shows one of those shows where everything goes down so right
that you almost hate for it to come to an end.
Midwest Record Recap |
| Consider Nina Simone, and be heartened. Nina Simone is, in
a pop scene of pitiful plagiartists and pseudo-intellectual bandwagoners,
a great original. Her voice is hot choclate or angostura bitters,
as full of contrasts as her songs, which are declamatory sermons
driving straight into the dilemmas of our age, or quiet personal
cries of joy and lament about the business of living. She is an
intensely dramatic singer and painist, able to subdue a hall instantly;
a detached and inviolate kind of artist.
Derek Jewell |
Then there's the crème de la Simone crème: A
Very Rare Evening, recorded in Europe in April 1969...and the
Hair medley “Ain't Got No/I Got Life" as exquisitely performed
on Rare Evening.
Jazz Times, September 2005 |
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