Nina Simone - At The Village Gate

Deluxe presentation with comprehensive 20-page booklet + 7 bonus tracks. Includes new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz writer Brian Morton and by Paris' prestigious Jazz Magazine.

The breath-taking originality of the second half of the show is what makes this album great. Opening with Oscar Brown, Jr.'s Brown Baby and then Michael Olatunji's Zungo and delivering a long version of another traditional song Children, Go Where I Send You, Simone makes a profound stand on the black musical tradition, drawing on her deep reading in Frantz Fanon's autotheory and L�opold Senghor's ideas on n�gritude to create a body of work that transcends jazz styles and critical pigeonholes. She was unique, but only because she drew on multitudes. - Penguin Guide To Jazz