Album
Broadway-Blues-Ballads
1964Jazz · Music · Vocal · Standards · Vocal Jazz
A lighter, more playful side to the legend.
Tracks
- 12:45
- 23:07
- 32:18
- 42:43
- 52:51
- 64:15
- 72:56
- 82:34
- 92:37
- 102:59
- 112:03
- 123:04
- 132:43
About this album
Where Nina Simone’s previous albums were fiercely and unapologetically political, Broadway-Blues-Ballads is distinctly lighter and more playful; it's heavily weighted in the Broadway and ballads categories. Inspired covers are bountiful—see Cole Porter’s “The Laziest Gal in Town” and Rodgers & Hammerstein's “Something Wonderful”—while the vibe is mellowed by a handful of repertoire standards (the deeply felt “The Last Rose of Summer” and the catchy call-and-response “See-Line Woman”), plus “How Can I?”, with its gently Parisian cha-cha beat.