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Nina Simone - Nina Simone's Finest Hour (2000/2015) [Official Digital Download 24 bit/192kHz]

Posted By: HDV

Date: 8 Sep 2024 15:22:03

Nina Simone - Nina Simone's Finest Hour (2000/2015) [Official Digital Download 24 bit/192kHz]

Verve's "Finest Hour" collection of Nina Simone's work compiles 60 minutes of career highlights, including 'Wild Is the Wind', 'I Put a Spell on You', 'Four Women', 'I Loves You, Porgy', and 'My Baby Just Cares for Me'. Though it's by no means a definitive compilation of Simone's music, it does provide a welcome overview of her Verve years.

Nina Simone communicates with a unique force on this Finest Hour collection, a welling, riveting power that's beyond the range of other singers. It's there whether the song is romantic or political, whimsical or sentimental, and these recordings from the 1960s demonstrate the range of material that she could make her own, from Gershwin to Jacques Brel, from Screamin' Jay Hawkins to Nat Adderley. With her own civil rights era anthems like 'Mississippi Goddam' and the Brecht-Weill 'Pirate Jenny,' Simone commands our attention with a profoundly brooding, searing rage, while there's potent sensuality in her 'Wild Is the Wind' and Willard Robison's 'Don't Smoke in Bed.' Whether she's accompanying herself with her spare piano or defying studio orchestras with the intensity of her performance, Simone is a special singer, her art consisting in stripping away the decorative artifice of a song to reveal a molten core beneath.

Tracklist:

01 - Love Me Or Leave Me
02 - Wild Is The Wind (Live In New York 1964)
03 - I Put A Spell On You
04 - Work Song
05 - Don't Explain
06 - The Other Woman (Live In New York 1964)
07 - Mississippi Goddam (Live In New York 1964)
08 - Four Women
09 - Pirate Jenny (Live In New York 1964)
10 - I Loves You, Porgy (Live In New York 1964)
11 - This Year's Kisses
12 - Little Girl Blue
13 - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
14 - Ne Me Quitte Pas
15 - Don't Smoke In Bed (Live In New York 1964)

Dynamic Range Report

Analyzed: Nina Simone / Nina Simone's Finest Hour
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 -0.80 dB -13.18 dB 4:07 01-Love Me Or Leave Me
DR11 -0.69 dB -16.06 dB 7:00 02-Wild Is The Wind (Live In New York/1964)
DR11 -0.24 dB -14.48 dB 2:36 03-I Put A Spell On You
DR10 -0.16 dB -13.64 dB 3:07 04-Work Song
DR12 -1.10 dB -16.99 dB 4:22 05-Don't Explain
DR11 0.00 dB -14.81 dB 3:06 06-The Other Woman (Live In New York/1964)
DR11 0.00 dB -14.05 dB 4:56 07-Mississippi Goddam (Live In New York/1964)
DR12 0.00 dB -15.21 dB 4:27 08-Four Women
DR12 0.00 dB -16.61 dB 6:41 09-Pirate Jenny (Live In New York/1964)
DR12 0.00 dB -16.29 dB 2:33 10-I Loves You, Porgy (Live In New York/1964)
DR10 -0.53 dB -14.03 dB 3:01 11-This Year's Kisses
DR10 -2.38 dB -16.05 dB 4:20 12-Little Girl Blue
DR11 0.00 dB -14.48 dB 2:46 13-Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
DR10 0.00 dB -14.01 dB 3:38 14-Ne Me Quitte Pas
DR11 -0.69 dB -16.29 dB 5:31 15-Don't Smoke In Bed (Live In New York/1964)
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Number of tracks: 15
Official DR value: DR11

Samplerate: 192000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 5857 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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