PMR-018 "A Very Rare Evening" © 1979
Nina Simone - Vocals and piano
Weldon Irvine - Organ
Al Schackman -
Guitar
Gene Perla - Bass
Don
Alias - Drums
Emedin Rivera - Congas &
Percussion
Gina Rothchild, Doris Willingham - Vocals
1. In the Morning (Barry Gibb) 3:42
2. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) (Music by
Pete Seeger) 4:30
3. To Love Somebody (Barry
and Robin Gibb) 2:34
4. Ain't Got No/I Got Life (James Rado, Jerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot)
5:16
5. The Other Woman (Jesse Mae Robinson)
5:56
6. I Think It's Going To Rain Today (Randy Newman) 4:37
7, Save Me (Curits Ousley, Aretha Franklin and Carolyn Franklin)
3:10
8. Revolution (Weldon Irvine and Nina
Simone) 6:10
Recorded on April 3, 1969 at a TV show in Munich, Germany
Re-Mix Engineer: Tim White
Produced by Gene Perla
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It's her first LP in years but taped back in 1969 in Europe with a confident, impressive organ and rhythm section backup band. Simone is an acquired taste. But for those who appreciate her singing these eight tracks may prove welcome.
Best Cuts: "Save Me"To Love Sombody"
Billboard ~ December 15, 1979 |
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 ~ December 15, 1979 |
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 chocolate 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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