Nina Simone's Triple Play
@article{Brooks2011NinaST, title={Nina Simone's Triple Play}, author={Daphne A. Brooks}, journal={Callaloo}, year={2011}, volume={34}, pages={176 - 197} }
Listen to the opening notes of Nina Simone’s remarkable 1957 debut album Little Girl Blue and one hears a performer asserting her intentions, throwing down the glove: the exuberant “motor running-running” (Dobie 232) trademark vocals, the playfully virtuosic dance of a pianist’s velocity that turns the tempo of a Duke Ellington classic inside out and breaks open the melody to mine the ironically pulsating energy, the propulsive beat of non-stop “indigo” heartbreak. As jazz critic Scott Yanow…
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