Nina Simone – At the Village Gate – Vinyl LP

Coloured Vinyl, High Quality, Bonus Track(S), Reissue

At The Village Gate is an album by Nina Simone, released in 2021.

Nina Simone At The Village Gate’ pressed on limited edition 180g blue virgin vinyl + 2 bonus tracks. Contains 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 auto-theory and Léopold Senghor’s ideas on négritude to create a body of work that transcends jazz styles and critical pigeonholes. She was unique, but only because she drew on multitudes.” Brian Morton

1. Just In Time
2. He Was Good To Me
3. House of the Rising Sun
4. Bye Bye Blackbird
5. Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
6. Brown Baby
7. Zungo
8. If He Changed My Name
9. Children Go Where I Send You
10. Summertime [Part 1 & 2]