Nina Siimone has been my favorite singer since I first heard her when I was 22. I'm 76. I had every album, including albums recorded in Europe. I finally got to hear her in concert at Symphony Hall in Boston in the mid-1980s during the Boston Jazz Festival. I brought a coworker with me, a young woman who'd never heard of her. I just wanted to introduce her to someone who didn't know that someone as thrilling as Simone existed. The audience gave her a five-minute standing ovation when she came out on the stage. I swear I have never been so thrilled. You know how you're clapping so hard for so long, you don't know if you can keep going and contain your excitement and appreciation. I felt like I could fly apart. The concert was amazing. The audience loved her so much that they couldn't stop clapping and cheering and, finally, she had to walk off the stage. I remember where I was when I read that she died. I recommend her all the time. When I tell people about her, there's always some idiot who says to me, "She couldn't sing." People are idiots.
Thank you, my father an orchestral musician, like some in the1940s to subsidised poor wages played jazz in restaurants and clubs. I remember as a child he loved Nat King Cole and Nina Simone, at 72yrs I understand why, this artist was so loved.
I love the channel and subjects, but this one could have used some more editing. The timeliness toward the end became jumbled and confusing, and later it was mentioned that she "left the Netherlands for Amsterdam " but Amsterdam us the capital of the Netherlands. Otherwise, great work and great stories!
I think most of this video was made by AI. The script could have been scraped together from freely available sites, and the VO makes weird mistakes, like sometimes mispronouncing her last name.
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Nina Siimone has been my favorite singer since I first heard her when I was 22. I'm 76. I had every album, including albums recorded in Europe. I finally got to hear her in concert at Symphony Hall in Boston in the mid-1980s during the Boston Jazz Festival. I brought a coworker with me, a young woman who'd never heard of her. I just wanted to introduce her to someone who didn't know that someone as thrilling as Simone existed. The audience gave her a five-minute standing ovation when she came out on the stage. I swear I have never been so thrilled. You know how you're clapping so hard for so long, you don't know if you can keep going and contain your excitement and appreciation. I felt like I could fly apart. The concert was amazing. The audience loved her so much that they couldn't stop clapping and cheering and, finally, she had to walk off the stage. I remember where I was when I read that she died. I recommend her all the time. When I tell people about her, there's always some idiot who says to me, "She couldn't sing." People are idiots.
Well done! Been waiting for this one
Cool.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
@@onetrackjazz No Problem
Thank you, my father an orchestral musician, like some in the1940s to subsidised poor wages played jazz in restaurants and clubs. I remember as a child he loved Nat King Cole and Nina Simone, at 72yrs I understand why, this artist was so loved.
"Wild is the Wind," covered by Nina Simone: music by Dimitri Tiomkin, lyrics by Ned Washington, then a tribute by David Bowie.
Please keep making these videos
Nina Simone deserved more good than she ever got.
Can we get an episode of Miriam Makeba
I love the channel and subjects, but this one could have used some more editing. The timeliness toward the end became jumbled and confusing, and later it was mentioned that she "left the Netherlands for Amsterdam " but Amsterdam us the capital of the Netherlands.
Otherwise, great work and great stories!
I think most of this video was made by AI. The script could have been scraped together from freely available sites, and the VO makes weird mistakes, like sometimes mispronouncing her last name.
I like these programs and channels but this announcer pronounces the same words differently thoughout the videos.