| 词条 | Gifted & Black |
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| name = Gifted & Black | type = studio | artist = Nina Simone | cover = | alt = | released = 1970 | recorded = uncertain | venue = | studio = RPM Studios, Los Angeles[1] | genre = Vocal jazz, jazz, blues, soul and funk | length = {{duration|m=33|s=32}}{{OR|date=October 2018}} | label = Canyon Records | producer = Stroud Productions and Enterprises, Inc.[1] | prev_title = A Very Rare Evening | prev_year = 1969 | next_title = The Best of Nina Simone | next_year = 1970 }} Gifted & Black is the twentieth studio album by jazz singer, pianist and songwriter Nina Simone. It was released on August 25,{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}} 1970, by Canyon Records (Hollywood). BackgroundRoger Nupie, in a personal communication with The Nina Simone Database, who suggest these may be Simone's earliest existing recordings and may have been "made in Philadelphia 1955(?)", states that there is "no info" about the date, location or musicians. He goes on to state that the album was "originally not intended for release" and that Andrew Stroud, Simone's manager, added strings arranged by Monk Higgins to eight tracks and released them as "Gifted and Black" in 1970.[2] Another source indicates that the album was possibly recorded in 1967[3] at RPM Studios, Los Angeles.[1]Critical ReceptionRolling Stone said in a contemporary review: "It's not that this album, recorded around 1967 (?), is misrepresentative of what Nina is currently up to, and does a disservice to an exceptional artist's career. It's not that the strings, which are dubbed over her piano trio are in poor, nay, bad taste. It's not that it sounds as though the recording mikes were placed down the hall from the studio, in the toilet, perhaps. It's not that "The Thrill is Gone" is absolutely the most embarrassing musical miscarriage I've ever heard. No, it's not any of these at all. It's just that this album is pisspoor."[3] However, although Richard Mortifoglio for AllMusic called the sound "decidedly lo-fi", he also considered it "something of a lost cabaret masterpiece ... as if she was channeling the great cabaret artist Mabel Mercer, reminding us that apart from her deserved reputation as a socially significant African-American artist, Nina Simone was also an outstanding interpreter of the Great American Songbook."[4]Tracklist{{Track listing| title1 = Black Is The Color | writer1 = Nina Simone | length1 = 3:06 | title2 = Since My Love Is Gone | writer2 = Herbert Wasserman, Jack Aaron | length2 = 3:57 | title3 = Blue Prelude | writer3 = Gordon Jenkins, Joe Bishop | length3 = 4:36 | title4 = Spring Is Here | writer4 = Rodgers & Hart | length4 = 4:19 | title5 = Porgy | writer5 = DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin | length5 = 3:59 | title6 = Remind Me | writer6 = Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern | length6 = 3:41 | title7 = Near To You | writer7 = H. King - C. Sigman | length7 = 4:22 | title8 = The Thrill Is Gone | writer8 = Lew Brown, Ray Henderson | length8 = 5:32 }} Credit
Reference1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Nina-Simone-Gifted-Black/release/675274|website=discogs.com|title=Nina Simone – Gifted & Black|accessdate=October 25, 2018}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://boscarol.com/ninasimone/pages/php/show_session.php?id=giftedandblack|website=boscarol.com|title=The Nina Simone Database - 1955 Philadelphia (US-PA)|accessdate=October 25, 2018}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/gifted-black-250407/|website=rollingstone.com|title=Gifted & Black|date=August 6, 1970|accessdate=October 25, 2018}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-berkeley-gifted-black-mw0000820868|website=allmusic.com|title=Nina Simone Live at Berkeley/Gifted & Black|author=Richard Mortifoglio|accessdate=October 25, 2018}} 1 : Nina Simone albums |
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