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Reissue of Nina’s 1961 live set. 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 Olatunjis 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 Fanons auto-theory and Leopold Senghors ideas on negritude 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.
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