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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free: Nina Simone

12 Friday Jun 2020

Posted by Jack Shalom in Life, Performance, Writing

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blues, I Wish I Knew, jazz, Montreux, music, Nina SImone, performance, piano, song

Words fail.

Montreux 1976

Thanks to YouTuber  TransatlanticMoments

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Backlash Blues: Langston Hughes and Nina Simone

25 Thursday Aug 2016

Posted by Jack Shalom in Life, Music, Performance, Writing

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Backlash Blues, Langston Hughes, music, Nina SImone, performance, poem, poetry, song, songwriting

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A Langston Hughes poem set to music and performed by Nina Simone.

Thanks to YouTuber rANKo TINTORetto

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Ne Me Quitte Pas

17 Tuesday Nov 2015

Posted by Jack Shalom in Life, Music, Performance, Writing

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art, France, French, Jacques Brel, music, Nina SImone, performance, song, songwriting

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Nina Simone, in her prime, 1971.

Gut-wrenching.

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