FOREVER YOUNG GIFTED & BLACK: SONGS OF FREEDOM

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Label
RCA
Release Date
January 17, 2006
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      SIMONE, NINA
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 17, 2006
    • UPC
      828767441320
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      RCA74413.2
    • LABEL
      RCA
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. To Be Young, Gifted and Black (2005 Remix)

      Composer: Nina Simone

      Performer: Nina Simone, Ralph H. Fields, Eileen Gilbert, Jerome Graff, Milt Grayson, Noah Hopkins, Maeretha Stewart, Barbara Webb, Joe Shepley, Jimmy Nottingham, Harold Johnson, Wilbur Bascomb, Jimmy Cleveland, Richard Harris, Seldon Powell, George Coleman, Norris Turney, Haywood Henry, Eric J. Gale, Everett Barksdale, Jerry Jemmott, Richard Tee, Bernard Purdie, Gordon Powell, Montego Joe, George Devens

    2. Backlash Blues

      Composer: Nina Simone

      Performer: Nina Simone, Rudy Stevenson, Sam Waymon, Gene Taylor, Buck Clarke

    3. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free

      Composer: William Taylor

      Performer: Nina Simone, Ernie Royal, Marky Markowitz, Seldon Powell, Mel Tax, Eric J. Gale, Rudy Stevenson, Gene Taylor, Ernie Hayes, Bernard Purdie

      Conductor: Sammy Lowe

    4. Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)

      Composer: Gene Taylor

      Performer: Nina Simone, Rudy Stevenson, Gene Taylor, Sam Waymon

    5. Mississippi Goddam

      Composer: Nina Simone

      Performer: Nina Simone, Rudy Stevenson, Sam Waymon, Gene Taylor, Buck Clarke

    6. Revolution, Parts I and II

      Composer: Weldon Irvine, Nina Simone

      Performer: Ernest Calabria, Doris Willingham, Virdia Crawford, Eric J. Gale, Al Schackman, Stuart Scharf, Gene Perla, Weldon Irvine, Bernard Purdie, Don Alias

    7. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) (alternate version)

      Composer: Pete Seeger

      Performer: Nina Simone, Doris Willingham, Virdia Crawford

    8. Hair: Ain't Got No - I Got Life (alternate version)

      Composer: Galt Macdermot

      Performer: Nina Simone, Joe Shepley, Harold Johnson, Wilbur Bascomb, Garnett Brown, Haywood Henry, Eric J. Gale, Henry Young, Carl Lynch, Ernie Hayes, Paul Griffin, Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Purdie

      Conductor: Horace Ott

    9. Westwind

      Composer: William "Salty Bill" Salter, Caiphus Semenya

      Performer: Nina Simone, Juma Santos, Don Alias

    10. The Times They Are a-Changin'

      Composer: Bob Dylan

      Performer: Nina Simone

    11. To Be Young, Gifted and Black

      Composer: Nina Simone

      Ensemble: The Swordsmen

      Performer: Nina Simone, Emile Latimer, Tom Smith, Weldon Irvine, Don Alias, Juma Santos


This album is a stunning collection by a fearless innovator whose voice and vision, and valor and vulnerability, set a modern standard for unflinching honesty and integrity. Also includes liner notes by Alicia Keys.