From 1966, burning, mostly free-form, a quintet featuring the missus Barbara Donald’s brilliant trumpet-playing, and an up-and-coming John Hicks.

Acoustic Sounds LP.

The George Harrison… Just Like A Woman detourned… O-o-h Child, Mr Bojangles… even an uptempo, conga-driven My Way.

Her RCA debut from 1967, with Eric Gale and Bernard Purdie amongst others, slow-burning through a killer set-list.

Her stunning recording debut in 1959, when she was in her mid-twenties, aspiring to be a classical pianist, and from the get-go — as per Daphne A. Brooks’ sleeve-notes — ‘an astonishingly daring, dazzlingly confident, endlessly adventurous artist with a deep well of formidable instrumentality up her sleeve as well as a wide and robust, rich and varied knowledge of jazz, blues, American songbook, folk and spiritual standards and aesthetics.’
Several signature tunes here already, too.

A previously unreleased recording made at the Newport Jazz Festival in July,1966.

The Amazing Nina Simone, Nina Simone At Town Hall, Nina At Newport, Forbidden Fruit, Nina At The Village Gate, Nina Simone Sings Ellington, Nina Simone At Carnegie Hall, Folksy Nina.
All eight original LPs, plus twenty-nine bonus tracks.

Two World Pacifics from 1959, The Swingers! and A Gasser! (featuring Annie Ross on her own). Straight songs and hip new renditions of great stuff like Little Niles, Four, Airegin, Now’s The Time.

A song-cycle life of Aisha, youngest wife of the prophet Mohammed, co-written by the Armenian-German guitarist and Julia Hulsmann, performed together with her trio and Serbian singer Yelena Kuljic.