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Nina Simone - Pastel Blues (1965/2013) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/192kHz]

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Date: 11 Jul 2024 16:23:42

Nina Simone - Pastel Blues (1965/2013) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/192kHz]

"Pastel Blues" is Nina Simone’s 1965 seminal masterwork. The diversified outing is a smooth blend of blues, jazz, soul and folk. The renowned vocalist dazzles on the piano and is joined by Al Schackman (guitar, harmonica), Rudy Stevenson (guitar, flute), Lisle Atkinson (bass) and Bobby Hamilton (drums). It reached the Top Ten on Billboard’s Top R&B albums and includes the standouts, “Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out”, “Trouble In Mind” and “Strange Fruit”.

If this is blues, it's blues in the Billie Holiday sense, not the Muddy Waters one. This is one of Nina Simone's more subdued mid-'60s LPs, putting the emphasis on her piano rather than band arrangements. It's rather slanted toward torch-blues ballads like "Strange Fruit," "Trouble In Mind," Billie Holiday's own composition "Tell Me More and More and Then Some," and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out." Simone's then-husband, Andy Stroud, wrote "Be My Husband," an effective adaptation of a traditional blues chant. By far the most impressive track is her frantic ten-minute rendition of the traditional "Sinnerman," an explosive tour de force that dwarfs everything else on the album.

Tracklist:

01 - Be My Husband
02 - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
03 - End Of The Line
04 - Trouble In Mind
05 - Tell Me More And More And Then Some
06 - Chilly Winds Don't Blow
07 - Ain't No Use
08 - Strange Fruit
09 - Sinnerman

Recorded Live in New York 1965.

Dynamic Range Report

Analyzed: Nina Simone / Pastel Blues
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR15 0.00 dB -17.68 dB 3:22 01-Be My Husband - Live In New York 1965
DR9 -0.73 dB -13.62 dB 2:41 02-Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - Live In New York 1965
DR10 -3.22 dB -17.45 dB 2:57 03-End Of The Line - Live In New York 1965
DR10 0.00 dB -12.80 dB 2:43 04-Trouble In Mind - Live In New York 1965
DR11 -1.36 dB -17.74 dB 3:11 05-Tell Me More And More And Then Some - Live In New York 1965
DR9 -2.45 dB -15.16 dB 4:06 06-Chilly Winds Don't Blow - Live In New York 1965
DR12 0.00 dB -14.83 dB 3:03 07-Ain't No Use - Live In New York 1965
DR12 -1.31 dB -20.52 dB 3:32 08-Strange Fruit - Live In New York 1965
DR11 0.00 dB -13.07 dB 10:19 09-Sinnerman - Live In New York 1965
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Number of tracks: 9
Official DR value: DR11

Samplerate: 192000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 6525 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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