Nina Simone 2005 re-issues

[tjobbe]

Hi All,

can anyone shed some light on me what those seven Nina Simone re-issues are about that EMI is just putting to the European (German only ?) market.

FORBIDDEN FRUIT

NINA SIMONE AT CARNEGIE HALL

NINA SIMONE AT NEWPORT

NINA SIMONE AT THE VILLAGE GATE

NINA SIMONE AT TOWN HALL

NINA SIMONE SINGS ELLINGTON

and finally THE AMAZING NINA SIMONE

all in 24bit but with the incredible EMI CopyControl (argh)

As regular with EMI I was looking at US sites but only found the 1998 twofers with two LP on 1CD set from 1998.

As I wanted to buy those Colpix releases anyway soon maybe some can help me to drive the decision which versions to take...

as 2001 sells the seven above for 7€ each....

Cheers, Tjobbe

EDIT: Amazon US lists them as EMI Imports only so I assume they won't be released there....

Edited April 25, 2005 by tjobbe

[mikeweil]

FORBIDDEN FRUIT

NINA SIMONE AT CARNEGIE HALL

NINA SIMONE AT NEWPORT

NINA SIMONE AT THE VILLAGE GATE

NINA SIMONE AT TOWN HALL

NINA SIMONE SINGS ELLINGTON

and finally THE AMAZING NINA SIMONE

EDIT: Amazon US lists them as EMI Imports only so I assume they won't be released there....

The British branch of EMI holds the rights to Roulette and its sub-labels - they have their own release policy. They initiated the first batch of Roulette CD reissues in the 1980's.

Nina Simone has a large following in GB - she was very influential there, as described in detail by Ashley Kahn in his notes to the Philips box.

The above were all Colpix LPs - I have a cassette of the Ellington somewhere and remember it was quite nice. Sound might be better than Collectables as the Brits have the original tapes.