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More Oldies but Goodies like Nina Simone?

Hi Just found her a few months after looking up on google who sang the best Mr Bojangles.  She is classified as Jazz which i don't normally follow. I am a product of 1970's rock.

I have been trying to find more music like hers, I found Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald etc by searching influences and related artists. ....  but their music sounds so dated in comparison.

Nina Simone's music doesn't seem dated at all, well to me anyway.

Research has led me to believe there were probably artists in the 1920s-30's etc that were just as good but the recordings are not good and therefore listening to them is not as satisfying.

BTW i found Nancy Sinatra i like her very much too but her discography of good songs doesn't have the same depth as Nina's.

Fellow music lovers, any suggestions of more like her I might enjoy

regards
Michael
 
fast_mick
fast_mick OP
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Thanks for your help, i will buy some Aretha Franklin lps she is certainly great.

The other problem with Nina Simone reissues is that there are a lot of labels i have never heard of and i am not sure of the sound quality.

Wax Love Italy
Wagram France
DOL
Bethlehem US
Vinyl Passion


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n80
2,133 posts
 
I like Nina Simone's 'I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl'
frogman
7,478 posts
 
Check out the recordings of Mavis Staples and of Marlena Shaw. From the same general time period as Simone, their singing sometimes pushes some of the same buttons for me. Their choice of material sometimes shared Simone’s social consciousness sensibility as well.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ7QPuvv91Js9joIUEy40HWLH4i2lQTOU

For something more current check out the recordings of Rene Marie.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmeu3dwBjdGzVIQT6wZ1TzdxyH2573tsn
mes
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