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Nina Simone: Little Girl Blue

Nina Simone: Little Girl Blue

Analogue Productions  CAPJ 083 SA

Stereo Hybrid

Jazz


Nina Simone (piano and vocals)
Jimmy Bond (bass)
Albert "Tootie" Heath (drums)


Little Girl Blue was Nina Simone's debut release. Bethlehem founder Gus Wildi, taken with the uniquely beautiful quality of her voice, gave her complete control over song selection, backing musicians, arrangements and production of the recording. Nina and her rhythm section recorded the entire album plus three additional tracks in just one session. In her biography of Nina, Nadine Cohodas recounts engineer Irv Greeenbaum's recollection of that day: "Nothing like Nina's artistry had ever happened before ... Her voice and the keyboard playing were so rich and interesting that they could have stood alone."

Little Girl Blue documents Nina Simone's unparalleled and idiosyncratic musical persona at a particularly vibrant, formative stage, and helped launch her on a trajectory with more than its share of personal and professional trials and triumphs.

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Engineer — Irv Greenbaum

Recorded late fall, 1957, at Beltone Studio, New York, NY
Tracks
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1. Mood Indigo
2. Don’t Smoke In Bed
3. He Needs Me
4. Little Girl Blue
5. Love Me Or Leave Me
6. My Baby Just Cares For Me
7. Good Bait
8. Plain Gold Ring
9. You’ll Never Walk Alone
10. I Loves You Porgy
11. Central Park Blues
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Comment by Raypirri - January 27, 2026 (1 of 1)

This is one of Nina's best albums and one that is well worthy of this fabulous Analogue Production's DSD mastering for SACD.
The album and reproduction is superb and if one can tolerate and allow one slight criticism, it would be that Nina's vocals are mostly isolated to the left channel.
(Whether this happens on the Vinyl releases, I am unsure). But most of all, this is a highly recommended SACD in pure DSD at its finest.