SEALED VOCAL JAZZ LP NINA SIMONE “Pastel Blues” PHILIPS orig ’65 MONO WOW

$

59

Artist:  NINA SIMONE

Title:   “Pastel Blues”

Label:   PHILIPS.  Monaural pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Catalog number is PHM 200-187. 

Year:  1965

Review:

“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..”

(courtesy Richie Unterberger, allmusic.com)

Condition: 

NOTE:  This album came to us STILL SEALED in original factory shrink wrap as part of the estate of a shop owner who maintained a personal collection of jazz LPs, many of them sealed. 

STILL SEALED in original factory shrink wrap.  Shrink wrap is sparkling clean and fully intact.  Top right corner tip is slightly curled due to the tightness of the shrink wrap.  Otherwise corners and seams are flawless. 

A discount  price sticker is affixed at top right corner, I did not attempt to remove.  There are no cutout/deletion markings.

A scarce album to begin with, and rarer yet to find one in unplayed, factory sealed condition after all these years. This is one for the archives!    

Track Listing: 

• Be My Husband
• Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
• End of the Line
• Trouble in Mind
• Tell Me More and More and Then Some
• Chilly Winds Don’t Blow
• Ain’t No Use
• Strange Fruit
• Sinnerman

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