I Loves You, Porgy

Nina Simone · 1959

Context

Track 10 of Little Girl Blue, Nina Simone's first album (Bethlehem, February 1959). Released as a single in May 1959 after being played on the radio in Philadelphia, it reached number 18 on the pop chart and number 2 on the R&B chart. It later appeared on the compilation Nina Simone and Her Friends (1960).

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• My Baby Just Cares for Me (1958)
• Mississippi Goddam (1964)
• Feeling Good (1965)
• I Put a Spell on You (1965)
• Sinnerman (1965)
• Be My Husband (1965)

Sources

• EN: Little Girl Blue (album)

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