Strange Fruit (Nina Simone)

Nina Simone · 1965 · Reprise du titre de Lewis Allan, créé par Billie Holiday

Context

Third track on side B (2 min 39 s). Appears on Anita Sings the Most, recorded in January 1957 in Chicago with Oscar Peterson's quartet, produced by Norman Granz (Verve, released April 1958).

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Blues, spirituals, work songs. 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

• Feeling Good (1965)
• I Put a Spell on You (1965)
• Sinnerman (1965)
• Be My Husband (1965)
• Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (1965)
• Trouble in Mind (1965)

Sources

• EN: Pastel Blues

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