At Town Hall

Nina's second album for her new label Colpix, Nina Simone At Town Hall was largely recorded in concert at New York City's Town Hall on 15 September 1959.

Some of the songs featured in the concert were subsequently re-recorded in a studio the following month, with the album being released before the year was out. Most of the material on the album was either written or arranged by Nina herself, but there are interesting interpretations of Billie Holiday's Fine And Mellow and the standard Summertime.

Tracklisting 

1 Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair (Traditional; Arr. Nina Simone)
2 Exactly Like You (Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields) 
3 The Other Woman (Jesse Mae Robinson-Nina Simone)
4 Under the Lowest (Nina Simone) 
5 You Can Have Him (Irving Berlin) 
6 Summertime [Instrumental] (George & Ira Gershwin-Du Bose Heyward) 
7 Summertime (George & Ira Gershwin-Du Bose Heyward)
8 Cotton-Eyed Joe (Traditional)
9 Return Home (Nina Simone)
10 Wild Is the Wind (Dimitri Tiomkin-Ned Washington) 
11 Fine and Mellow (Billie Holiday-Arthur Herzog)
12 He Needs Me (Arthur Hamilton)