Nina Simone "To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story" box set October 27th

Nina Simone (1933 – 2003)) gets the box set treatment with the forthcoming release of To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story:

(...) a deluxe new four-disc (three CDs DVD) box set that is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of Nina Simone’s music ever compiled. Containing 51 audio tracks – eight of them previously unreleased – covering her recording years from 1957 to 1993 for the Bethlehem, Colpix, Philips, RCA (for whom she cut nine LPs that are considered the pinnacle of her output), CTI, and Elektra record labels, plus another nine performances on the 23-minute documentary DVD – the box set will be available on October 27th through SONY BMG.

Also in this set: photos from the personal collection of Nina Simone historian Sylvia Hampton as well as meticulously researched track-by-track annotations written by David Nathan.

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