Nina Simone – Little Girl Blue (AP 200g Vinyl LP)

Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original stereo analog master tapes!

Stoughton Printing old-style gatefold jacket with beautiful added photos!

Plated and pressed by Quality Record Pressings

“The recording quality is extremely high. Transparency and timbral accuracy are high points, the ‘stereo’ spread, the low point. This sounds as if it was a two track recording meant to be mixed to mono and in fact, I have a mono original that I prefer spatially, but it can’t otherwise begin to compare to this reissue’s remarkable clarity, transparency and black backgrounds.” — Music = 10/11; Sound = 9/11 – Michael Fremer, AnalogPlanet.com.

Little Girl Blue was Nina Simone’s debut release. Bethlehem founder Gus Wildi, taken with the uniquely beautiful quality of her voice, gave her complete control over song selection, backing musicians, arrangements and production of the recording.

For this new Analogue Productions reissue of Little Girl Blue we’ve upped the ante. A single pocket jacket to suffice? No. We’ve done the lady right with a heavy Stoughton Printing tip-on gatefold jacket featuring gorgeous color photos of Nina from a glamorous stage performance. And the peerless mastering by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound in New York sounds incredible. Then top it off with 200-gram Quality Record Pressings vinyl that is unsurpassingly silent and gives incredibly rich playback.

As the liner notes say, there are plenty of musical singers who vocalize well and have an individual style but who never cross that thin and hard-to-define line that separates a good “pop” style from one that is jazz. The first few notes of this record will immediately confirm Nina’s jazz credentials. As she said, “You got to get to people.” That she does with a vibrant and husky contralto that tonally sounds like a blend of an unlikely combination of Marian Anderson and Ma Rainey.

	Side 1
	1. Mood Indigo
	2. Don’t Smoke In Bed
	3. He Needs Me
	4. Little Girl Blue
	5. Love Me Or Leave Me
	6. My Baby Just Cares For Me
	Side 2
	7. Good Bait
	8. Plain Gold Ring
	9. You’ll Never Walk Alone
	10. I Loves You Porgy
	11. Central Park Blues