Nina Simone at Newport

Nina Simone at Newport
Live album by
ReleasedAugust 1960[1]
Recorded30 June 1960[2]
VenueNewport Jazz Festival Newport,Rhode Island
GenreVocal, jazz, blues, folk
Length40:31
LabelColpix
CP-412 (Mono), SCP 412 (Stereo)
ProducerStu Phillips
Nina Simone chronology
Nina Simone at Town Hall
(1959)
Nina Simone at Newport
(1960)
Forbidden Fruit
(1961)

Nina Simone at Newport is a live album by jazz singer and musician Nina Simone. It was released in August 1960; the recording taken from a concert held at the Newport Jazz Festival earlier in the year, on 30 June 1960.[1][2] The album was her fourth overall, and her third for Colpix; it was also her second live album, following on from Nina Simone at Town Hall (1959) released at the end of the previous year. All arrangements on Nina Simone at Newport were written by Simone, and it was produced by Stu Phillips.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "Nina Simone". Discogs. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b Cohodas, Nadine (2010). Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. p. 97.