Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone

Tributee: Nina Simone.Liner Note Author: Angela Davis.Recording information: Blast Off Studios, NYC; Brooklyn Recording, Brooklyn, NY; Red Bull Studios, NYC; The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NYC.Illustrator: Fusako Chubachi.While the year 2015 saw the release of three films inspired by the maverick and icon Nina Simone, Nina Revisited is attached to the documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, a loving tribute itself, but also a painfully honest one. This possible soundtrack takes a more abstract route while offering the same love and reverence, and it's also an almost-solo album from Lauryn Hill, the driving force behind six of the album's 16 tracks. A traditional and stately take on "Feeling Good" is the obvious pick for the artist, but her bold and vicious delivery of "I've Got Life" is equally as grand. Her "Wild Is the Wind" is elegance with an edge, while "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" is surprisingly spacy but solidly built, and with Robert Glasper's name among the albu