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I don't have very much jazz music. It's a problem I don't like to talk about with other people, but given the focus of this blog, I ought to come clean sooner than later. It's a problem I've just never gotten around to correcting.
A lot of what I do have is from the album Jazz After Dark [Last.fm], a compilation that's hard to keep from getting lost in as I try to focus on finishing this article. (I recommend it.)
One of the tracks that always catches my attention is Nina Simone's "Feeling Good".
I've actually become so in love with this song that my library has two additional versions of it that I created with Capo, slowed to 0.75x and 0.5x so that I could practice singing along, though it turns out I can't. ;) It's incredible how much is going on in her voice in every single phrase, a lot of which was impossible for me to pick up except at half speed.
When I finally got to visiting NinaSimone.com, she had long since passed away and a short biography was published on the front page. It explains how, "also known as The High Priestess of Soul, she paid great attention to the musical expression of emotions," and while I usually think a phrase like that doesn't mean much, her rendition of Feeling Good is good enough evidence for me that she took it very seriously. Her portrayal on Wikipedia helped convinced me of that.
I couldn't find an MP3 on Amazon for this one, but iTunes has it.
And just for hilarity, here's Michael Buble's version of "Feeling Good" I don't recommend buying this, I'm only linking because after listening to Nina Simone's version several times today, this one had me in fits.
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