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內容簡介 ★AMG-4星高評 ★流行百科全書4星高評Jimmy Bond and Albert "Tootie" Heath, it showcases her ballad voice as one of mystery and sensuality and showcases her up-tempo jazz style with authority and an enigmatic down-home feel that is nonetheless elegant. The album also introduced a fine jazz pianist. Simone was a solid improviser who never strayed far from the blues. Check the opener, her reading of Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo," which finger-pops and swings while keeping the phrasing deep-blue. It is contrasted immediately with one of the - if not the - definitive reads of Willard Robison's steamy leave-your-lover ballad "Don't Smoke in Bed." The title track, written by Rodgers & Hart, features "Good King Wenceslas" as a classical prelude to one of the most beautiful pop ballads ever written. It is followed immediately by the funky swing in "Love Me or Leave Me" with a smoking little piano solo in the bridge where Bachmeets Horace Silver and Bobby Timmons.TracklistA1. Mood Indigo 4:00A2. Don't Smoke In Bed 3:09A3. He Needs Me 2:26A4. Little Girl Blue 4:12A5. Love Me Or Leave Me 3:18A6. My Baby Just Cares For Me 3:33B1. Good Bait 5:25B2. Plain Gold Ring 3:50B3. You'll Never Walk Alone 3:58B4. I Loves You Porgy 4:03B5. Central Park Blues 3:05