Forbidden Fruit | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | ||||
Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1961 | |||
Recorded | 1960–1961 | |||
Studio | New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz, blues, folk | |||
Length | 37:57 | |||
Label | Colpix | |||
Producer | Cal Lampley | |||
Nina Simone chronology | ||||
|
Forbidden Fruit is the third studio album by Nina Simone. It was her second studio album for Colpix. The rhythm section accompanying her is the same trio as on both live albums before and after this release.
Review scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
DownBeat | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer commented that Forbidden Fruit was not a jazz album, but added that "Simone demonstrates here that she has the equipment and some of the potential to be a fairly good jazz vocalist". [3]
The 2005 CD version by EMI features 11 bonus tracks roughly recorded at the same time, themselves adding up to a kind of "lost album" of approximately 40 minutes. Four of the songs - Porgy, I Is Your Woman Now, Baubles, Bangles and Beads, Gimme a Pigfoot (a different take), and Spring Is Here - were previously issued on Nina Simone with Strings in edited form with an overdubbed string section.
Forbidden Fruit | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | ||||
Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1961 | |||
Recorded | 1960–1961 | |||
Studio | New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz, blues, folk | |||
Length | 37:57 | |||
Label | Colpix | |||
Producer | Cal Lampley | |||
Nina Simone chronology | ||||
|
Forbidden Fruit is the third studio album by Nina Simone. It was her second studio album for Colpix. The rhythm section accompanying her is the same trio as on both live albums before and after this release.
Review scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
DownBeat | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer commented that Forbidden Fruit was not a jazz album, but added that "Simone demonstrates here that she has the equipment and some of the potential to be a fairly good jazz vocalist". [3]
The 2005 CD version by EMI features 11 bonus tracks roughly recorded at the same time, themselves adding up to a kind of "lost album" of approximately 40 minutes. Four of the songs - Porgy, I Is Your Woman Now, Baubles, Bangles and Beads, Gimme a Pigfoot (a different take), and Spring Is Here - were previously issued on Nina Simone with Strings in edited form with an overdubbed string section.