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Nina Simone's lost set at 1966 Newport Jazz Festival features Mississippi
protest song





NINA SIMONE'S LOST SET AT 1966 NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL FEATURES MISSISSIPPI
PROTEST SONG

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Mark Kennedy  |  Associated Press

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Video projection of Nina Simone singing at the Robert E. Lee Monument
Video projection of Nina Simone singing "I wish I knew how it would feel to be
free" at the Robert E. Lee Monument on July 4, 2020, in Richmond, Virginia.
Scott P. Yates, Rockford Register Star


NEW YORK — Nina Simone fans have a reason for feeling good: A previously
unreleased recording of the legendary artist's set at the Newport Jazz Festival
in July 1966 is being released.



Verve Records and UMe on Friday are issuing “You’ve Got to Learn,” a six-song
set that includes a different take on Simone’s celebrated protest
song “Mississippi Goddam.”

The songs also include “You’ve Got to Learn, ”‘I Loves You, Porgy," “Blues For
Mama," “Be My Husband" and ”Music for Lovers." Simone, who also plays piano, is
joined by guitar, bass and drums.

There are sound issues throughout — as they are sorted out before the final
song, the encore “Music for Lovers,” she screams “Shut Up! “Shut Up!” to a
heckler — but Simone's power and mastery are clearly potent.



“Her performance is not fiery so much as passionate, not critical so much as
coaxing,” writes Simone scholar Shana L. Redmond in the liner notes. “These are
love songs and each captured something of the careful combination of intimacy
and immediacy on stage for which Simone was known.”



“Mississippi Goddam,” was written by Simone in response to the 1963 Alabama
church bombing that killed four little girls and the assassination of Medgar
Evers in Mississippi that same year. The version Simone sung that day swings
differently than earlier versions, less hectoring and includes the line “Watts
has made me lose my rest,” a reference to the riots in Los Angeles on Aug. 11,
1965.

This year marks Simone’s 90th birthday. The so-called “High Priestess of
Soul” and a civil rights icon recorded nearly 40 albums between 1958 and 1973,
with such cherished songs as “I Put a Spell on You,” “Don't Let Me Be
Misunderstood” and “Feeling Good.” She died in 2003.

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