ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Mount Olivet Baptist Church hosted a concert celebrating the music of Nina Simone. Simone was known for her civil rights activism and was induced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...

The art of Nina Simone is the art of transformation. This becomes abundantly clear on “You’ve Got To Learn,” a previously unreleased concert recording from the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966. Ken ...

Simone is the latest artist honored in Thornton’s “Beyond Category” series that Thornton Dean Jason King described as “an ...

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