Nina Simone

ACOUSTIC SOUNDS, VERVE/UMe's ACCLAIMED AUDIOPHILE VINYL REISSUE SERIES, TO DELIVER MORE DEFINITIVE PRESSINGS OF SOME OF THE LABEL'S BEST-KNOWN JAZZ ALBUMS AS IT ENTERS ITS THIRD YEAR

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Thursday, May 5, 2022

LOS ANGELES, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since launching in 2020, Verve/UMe's all-analog vinyl reissue series, Acoustic Sounds, has provided definitive, best-in-class audiophile grade pressings of some of the most important and beloved jazz records of all time, each mastered from the original tapes and produced with the utmost care. The nearly two dozen releases to date feature many of the timeless, classic albums from the Verve Label Group's stable of labels including Decca, EmArcy, Impulse! Records, Philips Records and Verve, and thus far have included Bill Evans' Trio '64, Clifford Brown and Max Roach's A Study In Brown, Gil Evans Orchestra's Out of the Cool, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme and Ballads, Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson's Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson, Nina Simone's I Put a Spell on You and Pastel Blues, Oliver Nelson's Blues And The Abstract Truth, Peggy Lee's Black Coffee and Sarah Vaughan's Sarah Vaughan, and Stan Getz and João Gilberto's Getz/Gilberto.

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  • The nearly two dozen releases to date feature many of the timeless, classic albums from the Verve Label Group's stable of labels including Decca, EmArcy, Impulse!
  • but will also feature several important albums released by Verve between 1956-65.
  • Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's immortal duets albums will follow with Ella & Louis (1956) on July 15 and Ella & Louis Again (1957) on September 16.
  • All albums will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl and packaged in high-quality tip-on gatefold jackets, replicating the original packaging.

Dove, Verve Records, UMe and The Nina Simone Charitable Trust Partner To Create First-Ever Music Video For Musical Icon And Activist Nina Simone's "Feeling Good"

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Thursday, June 10, 2021

LOS ANGELES, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Dove, Verve Records, UMe, and the Nina Simone Charitable Trust have joined forces to create the first official music video for "Feeling Good," the iconic song by legendary musician and activist Nina Simone.

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  • LOS ANGELES, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Dove, Verve Records, UMe, and the Nina Simone Charitable Trust have joined forces to create the first official music video for "Feeling Good," the iconic song by legendary musician and activist Nina Simone.
  • A representative of the Nina Simone Charitable Trust says, "Nina was a tireless champion of individual freedom of expression.
  • Nina Simone is a true legend, and we're thrilled to partner with Dove, UMe, and the Nina Simone Charitable Trust, to create an empowering video, and to continue to bring her music to her fans, both old and new."
  • Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) is the global catalog and special markets division of Universal Music Group (UMG).