The High Priestess of Soul, Sister Nina Simone

My guest this week, poet, playwright, essayist and novelist, Ishmael Reed. Mr. Reed and I will be discussing the recent film, Precious, as well as whatever else the day might recommend. Mr. Reed's most recent book, The Plays, was published by Dalkey Archive this Fall. It is the first volume to collect Mr. Reed's work as a playwright. His forthcoming collection of essays, Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers, is due this Spring from Baraka Books. Also this afternoon New Day Jazz will feature music from Nina Simone, focusing on two of her transitional albums, Wild is the Wind and Silk and Soul, her second for RCA. Included in the broadcast will be some of her most famous works, Four Women, and I Wish I Knew How How It Feels To Be Free.

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Track	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Nina Simone	I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free	Silk & Soul	RCA
	Nina Simone	Turn Me On	Silk & Soul	RCA
	Andy & the Bey Sisters	Love Medley (Love Is Just Around the Corner, I Love You, Love You Madly)	'Round Midnight	Prestige
	Al Smith	Never Let Me Go	Hear My Blues	Bluesville
	Al Smith	I've Got the Right Kind of Loving	Hear My Blues	Bluesville
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	The Jazztet	Killer Joe	Meet the Jazztet	Chess
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	Miles Davis	Blue X-Mas (To Whom It May Concern)	Jingle Bell Jazz	Columbia
	Duke Ellington	Jingle Bells	Primpin' for the Prom	CBS - France
	Charles Brown	Merry Christmas Baby	Driftin' Blues	Aladdin
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	Betty Carter	I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire	The Modern Sound of Betty Carter	ABC - Paramount
	Carmen McRae	I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life	Bittersweet	Focus
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	Nina Simone	Four Women	Wild is the Wind	Phillips
	Nina Simone	Lilac Wine	Wild is the Wind	Phillips
	Nina Simone	Break Down & Let It All Out	Wild is the Wind	Phillips
	Johnny Carisi (Gil Evans Orchestra)	Angkor Wat	Into the Hot	Impulse
	Duke Ellington featuring Lil Green	Walkin' & Singin' the Blues	Primpin for the Prom	CBS - France
	Interview with Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles
	Sun Ra	I Am Strange	I Am Strange	Norton