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Nina Simone

Nina At Newport

1960 · Colpix SCP 412 · Stereo · US · LP · 33 1/3 RPM

Pressing details

Label	Colpix
Catalogue number	SCP 412
Year	1960
Mono / Stereo	Stereo
Country	US
Format	LP
Speed	33 1/3 RPM
Genre	Jazz - Vocal/Live
Producer	Stu Phillips
Musicians	Nina Simone (vocals, piano), Al Schackman (guitar), Chris White (bass), Bobby Hamilton (drums)

Matrix / Runout

Side A:  N8 OY 0239-3 A R R
Side B:  N8 O Y 0238-2 C1 R R

Condition

Cover: EX
Vinyl: EX

Variant chronology

1960 - Colpix CP 412 mono, gold label first pressing
1960 - Colpix SCP 412 gold label stereo (this label design)  <- this copy
1962-1966 - Later Colpix gold-label repress runs (same address, re-cut stampers)
c.1965-70 - Pye UXP-97-Y Japan pressing w/ obi
2013- - Not Now Music/European CD-era reissues
2016 - Doxy Music 180g LP+CD reissue
2021-2026 - 180g colored-vinyl / Wax Love import reissues (new)

This Pressing

1960 Colpix SCP 412 stereo - gold-label early Colpix stereo pressing; the specific stamper generation is not identified in the runout.

The Album

Nina Simone at Newport captures her performance at the fifth Newport Jazz Festival on June 30, 1960, released by Colpix that August as her third album for the label and second live recording after Nina Simone at Town Hall. Backed only by her working trio of Al Schackman on guitar, Chris White on bass and Bobby Hamilton on drums, Simone reworked material spanning the Gershwins' "Porgy," Cole Porter standards, and traditional and gospel-rooted pieces like "Little Liza Jane" and "In the Evening by the Moonlight," all arranged by Simone herself. The set is prized for the freedom of a festival stage, letting her stretch out on the extended, largely instrumental "Nina's Blues" and the call-and-response "Flo Me La." Coming early in her career, it shows Simone already fusing jazz, blues, folk, and classical technique into a singular style that resisted easy genre labeling. The album helped cement her reputation as a uniquely commanding live performer and remains a touchstone recording from her formative Colpix years, valued by critics and collectors as a document of her early artistic range before her more overtly political recordings of the mid-1960s.

Tracklist

Side 1

1. Flo Me La
2. Nina's Blues
3. In The Evening By The Moonlight

Side 2

1. Trouble In Mind
2. Blues For Porgy
3. Little Liza Jane
4. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

The Label

This copy carries the gold Colpix label with the red 'COLPIX' wordmark and Columbia Pictures torch/Statue-of-Liberty logo, 'STEREO' printed at right, and the 'COLPIX RECORDS · A DIVISION OF COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION · NEW YORK, N.Y. · MADE IN U.S.A.' rim text - the design Colpix used for its stereo LPs from the label's 1960 launch. That gold-label design places this copy in the label's earliest stereo pressing window, well before Colpix's mid-1960s ownership changes and before the CP/SCP catalogue was later folded into the Colgems/Cinerama-era reissue runs. The runout on this copy is stamped in an 'N8OY-023x' job-number style rather than the simple etched 'SCP-412 A1/B' codes carried by Abbey Record Mfg. pressings of this title; the specific plant and stamper generation are not identified on this pressing.

Fidelity

This is a straightforward analog stereo cut of a 1960 festival tape, mastered and pressed in the early 1960s without any documented audiophile remastering; Colpix pressings of this era are generally considered adequate but unspectacular by collector forums, with surface noise and modest dynamic range typical of the period's festival location recording. No major audiophile reissue (Mobile Fidelity, Analogue Productions, Speakers Corner) of this title exists; later reissues are generic 180g imports (Doxy, Wax Love) sourced from digital transfers, which collectors on the forums have found flat and uninspired next to an original. As an early gold-label stereo pressing, this copy sits at or near the top of the fidelity hierarchy for the title, well above the Japanese Pye reissue and the 2010s-2020s European reissue vinyl.

Notes

Gold Colpix label with torch logo and 'MADE IN U.S.A.' rim text places this within Colpix's earliest (1960-launch) stereo label design, consistent with a first-issue-era stereo pressing rather than a later reissue. The runout codes (N8OY-0238-2C1 RR / N8OY-0239-3A RR) are in a job-number style that does not match the simple etched 'SCP-412 A1/B' codes carried by the Abbey-pressing variant of this title, and the specific plant/stamper generation is not identified on this pressing. Notably, the pressed side labels are transposed relative to the jacket's printed track list - the disc's actual Side 1 plays the 'Flo Me La' set that the cover lists as Side Two, and vice versa - a known variant quirk of this title.

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