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Fans now get to hear Nina Simone’s revered set at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival. On Friday (July 21) Verve Records released You’ve Got To Learn, a six-song album containing live recordings of ...

Recorded live at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival, this brief but incendiary set includes a famous rendition of “Mississippi Goddam” tucked inside a handful of potent standards. Save this story Save ...

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Jazz great Nina Simone performs onstage in 1976. A series of new projects honors the WNC native. Photo by Georges Braunschweig Nearly two decades after her death, Nina Simone’s ...

Nina Simone was a luminary who continues to shape the world and new artists to this day. But before she became the High Priestess of Soul, Simone was Eunice Waymon, a girl from North Carolina, born 93 ...

HAMPTON ROADS, VA. — Actress Yolanda Rabun joins Coast Live to discuss her upcoming role in the Virginia Stage Company's "No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone," and shares a look at her unique ...