CJO presents LITTLE GIRL BLUE Celebrating the music of Nina Simone from aisha song Watch Video
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Description: Maestro Charlton Singleton will lead CJO through the band’s first tribute in its history to a woman in jazz – the incomparable “High Priestess of Soul,” Nina Simone. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon (1933-2003) in Tryon, North Carolina, it was her upbringing as a preacher’s daughter, performing for revivals and sermons, combined with her training as an accomplished classical pianist, and fervent passion for civil liberty that were the driving forces of her unique contributions as a singer,
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