{"id":23503,"date":"2013-07-14T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=23503"},"modified":"2014-03-23T02:03:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T06:03:22","slug":"sunday-jazz-corner-with-nina-simone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=23503","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Jazz Corner with Nina Simone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/2013\/07\/14\/sunday-jazz-corner-with-nina-simone\/screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-2-23-24-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23505\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23505\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-07-14 at 2.23.24 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-2-23-24-pm.png\" width=\"445\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This version of \u00a0&#8220;Strange Fruit&#8221; by Nina Simone channels what many feel during racial times from years gone by to current controversial issues such as the Trayvon Martin shooting. \u00a0See the link below for the lyrics (controversial to many) and songwriters credits. \u00a0Billie Holiday&#8217;s original version was the popular version of this jazz classic. \u00a0It is equally if not better than Nina&#8217;s version but this rendition adds such a darkness and extra edgy realness that haunts your awareness.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not already have a collection of Nina Simone&#8217;s music, treat yourself and go to <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/the-best-of-nina-simone\/id79835\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a> and listen through her incredible career and legacy. \u00a0I thought I had almost everything by her, but just downloaded two albums I&#8217;d never heard before.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BcCm_ySBslk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nina_Simone\" target=\"_blank\">Nina Simone<\/a>\u00a0Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/b\/billie+holiday\/strange+fruit_20017859.html\" target=\"_blank\">Strange Fruit Lyrics<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=10b678a1-0aaa-4730-a4a3-272d6b745c04\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This version of \u00a0&#8220;Strange Fruit&#8221; by Nina Simone channels what many feel during racial times&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103804,124718155,18,34961255,124715594],"tags":[77809719,935129,124718158,124718181,1844,21992,124715776,124715777,253681,124715775,124718211,6567],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23503"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27119,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23503\/revisions\/27119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}