Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone

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Index Abdul-Malik, Ahmed, 124 Abernathy, Ralph, 258 Academy of Music (New York), 263–4 Academy of Music (Philadelphia), 92, 146, 256–7 Acket, Paul, 213 Adams, Joey, 140–1 Adams, Paul, 100–1 Adderley, Cannonball, 97, 201 Adderley, Nat, 108 Adler, Larry, 130–1 “African Mailman,” 89 “Ain’t Got No—I Got Life,” 213, 220, 225, 230–1, 399n “Alabama Song,” 287 Alago, Michael, 348–52, 349, 354 Alexander, Clifford, 268 Ali, Muhammad, 280 Alias, Don, 219, 224, 229, 232, 240, 259 Allen, Marriage, 42 Allen, Steve, 155–8, 165, 190 Allen School, 41–5, 45, 46, 49, 106 “Alone Again Naturally,” 273, 315 “Amazing Grace,” 267 Amazing Nina Simone, The, 83–4, 91 American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA), 139–42 American Jazz Festival (Detroit), 115 American Society of African Culture (AMSAC), 120, 121–5, 122, 282, 387n Amherst College, 288 Amsterdam, 213–14, 251–2, 251, 290 Amsterdam Daily News, 214 & Beautiful II, 246–7 Anderson, Faye, 90, 95, 101 Anderson, Marian, 3, 68, 81, 265, 368 Angelou, Maya, 247–8, 400n Animals, 112, 160, 218, 233 Annie’s Room (London), 175, 177 Antibes Juan-les-Pins, 177, 233, 320 apartheid, 190 Apollo Theater, 107–9, 117–18, 146, 227–8 Armstrong, Louis, 136, 247, 385n Artists Rights Enforcement Corporation (AREC), 321, 362, 364 Ashford, Nick, 370–1 Ashford & Simpson, 370–1 Ashville, N.C., 41–2 Asnas, Max, 141 Atkinson, Lisle, 131, 135, 141, 149, 156–7, 165–6, 174, 181, 186, 293, 344 electric bass issue and, 192–3 on NS’s protest songs, 151–2 Atlanta, 367 Atlantic City, N.J., 60–70, 73, 82, 90 segregation in, 60 Atlantic City Press, 65, 66, 67, 380n Auditorium Theatre (Chicago), 274 Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. Axelrod, Ted, 67, 70 Aznavour, Charles, 151 Bach, J. S., 35, 37, 43, 45, 52, 63, 64, 74, 76, 92, 102, 156, 231, 305, 331 “Backlash Blues,” 193, 194, 198, 200, 202, 206, 218 Bailey, Mildred, 83 Bailey, Vivian, 76, 78 Baker, Josephine, 306 Baldwin, James, 3, 121–2, 136, 139, 142, 154–5, 175, 287, 302, 303 Baltimore, Md., 195–6 Baltimore, 292–5 “Baltimore,” 293, 315–16, 357 Baltimore Afro-American, 82, 229 Banks, Dolly, 188 Baraka, Amiri, 268, 336–7 Barbados, 238–9, 279–80, 282, 307–8 Barbican Hall (London), 315–16, 356–7 Barcelona, 335 Barner, George, 141–2 Barrow, Errol, 279–80 Basie, Count, 88, 116, 165, 247, 383n Basin Street East (New York), 155 Bass, George, 150 Bay Area Jazz Festival, 269 Beal, John, 293 Beatles, 176, 192, 223, 260 Bee Gees, 215, 325 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 74, 78 Belafonte, Harry, 135, 136, 138, 160, 172, 195 “Be My Husband,” 183, 312 Benbow, Warren, 259–60, 262, 279, 319 Benjamin, Bennie, 152–3 Benjamin, Dick, 102 Bennett, Tony, 172, 350 Berenstein, Ron, 342 Bernstein, Leonard, 111, 172, 223 Berry, Chuck, 197 Berton, Ralph, 96 “Bess, You Is My Woman Now,” 187 Best of Nina Simone, The, 399n Bethany Baptist Church Junior Choir, 263 Bethlehem Records, 76–8, 81–2, 83, 84, 89, 91, 114, 290, 341, 381–2n Beverly Theatre (Los Angeles), 325 Big Sea, The (Hughes), 176–7 Bikel, Theodore, 139 Billboard, 84, 85, 101, 112, 129, 173–4, 180, 201, 220, 236, 241, 255, 261, 268, 294, 330, 399n Binyanei Ha’ooma (Jerusalem), 290–1 Birmingham, Ala. Baptist church bombing in, 144, 145, 157, 324 benefit concert in, 139–42 “Blackbird,” 135–6 Black Gold, 240–1, 253, 276 “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair,” 74, 229, 258, 368 Black Journal, 229–30, 236 Black Muslims, 173 “Black Solidarity Day for Survival,” 258–9 Blakey, Art, 92 Bland, Bobby “Blue,” 162 Blood, Sweat & Tears, 231, 233 Blue Note (Chicago), 88 Blue Note (New York), 324 “Blue Prelude,” 83 Blues and Soul, 312–13 “Blues for Mama,” 198 “Blue Skies,” 194 Bluitt, Doris, 134 Blumenthal, Bob, 330 Bok, Mary Louis Curtis, 52 Bond, Jimmy, 77 Boone, Pat, 204 430 · index Boston Globe, 188 Bougere, Juanita, 363, 365, 366, 370, 373–4 Bown, Patti, 119 Boy Edgar, 251, 251, 252 Brady, Holland, Jr., 11, 23, 30 Branch, William, 123 Brecht, Bertolt, 150, 153, 275, 287, 325 Brel, Jacques, 164, 314 Broadway-Blues-Ballads, 160 Brookhouser, Frank, 68–9, 92, 96 Brooklyn Academy of Music, 213, 275 Brown, H. Rap, 202 Brown, Martha, 22 Brown, Oscar, Jr., 107–8, 134, 141, 187, 309, 386n...