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Nina Simone's Bach solo

In Nina Simone's version of "My Baby Just Cares For Me" she plays a beautiful piano solo, which I heard was a variation on a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach. The solo indeed sounds like a variation on something that Bach could have wrote, but I don't know if it's actually a Bach piece or just a "Bach-like" piece.

So, can anyone tell me if the solo really is based on a piece by Bach, and if so which piece?

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pale blue angel

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There is such a little snippet, it's hard to tell, but it sounds like one of the 2 part Inventions, maybe C major?. If she took piano lessons, the 2 and 3 part inventions are staples.

If you want to listen to a recording and see if you can pinpoint the exact one, which I am not sure if it's possible (if you learn enough of them, you can take any four notes theme and make it sound like a Bach invention using the same technique), try Glen Gould's recording of Bach's 2 and 3 Part Inventions. If you can't pick it out of there, at least you have listened to the greatest of all time recording of the Bach Inventions.

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Roee Rotman

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Thanks.

Gould's recording is indeed great. I own it for some years and I love it very much. I tried to listen to it and find the original Bach piece upon which Simone's solo is based, but so far I didn't succeed. Maybe it really is just a Bach-like solo. Simone should know how to pull that trick, since she started out as classical pianist.

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