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Nina Simone: A Single Woman

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Label: Elektra Records
Released: 1993
Time:
 39:06
Category: Vocal, Soul, Jazz
Producer(s): André Fischer
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.ninasimone.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] A Single Woman (Rod McKuen) - 3:33
[2] Lonesome Cities (McKuen) - 3:08
[3] If I Should Lose You (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 3:59
[4] The Folks Who Live On the Hill (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 3:39
[5] Love's Been Good to Me (McKuen) - 3:57
[6] Papa, Can You Hear Me? (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) - 4:22
[7] Il n'y A Pas d'Amour Heureux (Louis Aragon, Georges Brassens) - 6:26
[8] Just Say I Love Him (Jimmy Dale, Martin Kalmanoff, Jack Val, Sam Ward) - 4:29
[9] The More I See You (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 2:42
[10] Marry Me (Nina Simone) - 2:51

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Nina Simone - Arranger, Piano, Vocals

John Chiodini - Guitar
John Clayton - Arranger, Bass
Larry Bunker - Percussion
Steven Edelman - Bass
Jeff Hamilton - Drums
Christopher Hanulik - Bass
Jim Hughart - Bass
Darryl Jackson - Percussion
Frank Marocco - Accordion
Mike Melvoin - Piano
Buell Neidlinger - Bass
John Pena - Bass
Susan Ranney - Bass
Carol Robbins - Harp
Paul Robinson - Drums
Al Shackman - Guitar
Margaret Storer - Bass
Bill Summers - Percussion

Gerald Albright - Vocals

Gordon Marron Strings:
Gerald Vinci - Concert Master, Violin
Jeremy Lubbock - Arranger, Orchestration
Jules Chaikin - Strings Contractor
Michael Melvoin - Orchestration, Piano
Mari Tsumura - Violin
Evan Wilson - Viola
Hershel Wise - Viola
David Young - Bass
Shari Zippert - Violin
Israel Baker - Violin
Marilyn Baker - Viola
Mark Cargill - Violin
Rollice Dale - Viola
Isabelle Daskoff - Violin
Joel Derouin - Violin
Yvette Devereaux - Violin
Assa Drori - Violin
Irving Geller - Violin
Henry Ferger - Violin
Marie Fera - Cello
Melissa "Missy" Hasin - Cello
Igor Horoshevsky - Cello
Suzie Katayama - Cello
Gina Kronstadt - Violin
Connie Kupka - Violin
Kathleen Lenski - Violin
Margot MacLaine - Viola
Jay Rosen - Violin
James Ross - Viola, Violin
Frederick Seykora - Cello
David H. Speltz - Bass, Cello
Ann Mason Stockton - Harp

Jeff Clayton - Brass, Woodwind
Earl Dumler - Brass, Woodwind
Gary Foster - Brass, Woodwind
Valarie King - Brass, Woodwind
Jon Kip - Brass, Woodwind
Jack Nimitz - Brass, Woodwind
Marilyn L. Johnson - French Horn
Jeffrey DeRosa - French Horn
Jack Sheldon - Trumpet
Richard Todd - French Horn
Bob Tricarico - Brass, Woodwind
Brad Warnaar - French Horn

André Fischer - Producer
Michael Alago - Executive Producer
Al Schmitt - Engineer, Mixing
Jeffrey "Woody" Woodruff - Engineer
Robert Read - Assistant Engineer, Engineer
Ken Allardyce - Assistant Engineer, Engineer
Dan Bosworth - Assistant Engineer, Engineer
Doug Sax - Mastering
Robin Lynch - Art Direction
Carol Friedman - Photography
Richard Evans - Arranger
Jane Madgwick - Assistant
Patty Nichols - Production Coordination
Ellen Silverstein - Clothing/Wardrobe

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Vocalist, composer and pianist Nina Simone returned from a lengthy self-imposed exile in 1993 with an autobiography and outstanding CD highlighting her still impressive singing and interpretative skills in an intriguing context, surrounded by strings and guitars. While the backdrops were lush and occasionally corny, Simone's deep, penetrating voice, careful pacing and dramatic delivery kept the songs from becoming sappy. While she's always been a great protest and political singer, Simone is also a superb romantic/love song stylist. Simone remains among America's premier performers, and this CD was a welcome addition to her sparkling legacy.

Ron Wynn - All Music Guide



Ah, Nina.

The mercurial, indefinable and always contrary Nina Simone was poorly represented on disc during her final years. This, her last studio album, was recorded in 1993 – a full decade before her death. That one of 20th century music’s finest female voices should suffer such a fate is a tragedy worthy of the saddest song.

This collection mixes the mature Simone with some lush arrangements. Her voice is richer and deeper; her phrasing resembles more than ever the tender voicing of a jazz trumpet. The original re-mastered album sounds more defined, with Michael Melvoin’s piano in particular benefiting from tinkering with the tinkling keys. A much slower take on the familiar standard “The More I See You” is a passionate rage against the view the age diminishes beauty, with Simone lustfully crooning over a jazz setting that belies the album’s 1993 vintage.

A relaxed session, with some expert musicians backing a truly transcendental voice, “A Single Woman” really comes into life with the newly archived bonus tracks. “The Long And Winding Road” is suddenly transformed into a morbid reflection on age - it’s message of love more pertinent than ever. The highlight of the album, it seems, lay on the cutting room floor – a treatment of “No Woman, No Cry” that reverses the songs meaning to create an affecting message of female empowerment.

An important work in its own right, the expanded version of “A Single Woman” gives a unique insight into the working process of one of pop music’s most singular voices. Remaining dedicated to the causes that fuelled her to the last, Nina Simone rages against the dying of the light in an album that deserves to be known as much more than a curiosity.

Clash Music Reviews - / 18.06.2008



A Single Woman is an album from 1993 by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It was her last album. "The Folks Who Live On the Hill" is dedicated to Errol Barrow, the former Prime Minister of Barbados with whom Nina had an affair. "Papa, Can You Hear Me?", a song better known in its Barbra Streisand version.

The dress Nina is wearing on the cover is designed by Christian Dior and the earrings were custom-made by André A. Jackson. The picture of Nina inside the jewel case booklet was used for many of her obituaries when she died in 2003, age 70. It shows Nina in wearing a golden turban, sitting on a chair and with the pink-red Dior-dress spread out around her.

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