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A Single Woman is the final studio album by the singer Nina Simone, released in 1993 via Elektra Records.[8][9]

A Single Woman
Studio album by Nina Simone
Released	1993 (1993)
Recorded	Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Studio	Oceanway Studios, Mad Hatter Studio
Genre	Vocal, soul, jazz, pop
Label	Elektra
Producer	André Fischer[1]
Nina Simone chronology
Live at Ronnie Scott's (1987) A Single Woman (1993)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
New York Daily News	[5]
The Observer	[6]
Rolling Stone	[7]

Critical reception

The Times wrote: "Despite the strings, the woodwinds, the French accordions or the 'My Way' overtones of many of these songs, [Simone] speaks with bleak honesty and unashamed recalcitrance to many people who value such qualities above sham professionalism or artifice."[10]

Reviewing a reissue, Clash wrote that Simone's "voice is richer and deeper; her phrasing resembles more than ever the tender voicing of a jazz trumpet."[11]

Track listing

Personnel

• Nina Simone – vocals, piano
• John Chiodini, Al Schackman – guitar
• John Clayton, Buell Neidlinger, Christopher Hanulik, David Young, Jim Hughart, John Peña, Margaret Storer, Steve Edelman, Susan Ranney – bass
• Mike Melvoin – piano
• Jeff Hamilton, Paul Robinson, Andre Fischer – drums
• Bill Summers, Larry Bunker, Darryl Munyungo Jackson – percussion
• Gerald Albright – tenor saxophone
• Jack Sheldon – trumpet
• Frank Marocco – accordion
• Ann Stockton, Carol Robbins – harp
• Assa Drori, Connie Kupka, Gina Kronstadt, Gordon Marron, Henry Ferber, Irving Geller, Isabelle Daskoff, Israel Baker, Jay Rosen, Joel Derouin, Kathleen Lenski, Mari Tsumura, Mark Cargill, Shari Zippert, Yvette Devereaux – violin
• Evan Wilson, Herschel Wise, Margot MacLaine, Marilyn Baker, Rollice Dale – viola
• David Speltz, Frederick Seykora, Igor Horoshevsky, Marie Fera, Melissa Hasin, Suzie Katayama – cello
• Bob Tricarico, Earl Dumler, Gary Foster, Jack Nimitz, Jeff Clayton, Jon Kip, Valerie King – woodwind, reeds
• Brad Warnaar, Jeff DeRosa, Marilyn Johnson, Richard Todd – French horn
• Gerald Vinci – concertmaster, violin
• Jeremy Lubbock, John Clayton, Richard Evans, Nina Simone, Andre Fischer – arrangements

Technical

• Andre Fischer - Producer
• Al Schmitt - mixing, recording
• Michael Alago - executive producer
• Carol Friedman - photography

Charts

Chart (1993)	Peak position
US Jazz Albums	19[12]

References

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