A Single Woman (album)

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

In November of 2025, Omnivore Records released A Single Woman: The Complete Elektra Recordings- a double-album featuring the complete collection of material that Simone recorded during those sessions. It features covers of Bob Dylan, Prince, The Beatles, and Bob Marley, originally intended for a follow-up album that never happened.

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."

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."

Track listing

Personnel

• Nina Simone – vocals, piano
• John Chiodini, Al Schackman – guitar
• John Clayton, Steve Edelman, Christopher Hanulik, Jim Hughart, Buell Neidlinger, John Peña, Susan Ranney, Margaret Storer, David Young – bass guitar
• Mike Melvoin – piano
• Andre Fischer, Jeff Hamilton, Paul Robinson – drums
• Larry Bunker, Darryl Munyungo Jackson, Bill Summers – 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

References