A Single Woman (album)

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

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."

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