Of all the major singers of the late 20th century, Nina Simone was one of the hardest tolabel. She recorded extensively in the soul, jazz, and pop and was also comfortable withblues, gospel, and Broadway. She has subsequently been labelled as a 'soul' singer interms of emotion, rather than form. Her repertoire included jazz standards, gospel andspirituals, classical music, folk songs of diverse origin, blues, pop, songs from musicals andopera, African chants as well as her own compositions. This...