Female vocalists have forever been celebrated by audiophiles and music lovers alike. Whether the delivery is delicate or bombastic, a great female vocal well-recorded is just so sensuous. It's the genre that most often typifies the potential of hi-fi and what it can do to engage our emotions. It's no wonder the hallways of any hi-fi show will be resonating with the sounds of sparsely-arranged recordings of great women singers. It's the genre that best shows off the systems that manufacturers and dealers are trying to sell. Now, you can have all of those best demo tracks on one album. Show stoppers by Julie London, Diana Krall, Rickie Lee Jones, Nina Simone, Janis Ian, Phoebe Snow, Jennifer Warnes, Dusty Springfield, Shelby Lynne and many more. Every single track is an audiophile demo classic.

'Nuff Said! Is an album by Jazz singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. In 1969, the album was placed on peak 44 in R&B Albums Chart. The album received an Emmy nomination and featured one of Nina's biggest hits in Europe: "Ain't Got No, I Got Life". On the album are great songs like "In The Morning", "Please Read Me", "Gin House Blouse", and "Take My Hand, Precious Lord". It was recorded (excluding tracks 1, 8, 11) at Westbury Music Fair on April 7, 1968. This was three days after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King. The whole program that night was dedicated in his memory.

Recorded in 1985 after a break from recording and time spent living in Barbados and Liberia, Nina’s Back features a rejuvenated Nina Simone reaching out to a wider musical audience. Featuring a number of memorable original Simone compositions, the band includes horns and backup singers for a recording that’s unique in Nina’s catalog.

Nina Simone recorded the title track, originally popularized by Johnny Mathis, twice: it appears on her 1959 live album and again on this 1966 release. David Bowie's mid-1970s cover version was inspired by the rendition on this album and was recorded after Bowie met Simone. Also includes one of Simone's signature tunes, the stereotype-fighting Four Women, her only original number on this album. An anthem for the Civil Rights movement, the single was banned upon release by a New York jazz radio station due to what was considered controversial lyrical content at the time.

One of Nina Simone's classics from her days at Philips, this 1965 album includes three songs that have come to be closely identified with her: Ne me quitte pas by Jacques Brel, Feeling Good and the title track, a cover of the Screamin' Jay Hawkins song, which became a successful R&B single for her. In fact Simone was so closely associated with the song she chose to use the same title for her 1990 autobiography.

Little Girl Blue is an artistic statement by jazz virtuoso Nina Simone that reinvents a wide variety of compositions. Simone's combination of classical training, smoky-alto vocal delivery and the influence of modern jazz make her a novel and inspiring jazz singer and instrumentalist.

An essential collection for Simone completists, containing four songs left over from her career-launching debut album "Little Girl Blue". This album was released in 1959 without Simone's knowledge after she left Bethlehem Records. Reappearing here from the debut is Simone's only charting single "I Loves You, Porgy", a Billboard Top 20 hit. Simone shares time on this album equally with "her friends" Chris Connor and Carmen McRae who each contribute four songs.

"Just Like A Woman" is Barb Jungr's hymn to the late, great Nina Simone. This beautiful, haunting album combines Barb's compelling arrangements and resolute delivery to bring a fresh perspective on songs associated with her heroine Nina Simone.

"Little Girl Blue" is an artistic statement by jazz virtuoso Nina Simone that reinvents a wide variety of compositions. Simone's combination of classical training, smoky-alto vocal delivery and the influence of modern jazz make her a novel and inspiring jazz singer and instrumentalist.

This compilation features the songs performed by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, and many more…

The Iron Man: The Musical by Pete Townshend, released in 1989, is an adaptation of Ted Hughes' story The Iron Man, produced and largely composed and performed by Pete Townshend of The Who. It also stars Roger Daltrey, Deborah Conway, John Lee Hooker, and Nina Simone. The three then-surviving members of The Who (Daltrey, John Entwistle, and Townshend) performed as a group in two songs, "Dig" and "Fire", although the latter was not penned by Townshend. A stage version was mounted at the Young Vic theatre in London in 1993. On the strength of this, Warner Bros. optioned the story for a movie which, with a very different adaptation of the story, became The Iron Giant; Townshend received an Executive Producer credit.

Nina Simone is accompanied on this classic 1967 release by a large orchestra, arranged and led by Hal Mooney. Neither strictly jazz nor soul, the material here is eclectic as Simone interprets these covers in her inimitable style. The album also includes two original songs, the sparse and intimate "Come Ye" featuring Simone accompanied by nothing but percussion and the centerpiece track, "Take Me To The Water".

After an uncharacteristic (for her) four-year hiatus from recording, Nina Simone returned to the fringes of the pop world with "Baltimore", the only album she recorded for the CTI label. While it bears some of the musical stylings of the period - light reggae inflections that hint of Steely Dan's "Haitian Divorce" - the vocals are unmistakably Simone's.

Verve's "Finest Hour" collection of Nina Simone's work compiles 60 minutes of career highlights, including 'Wild Is the Wind', 'I Put a Spell on You', 'Four Women', 'I Loves You, Porgy', and 'My Baby Just Cares for Me'. Though it's by no means a definitive compilation of Simone's music, it does provide a welcome overview of her Verve years.

"Pastel Blues" is Nina Simone’s 1965 seminal masterwork. The diversified outing is a smooth blend of blues, jazz, soul and folk. The renowned vocalist dazzles on the piano and is joined by Al Schackman (guitar, harmonica), Rudy Stevenson (guitar, flute), Lisle Atkinson (bass) and Bobby Hamilton (drums). It reached the Top Ten on Billboard’s Top R&B albums and includes the standouts, “Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out”, “Trouble In Mind” and “Strange Fruit”.