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Her piano style was often thumping - even ponderous - a quality she shared with Dave Brubeck (another classically-influenced pianist). But this passion gave a forcefulness to many of her performances: whether an optimistic song like Feeling Good or the sombre Strange Fruit (here performed very histrionically). Her voice was deep and she often used a very wide vibrato, putting songs across with a passion which also found voice in her political activism. However popular she was, and despite her classical training, she was undoubtedly a jazz performer - and a unique one. This album includes such popular hits as I Put a Spell on You and My Baby Just Cares For me but unaccountably omits To Love Somebody, which got into the UK Top Five in 1969. Certainly Simone was the kind of artist who appeals to people who donвЂ™t normally regard themselves as jazz fans.

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She is not even mentioned in some jazz reference books, perhaps for the snobbish reason that some of her singles got into the pop charts and have even been used in TV commercials (but so have those of Louis Armstrong - the subject of theJazzвЂ™s previous release). Nevertheless, this is a good representative selection from the work of a singing pianist who always seemed to be outside the jazz mainstream. Perhaps the CD should have been called theJazz DoesnвЂ™t Play Nina Simone. So it is hardly a propitious time to release an album with this title.

The company that owns the digital radio station вЂњtheJazzвЂќ has announced that the station is closing down at the end of March, barely more than a year since it opened.