Nina Simone has always been hard to classify. The "High Priestess of Soul" was trained as a classical pianist, but branched out early into pop, gospel, jazz and blues, playing and singing everyone's compositions and writing many of her own. At 28 years old, she had already been seen in many clubs and recorded several LP's when in 1961-62 she agreed to be filmed, without an audience, in a New York City studio. Selections include: Sunday in Savannah, I'll Look Around, When I Was in My Prime, Zungo (a Nigerian chain gang song taught her by the great drummer Babatunde Olatunji), For All We Know, Strawberry Woman, Crab Man..., (from Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess") I Loves You, Porgy, and some jazz improvisation. NTSC, All Regions. Full Screen 4:3, Dolby 2.0.