With a uniformly white audience in attendance, Ms. Simone sang unsmiling and diffident versions of "Love Me or Leave Me" and "I LovesYou, Porgy, " which she scored a rare top-40 hit with in 1959.
Simone's collection wisely leaves her signature numbers ("I LovesYou Porgy, " "My Baby Just Cares for Me") unmolested, and gives the rest of the tracks the chill-out treatment.