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Here's To Life: Shirley Horn With Strings (CD)

By: Shirley Horn (Artist)

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Shirley Horn Artist Snapshot:

Despite the encouragement of Miles Davis and Quincy Jones early in her career, jazz pianist and singer Shirley Horn stuck around the Washington, D.C., area and raised a family, playing the local clubs all throughout the '70s. In the early-`80's however, Horn was recorded first by the European SteepleChase label, then by Verve, and her career finally began to take off. Horn's graceful keyboard style is class personified, and ballads are her vocal specialty. She eventually received seven Grammy nominations, won an award for the Davis tribute I REMEMBER MILES, and was inducted into the Lionel Hampton Hall of Fame in 1996. Despite being ill with diabetes in later years, Horn performed and recorded until her death in 2005.

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DISC 1 for Here's To Life: Shirley Horn With Strings (CD) Album By Shirley Horn (Artist)
1   Here's To Life
2   Come A Little Closer / Wild Is The Wind
3   How Am I To Know?
4   Time For Love, A
5   Where Do You Start?
6   You're Nearer
7   Return To Paradise
8   Isn't It A Pity?
9   Quietly There
10   If You Love Me
11   Summer (Estate)
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (6/19/92, p.73) - "..a dreamy, late-night affair...As both a vocalist of subtle graces and a pianist who knows the beauty of economy, Horn wows with understatement.." - Rating: A
Down Beat (7/92, p.38) - 5 Stars - Excellent - "..It gushes softly, elegantly...everything here is fresh, as if sung and played for the first time...affirms Shirley Horn as today's premier ballad stylist.."
Jazziz (Dec.-Jan./92, p.94) - Picked by critic Leonard Feather as one of the 10 best jazz albums of 1992.

Title Note

Personnel: Shirley Horn (vocals, piano); Wynton Marsalis (trumpet); Charles Ables (bass instrument); Steve Williams (drums); Johnny Mandel.

Recording information: Clinton Recording Studios, New York, New York; Group IV Recording, Hollywood, California.

Sometimes the most effective backdrop for a spare, "minimalist" singer is a lush orchestral arrangement with strings. The problem is that there aren't too many arrangers left who can write in the old romantic, melodic style. One exception to the rule is composer Johnny Mandel, the man who scored Jimmy Scott's major comeback ALL THE WAY and, most recently, Diana Krall's WHEN I LOOK INTO YOUR EYES. Mandel's greatest triumph, however, is also Shirlrey Horn's best album, HERE'S TO LIFE, the only one of her many sessions that really captures the flaming romanticism lurking beneath that deceptively economical vocal technique.

Horn has a wealth of material to work with, gems like Billie Holiday's "How am I to Know?," with lyrics by Dorothy Parker, all dressed up in bossa nova style, and Edith Piaf's anthemic "If You Love Me." There is Mandel's own lovely "A Time for Love," as well as two by the great film composer Diimtri Tiomkin, "Wild is the Wind" and "Return to Paradise." The titles alone conjure up a heady, get-away-from-it-all atmosphere, one that enables Horn to justify her reputation as a major artist.

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