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May The Music Never End (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 May The Music Never End (CD) Album By Shirley Horn (Artist)
1   Forget Me
2   If You Go Away
3   Yesterday
4   Take Love Easy
5   Never Let Me Go
6   Watch What Happens
7   Ill Wind
8   Maybe September
9   Everything Must Change
10   This Is All I Ask
11   May The Music Never End
 

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Review

Q (11/03, p.113) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Horn remains one of jazz's great song interpreters....Remarkable..."
CMJ (6/30/03, p.31) - "...Singer Shirley Horn has a way of unhurriedly working through ballads, using comfortable silences as innuendo..."
JazzTimes (8/03, p.118) - "...Shimmeringly transcendent....There's a wry smile in her voice as she navigates a choppy sub-current of surviving. Nowhere is this more masterfully evident than on Paul McCartney's 'Yesterday'..."

Title Note

Personnel: Shirley Horn (vocals); George Masterhazy (piano); Ed Howard (bass); Steve Williams (drums).

Additional personnel: Roy Hargrove (flugelhorn); Ahmad Jamal (piano).

Recorded at The Hit Factory, New York, New York on February 3-5, 2003. Includes liner notes by Stanley Crouch.

MAY THE MUSIC NEVER END was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

It is difficult to predict the effect that age will have on the voice of a jazz singer. For some it wears away agility and timbre, but for others it can sweeten, deepen, and weather their instrument in the best way. Fortunately, Shirley Horn falls into the latter category. MAY THE MUSIC NEVER END continues Horn's excellent string of records for Verve, with more of what her fans have come to expect: spare, low-key, late-night ballads brushed and teased by the singer's textured voice.

Horn's soulful delivery and spot-on phrasing spin romantic/melancholic atmospheres on tracks like "If You Go Away" and the breathy, extended and totally heartrending version of "Ill Wind." Pianist Ahmad Jahmal trades subtle touches of phrase with Horn on the lilting "Maybe September," Roy Hargrove's trumpet is showcased on the finger-snapping "Take Love Easy," and Horn herself reclaims the spotlight during a great tempo change-up in "Everything Must Change." But it is the album's title track closer, a duet between Horn and pianist George Mesterhazy, so achingly lovely and poignant that it's likely to break you up on first listen, that demonstrates Horn's true achievement: the total expression of humanity through music. Recommended.

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