But Beautiful: The Best of Shirley Horn

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  • Shirley Horn With Horns
  • Loads of Love
  • Travelin' Light
  • A Lazy Afternoon
  • All Night Long
  • Violets for Your Furs
  • At Northsea
  • Garden of the Blues
  • Softly
  • I Thought About You
  • Close Enough for Love
  • You Won't Forget Me
  • I Love You, Paris
  • Here's to Life
  • Light out of Darkness (A Tribute to Ray Charles)
  • The Main Ingredient
  • Loving You
  • I Remember Miles
  • You're My Thrill
  • May the Music Never End
  • Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz With Guest Shirley Horn
  • Live at the Four Queens

Release Date

October 11, 2005

Duration

01:03:01

Genre

Styles

Recording Date

January, 2005
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But Beautiful: The Best of Shirley Horn

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When vocalist/pianist Shirley Horn resurfaced after a long spell away from the recording studio and signed with Verve Records in 1987, the jazz world at large discovered what many of Horn's devoted followers already knew: that she is a huge talent and one of the great jazz singers to follow in the footsteps of legends like Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday. On her records for Verve, Horn never dazzles with flawless technique or stunning vocal tricks. Instead, she enthralls the listener with her intimate delivery and her understated yet almost visceral emotional power. Since that first record in 1987, she has released a string of good-to-excellent records, and But Beautiful: The Best of Shirley Horn on Verve compiles some of the finest moments from them, including the lovely "You Won't Forget About Me," which features Miles Davis on trumpet, maybe the best take on "Fever" since Peggy Lee's, the achingly slow and torchy "But Beautiful," and the lightly swinging "Come and Dance with Me," a track that shows that while Horn's main strength is ballads she also can swing like nobody's biz. The disc also gives a tiny taste of Horn's '60s sound with the inclusion of "The Great City" from 1963's Shirley Horn with Horns and has three bonus tracks recorded live in 2005 with a tight combo that show Horn has a surplus of style and class.

Track Listing

Sample Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
Harold Adamson / Jimmy McHugh
Shirley Horn 02:27 Amazon
2
Kermit Goell / Fred Spielman
Shirley Horn 07:10 Amazon
3
Eddy Arnold / Cindy Walker
Shirley Horn 02:58 Amazon
4
Curtis Lewis
Shirley Horn 02:05
5
Eddie Cooley / John Davenport
Shirley Horn 04:45 Amazon
6
Marguerite Monnot / Geoffrey Parsons
Shirley Horn 06:04
7
Johnny Mandel / Paul Francis Webster
Shirley Horn 06:45
8
Sammy Cahn / James Van Heusen
Shirley Horn 02:51 Amazon
9
Alan Bergman / Michael Keith / Lew Spence
Shirley Horn 04:53
10
Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen
Shirley Horn 04:42 Amazon
11
Artie Butler / Phyllis Molinary
Shirley Horn 05:37 Amazon
12
Billy Eckstine / Duke Henderson / Earl Hines
Shirley Horn 04:54
13
Richard Rodgers
Shirley Horn 03:07 Amazon
14
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
Shirley Horn 04:43 Amazon
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