It's been 10 years since this fabulous jazz pianist and singer left us. What are your favorite recordings of hers? Did you ever see her live?
Here's Shirley performing "Fever" for a rapturous audience.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 2, 2015 2:35 AM |
Don't know her.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 2, 2015 2:37 AM |
The queen of understatement. No one quite like her. Never will be.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 2, 2015 3:25 AM |
This very slender thread doesn't surprise me so much, but it does make me a little sad. Shirley Horn was one of the great jazz singer/pianists and never really got her due, though she did have a great third act after a period of semi-obscurity in the seventies.
She could do sexy, somber, and best of all, s l o w - like molasses, with each note like a drop of sweetness to be savored as it poured out.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 2, 2015 11:45 AM |
Shirley Horn slows Burt Bacharach down to a teasing crawl.
I wish I could have seen her in concert. The live recordings are fantastic.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 2, 2015 11:48 AM |
Favorite CD - Here's To Life. Met her at Berklee when I was an undergrad.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 2, 2015 1:44 PM |
Yesterday.
Yeah, everyone has done the Beatles song, but she takes it to another realm as she looks back at the end of her life.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 2, 2015 10:12 PM |
Ooh! I just LOVE "Come Dance With Me (Sugardaddy Remix)" by Shirley Horn which is on the June 2005 Gap In-Store Playlist!
LOVE IT!!!!
"Come on, come on!"
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 17, 2018 10:36 PM |
I also LOVE "Return to Paradise (Mark De Clive-Lowe Remix)" by Shirley Horn which is on the May 2004 Gap In-Store Playlist!
Fantastic!
by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 17, 2018 10:37 PM |
I did see her live in New York in a small club. A friend brought me. I never had heard of her but was blown away. Wonderful. In the back of the club as a possibly inebriated Kathleen Turner. I remember that.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 29, 2020 7:32 PM |
I'm jealous, r12. I never saw her live
by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 29, 2020 7:37 PM |
Sad that this thread only has 13 replies. I had no idea who Shirley Horn was until yesterday. I was listening to a youtube interview with Nikki Harris (Madonna's backup dancer. Apparently Horn is one of Madonna's all-time favorite singers) and wow, I am sad that I missed this until now! I have listeend to Here's to Life several times since yesterday and it's some of the most perfect music I have ever heard. This woman has not gotten the attention she deserves. These days, I'm really starting to listen to jazz instead of rock/pop.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 10, 2021 12:21 AM |
The best.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 10, 2021 12:53 AM |