Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
1. My Funny Valentine ~ Shirley Horn
2. I Fall In Love Too Easily ~ Shirley Horn
3. Summertime ~ Shirley Horn
4. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home ~ Shirley Horn
5. This Hotel ~ Shirley Horn
6. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' ~ Shirley Horn
7. Basin Street Blues ~ Shirley Horn
8. My Man's Gone Now ~ Shirley Horn
9. Blue In Green ~ Shirley Horn
Album Notes and Credits
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Personnel: Shirley Horn (vocals, piano); Roy Hargrove (trumpet, flugelhorn); Toots Thielemans (harmonica); Charles Ables, Ron Carter (bass); Steve Williams, Al Foster (drums). |
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Recorded at Clinton Recording Studios, New York, New York from December 2-5, 1997. |
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I REMEMBER MILES won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. |
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Personnel: Shirley Horn (vocals, piano); Toots Thielemans (harmonica); Buck Hill (tenor saxophone); Roy Hargrove (trumpet, flugelhorn); Steve Williams , Steve Williams , Al Foster (drums). |
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Audio Mixer: Dave Baker . |
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Liner Note Author: Ira Gitler. |
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Recording information: Clinton Recording Studios, New York, NY (12/02/1997-12/05/1997). |
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Illustrator: Miles Davis. |
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Arranger: Shirley Horn. |
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This stunning album is Shirley Horn's loving tribute to her friend and colleague, the legendary late Miles Davis. Davis was so taken by Horn's first album EMBERS AND ASHES that he forced The Village Vanguard to let her virtually-unknown trio open for him during his 1961 run there. Their friendship and admiration for each other's music lasted through the years, and Shirley Horn's 1991 recording YOU WON'T FORGET ME, was one of the last recordings Miles Davis made. |
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Horn selected mostly ballads from Davis' Columbia Records catalogue for her tribute because, as she explains in the liner notes, Davis liked her to sing ballads, and ballads are Horn's specialty. She can slow down time in a unique and spellbinding way. Her sultry and smoky vocals are intimate and conversational, relying on odd metered timing and silence, rather than volume, to make an emotional point. |
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This album's knock out punch is the epic (over 10 minutes long) "My Man's Gone Now" performed in an uncharacteristically (for Horn) abstract style with a double rhythm section and Roy Hargrove wailing and soaring on the trumpet. This may well be one of the greatest tracks Horn ever recorded. |
Producer: Richard Seidel; Shirley Horn |
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Engineer: David Baker; Dave Baker |
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Musical Guests | |
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Roy Hargrove |
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Toots Thielemans |
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Ron Carter |
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Al Foster |
Artist Overview
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.
Artist Contemporaries
Abbey Lincoln | Andy Bey | Carmen McRae | Carol Sloane | Chris Connor (Vocals) | Ernestine Anderson | Irene Kral | Jon Hendricks | Julie London | June Christy | Lee Wiley | Lorez Alexandria | Nina Simone | Pearl Bailey | Rosemary Clooney | Sarah Vaughan | Sidsel Endresen | Teri Thornton
Abbey Lincoln | Andy Bey | Carmen McRae | Carol Sloane | Chris Connor (Vocals) | Ernestine Anderson | Irene Kral | Jon Hendricks | Julie London | June Christy | Lee Wiley | Lorez Alexandria | Nina Simone | Pearl Bailey | Rosemary Clooney | Sarah Vaughan | Sidsel Endresen | Teri Thornton
Compilation Appearances
Associated Artists and Works
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Thielemans, Toots |
Technical Info
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Release Date : 06/09/1998 |
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Original Release Date : 1998 |
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Catalog ID : 5571992 |
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Label : Verve |
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Number of Discs : 1 |
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Studio/Live : Studio |
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Mono/Stereo : Stereo |
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SPAR Code : n/a |
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UPC : 00731455719925 |
