Embers and Ashes

Embers and Ashes
Embers and Ashes
Studio album by Shirley Horn
Released	1960
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	52:54
Label	Stere-O-Craft
Producer	Buddy Smith
Shirley Horn chronology
Singles from Embers and Ashes
	"Wild Is the Wind";

Embers and Ashes is the debut studio album by jazz vocalist and pianist Shirley Horn, released in 1960 by Stere-O-Craft Records.^[4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz	^[3]

In the same year, the album fell into the hands of trumpeter Miles Davis, who invited Horn to perform with him at the Village Vanguard jazz club,^[5] setting the club's management a condition: either he would perform with Horn, or he would not at all.^[6] After the performance, Horn was noticed and offered to sign a contract by representatives of Mercury Records.^[7]

Track listing

Side A
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Like Someone in Love"	Jimmy Van Heusen Johnny Burke	2:27
2.	"He Never Mentioned Love"	Curtis Reginald Lewis	3:59
3.	"Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise"	Sigmund Romberg Oscar Hammerstein II	3:21
4.	"I Thought About You"	Van Heusen Johnny Mercer	2:58
5.	"Mountain Greenery"	Richard Rodgers Lorenz Hart	2:11
6.	"God Bless the Child"	Arthur Herzog, Jr. Billie Holiday	3:35

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Blue City"	Lewis	3:30
2.	"Day by Day"	Axel Stordahl Paul Weston Sammy Cahn	2:30
3.	"If I Should Lose You"	Leo Robin Ralph Rainger	3:15
4.	"Wild Is the Wind"	Dmitri Tiomkin Ned Washington	3:37
5.	"Come Rain or Come Shine"	Harold Arlen Mercer
6.	"Just in Time"	Jule Styne Betty Comden Adolph Green	2:05

Personnel

Shirley Horn – vocals
Joe Benjamin – double bass
Lewis Packer
Herbie Lovelle – drums
Harry T. "Stump" Saunders

References

^ Embers and Ashes at AllMusic. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
^ Larkin, Colin (2011). "Horn, Shirley". Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9781561592371.
^ Larkin, Colin (2004). "Horn, Shirley". The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin. p. 424. ISBN 9781852271831.
^ Davis, John S. (2020). "Horn, Shirley Valerie". Historical Dictionary of Jazz. Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 200. ISBN 9781538128152.
^ Feather, Leonard; Gitler, Ira (2007). "Horn, Shirley". The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, US. p. 330. ISBN 9780195320008.
^ Jackson, Maurice; Ruble, Blair A., eds. (2018). "The Beautiful Struggle". DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC (Illustrated ed.). Georgetown University Press. p. 121. ISBN 9781626165908.
^ Holland, Bill (November 5, 2005). "Jazz Great Shirley Horn, 71". Billboard. Vol. 117, no. 45. p. 79. ISSN 0006-2510.

External links

Embers and Ashes at Discogs (list of releases)

[AllMusic-1] Embers and Ashes at AllMusic. Retrieved June 9, 2023.

[2] Larkin, Colin (2011). "Horn, Shirley". Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9781561592371.

[3] Larkin, Colin (2004). "Horn, Shirley". The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin. p. 424. ISBN 9781852271831.

[4] Davis, John S. (2020). "Horn, Shirley Valerie". Historical Dictionary of Jazz. Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 200. ISBN 9781538128152.

[5] Feather, Leonard; Gitler, Ira (2007). "Horn, Shirley". The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, US. p. 330. ISBN 9780195320008.

[6] Jackson, Maurice; Ruble, Blair A., eds. (2018). "The Beautiful Struggle". DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC (Illustrated ed.). Georgetown University Press. p. 121. ISBN 9781626165908.

[7] Holland, Bill (November 5, 2005). "Jazz Great Shirley Horn, 71". Billboard. Vol. 117, no. 45. p. 79. ISSN 0006-2510.

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