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";

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

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

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

References[edit]

^ 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[edit]

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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Discography
Studio albums	Embers and Ashes (1960) Loads of Love (1962) Shirley Horn with Horns (1963) Travelin' Light (1965) Where Are You Going (1972) A Lazy Afternoon (1978) All of Me (1987) Softly (1988) Close Enough for Love (1989) You Won't Forget Me (1991) Here's to Life (1992) Light Out of Darkness (A Tribute to Ray Charles) (1993) The Main Ingredient (1996) Loving You (1997) I Remember Miles (1998) You're My Thrill (2001) May the Music Never End (2003)
Live albums	All Night Long (1981) Violets for Your Furs (1981) The Garden of the Blues (1984) I Thought About You (1987) I Love You, Paris (1994) Live at the 4 Queens (2016)
Compilation albums	But Beautiful: The Best of Shirley Horn (2005)
Soundtracks	For Love of Ivy (1968)
With others	Cat on a Hot Fiddle (Stuff Smith, 1959) Sarah: Dedicated to You (Carmen McRae, 1991) The Art of the Song (Charlie Haden, 1999) A Tribute to Oscar Peterson – Live at the Town Hall (1996)