Live At the 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival

Performer: Shirley Horn
Engineer: Ron Davis; Bud Spangler...
Producer: Bud Spangler...
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Shirley Horn (vocals, piano); Charles Ables (bass instrument); Steve "Syco Steve" Williams (drums); Steve Williams (drum). Liner Note Author: Dan Ouellette. Recording information: Monterey Jazz Festival (09/18/1994). Authors: Tim "T-Bone" Jackson; Jason Olaine. Photographer: Andy Nozaka. Jazz singer and pianist Shirley Horn achieved a measure of fame and success later in her career, but it was well-deserved, as this LIVE disc attests. Horn's voice had a slightly husky, dusky, seen-it-all quality, and her piano playing is succinct, gently surging, and blues-hued. Backed only by a bassist and drummer, Horn holds the audience in the palm of her hand with her intimate renditions of a healthy variety of material, as she beautifully reconstructs songs by Burt Bacharach and Leon Russell, along with some choice standards and rare gems.

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.

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