But Beautiful: The Best of Shirley Horn on Verve

Performer: Shirley Horn
Artist: Wynton Marsalis; Roy Hargrove; Harvey Mason
Engineer: Valery Gamarnik; Joel Moss...
Producer: Shirley Horn; Jason Olaine; Shirley Horn; Allan Tucker (Compilation)...
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Shirley Horn (vocals, piano); Shirley Horn; George Mesterhazy (guitar); Buck Hill (saxophone); Roy Hargove (trumpet); Richard Todd (French horn); Steve "Syco Steve" Williams (drums); Miles Davis, Roy Hargrove, Wynton Marsalis (trumpet); Alan Broadbent (piano); Harvey Mason, Sr. (percussion). Audio Mixer: Joel Moss . Recording information: Au Bar, New York, NY (01/2005). Photographer: Larry Busacca. Arrangers: Johnny Mandel; Thad Jones. In the late 1980s, Shirley Horn returned to recording by signing with Verve and releasing a series of excellent albums in the classic vocal jazz mold. This impressive compilation brings together the highlights from her Verve releases through the mid-2000s. Horn has a voice of great focus and expressiveness, which seems--surprisingly--to have improved with age. Whether on the easy jive of "Come and Dance with Me," her sensual take on "Fever," or the beautiful "You Won't Forget Me" (which features Miles Davis on trumpet), BUT BEAUTIFUL: THE BEST OF SHIRLEY HORN overflows with the artist's charms. Three bonus tracks, recorded live in 2005, round out this set of modern-day treasures.

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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