An Evening with Lena Horne

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An Evening with Lena Horne
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Live album by
ReleasedMarch 21, 1995
RecordedSeptember 19, 1994
Genre Vocal jazz
Length52:02
Label Blue Note
Producer Michael Cuscuna, Sherman Sneed
Lena Horne chronology
We'll Be Together Again
(1993)
An Evening with Lena Horne
(1995)
Being Myself
(1998)
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An Evening with Lena Horne is a 1994 live album by Lena Horne. [2]

Contents

At the 38th Grammy Awards, Horne's performance on this album won her the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance.

Track listing

  1. "I Come Runnin'" (Roc Hillman) – 3:08
  2. "Maybe" (Billy Strayhorn) – 2:47
  3. "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 4:56
  4. "Old Friend" (Stephen Sondheim) – 3:13
  5. "Something to Live For" (Duke Ellington, Strayhorn) – 5:12
  6. "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Ellington, Irving Mills) – 1:11
  7. "Squeeze Me" (Fats Waller, Clarence Williams) – 1:20
  8. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Ellington, Bob Russell) – 4:21
  9. "Yesterday, When I Was Young" (Charles Aznavour, Herbert Kretzmer) – 5:45
  10. "How's Your Romance?" (Cole Porter) – 1:50
  11. "Why Shouldn't I?" (Porter) – 2:56
  12. "Ours" (Porter) – 2:50
  13. "Just One of Those Things" (Porter) – 3:27
  14. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 1:24
  15. "Watch What Happens" (Norman Gimbel, Michel Legrand) – 3:36
  16. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:04

Personnel

Performance

Production

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