Embers and Ashes

Not to be confused with Ashes and Embers, Ashes to Embers, Ashes of Embers, or Embers in Ashes.

Embers and Ashes
Studio album by Shirley Horn
Released	1960 (1960)
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	52:54
Label	Stere-O-Craft
Producer	Buddy Smith
Shirley Horn chronology
Embers and Ashes (1960) Shirley Horn Live at the Village Vanguard (1961)
Singles from Embers and Ashes
"Wild Is the Wind"

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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

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 - double bass on "Day by Day"
• Herbie Lovelle – drums
• Harry T. "Stump" Saunders - drums on "Day by Day"

References

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.

External links

• Embers and Ashes at Discogs (list of releases)