Embers and Ashes

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Embers and Ashes
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Studio album by
Released1960 (1960)
Genre Vocal jazz
Length52:54
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
  1. "Wild Is the Wind"
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Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [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]

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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.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Like Someone in Love"2:27
2."He Never Mentioned Love" Curtis Reginald Lewis 3:59
3."Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise"3:21
4."I Thought About You"
2:58
5."Mountain Greenery"2:11
6."God Bless the Child"3:35
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Blue City"Lewis3:30
2."Day by Day"2:30
3."If I Should Lose You"3:15
4."Wild Is the Wind"3:37
5."Come Rain or Come Shine"
 
6."Just in Time"2:05

Personnel

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