Shirley Horn "Great Women of Song: Shirley Horn" Vinyl, LP, Compilation (2024 Verve Records pressing)
Great Women of Song: Shirley Horn is a 2024 compilation from Verve Records/UMe that gathers nine selections from Shirley Horn’s celebrated late-career recordings, spanning material originally recorded between 1990 and 1995. The album presents Horn as both vocalist and pianist: unhurried, elegant, and deeply expressive, with a style that turns familiar standards into intimate conversations.
Released as part of the Great Women of Song series, the collection highlights Horn’s resurgence on Verve during the 1990s, a period when her restrained phrasing, spacious tempos, and subtle piano accompaniment earned renewed attention from jazz listeners. Rather than functioning as a full career retrospective, the set focuses on a particularly polished chapter of her catalog, emphasizing ballads, blues-inflected standards, and quietly dramatic interpretations.
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