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
Released1960 (1960)
GenreVocal jazz
Length52:54
LabelStere-O-Craft
ProducerBuddy 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"
Professional ratings
Review scores
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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]

  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.