Shirley Horn - Close Enough for Love
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Artist: Shirley HornEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- Beautiful Friendship
- I Got Lost In His Arms
- Baby, Baby All The Time
- Close Enough For Love
- This Can't Be Love1
- I Wanna Be Loved
- Come Fly With Me
- Once I Loved
- But Beautiful
- Get Out Of Town
- Memories Of You
- It Could Happen To You
- So I Love You
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Free Music Review: Shirley the Storyteller
Hit: 5 Stars
After listening to this superb album a couple of times, I was struck by this epiphany:
There are jazz singers out there with better voices and better intonation. But nobody--and I do mean nobody--is a better story teller than the late, great Shirley Horn.
Listen to what she does to "But Beautiful", just for example. Has the story ever been told so exactly, so straightforwardly, as this? Not to my ears--and I've heard a few renditions of it by good to great singers.
Or listen to track 6, "I Want to Be Loved." This is the best rendition of middle-aged romantic love I've ever heard--and that includes a lot of covers of "Second Time Around." When Ms. Horn sings, "I Want to Act My Age, I'm Past the Stage of Turtle-Dovin'", she sounds absolutely authentic.
Or listen to how she covers "Come Fly With Me." Again, I've heard good to great singers do this Sinatra signature tune (including, of course, Sinatra). But I never got all of the words from anybody. Until now. And then, upon relisten, I realize--it's not that Ms. Horn overenunciates. She most certainly does not. It's that she knows how to phrase. She knows how to tell the story. Up there, the air is rarified--it's not "rare--air--air--i--fied." Now I know what the song is saying, and what it means.
I could go on, but you get the point. With so many fledgling and not-so-fledgling singers who pump out albums of standards from the Great American Songbook, all should take a careful listen to the master here. This is how it's done. This is how you breathe new life into these old bottles. RC
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