SHIRLEY HORN - But Beautiful (The Best Of Shirley Horn) (2005) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

When vocalist/pianist Shirley Horn resurfaced after a long spell away from the recording studio and signed with Verve Records in 1987, the jazz world at large discovered what many of Horn's devoted followers already knew: that she is a huge talent and one of the great jazz singers to follow in the footsteps of legends like Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday. On her records for Verve, Horn never dazzles with flawless technique or stunning vocal tricks. Instead, she enthralls the listener with her intimate delivery and her understated yet almost visceral emotional power. Since that first record in 1987, she has released a string of good-to-excellent records, and But Beautiful: The Best of Shirley Horn on Verve compiles some of the finest moments from them, including the lovely "You Won't Forget About Me," which features Miles Davis on trumpet, maybe the best take on "Fever" since Peggy Lee's, the achingly slow and torchy "But Beautiful," and the lightly swinging "Come and Dance with Me," a track that shows that while Horn's main strength is ballads she also can swing like nobody's biz. The disc also gives a tiny taste of Horn's '60s sound with the inclusion of "The Great City" from 1963's Shirley Horn with Horns and has three bonus tracks recorded live in 2005 with a tight combo that show Horn has a surplus of style and class. by Tim Sendra  
Tracklist :
1     I Just Found Out About Love 2:37
Harold Adamson / Jimmy McHugh
2     You Won't Forget Me 7:10
Kermit Goell / Fred Spielman
3     You Don't Know Me 2:58
Eddy Arnold / Cindy Walker
4     The Great City 2:05
Curtis Lewis
5     Fever 4:45
Eddie Cooley / John Davenport
6     If You Love Me 6:04
Marguerite Monnot / Geoffrey Parsons
7     A Time for Love 6:45
Johnny Mandel / Paul Francis Webster
8     Come Dance with Me 2:51
Sammy Cahn / James Van Heusen
9     Nice 'N' Easy 4:53
Alan Bergman / Michael Keith / Lew Spence
10     But Beautiful 4:42
Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen
11     Here's to Life 5:37
Artie Butler / Phyllis Molinary
12     Jelly, Jelly 4:54
Billy Eckstine / Duke Henderson / Earl Hines
13     Loads of Love 3:07
Richard Rodgers
14     I Didn't Know What Time It Was 4:43
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers