Embers and Ashes is the debut studio album by jazz vocalist and pianist Shirley Horn, released in 1961.[1]

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Embers and Ashes
Studio album by Shirley Horn
Released	1961
Recorded	1960
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	52:54
Label	Stereo-Craft Records
Producer	Buddy Smith
Shirley Horn chronology
Embers and Ashes (1961) Shirley Horn Live at the Village Vanguard (1961)

Track listing

1. "Like Someone in Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 2:27
2. "He Never Mentioned Love" (Curtis Reginald Lewis) - 3:59
3. "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 3:21
4. "I Thought About You" (Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer) - 2:58
5. "Mountain Greenery" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:11
6. "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday) - 3:35
7. "Blue City" (Lewis) - 3:30
8. "Day by Day" (Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Sammy Cahn) - 2:30
9. "If I Should Lose You" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) - 3:15
10. "Wild Is the Wind" (Dmitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) - 3:37
11. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Mercer)
12. "Just in Time" (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) - 2:05

Personnel

• Shirley Horn – vocals
• Joe Benjamin – double bass
• Lewis Packer
• Herbie Lovelle – drums
• Harry T. "Stump" Saunders

References

• Shirley Horn discography