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Shirley Horn Album of the Year and Jazz Artist of the Year, and spent seventeen weeks on native Washing- A Billboard's jazz chart. She has subsequently tonian, Shirley released Light Out ofDarkness (A Tribute to was born in Horn Ray Charles) and / Love You Paris, recorded into a house- 1934 in one night in March 1992 at Paris's famed hold where love Theatre du Chatelet, with Charles Abies on of music was bass and Steve Williams on drums. actively encour- aged by her moth- er. She studied Joe Henderson composition at <3&- ^JHHB With his latest and was awarded a scholarship to the Juil- MM tttffi release, Double liard School. Unable to cover her living s Rainbow (Verve), expenses, she returned to Washington to Grammy-winning resume her musical training at Howard. In tenor saxophonist 1960, at the behest of , Ms. Horn Joe Henderson traveled to New York to be the opening act pays tribute to the for his stint at the . During late Brazilian this time she also released such albums as composer Antonio , , Shirley Horn Carlos Jobim. The

with Horns, and Travelin ' Light, and per- new recording is formed on the soundtracks to For Love of Ivy the third in Mr. Henderson's highly ac- and A Dandy in Aspic. Soon claimed series of composer songbooks, joined the voices championing her mastery, which also includes Lush Life: The Music of but, by the mid-' 60s, Ms. Horn had reset- Billy Strayhorn and So Near, So Far (Musings tled in Washington for a lengthy, self- for Miles). Since signing with the Verve label imposed exile to raise her daughter. Her three years ago, Joe Henderson has resurgence came in the 1980s with the sign- received Grammy awards for Best Jazz ing of a Verve contract and subsequent live Instrumental Solo for Lush Life and two recording. The next three years brought Grammy awards (for Best Jazz Instrumental more acclaim for Ms. Horn and such record- Solo and Best Jazz performance, Small ings as / Thought About You, Close Enough for Group) for So Near, So Far. He was named Love, and You Won't Forget Me (notable for Billboard's #1 Jazz Artist in 1993, and Lush the appearance of her mentor, Miles Davis, Life was selected as one of the best records for being her first Billboard #1 , and for gar- of the last ten years in CD Review's tenth- nering her first Grammy nomination). In anniversary issue. For two consecutive years 1992, Shirley Horn recorded Here's to Life, he won the triple crown (#1 Tenor Saxo- her tour deforce collaboration with Johnny phonist, #1 Jazz Artist, and #1 Jazz Album) Mandel, which earned her Billboard's 1992 in the Downbeat readers' and critics' polls.