Here's to Life

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This article is about the 1992 album. For the 2000 film, see Here's to Life!
Here's to Life
Studio album by
Shirley Horn
Released1992
RecordedSeptember 1991
GenreVocal jazz
LabelVerve
ProducerJohnny Mandel
Shirley Horn chronology
You Won't Forget Me
(1991) 		Here's to Life
(1992) 		Light Out of Darkness (A Tribute to Ray Charles)
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
[2]

Here's to Life is a 1992

Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)[3]
on this album.

The title track "

signature song. The music was written by Artie Butler and the poignant lyrics were written by Phyllis Molinary. The lyric is known, world-wide, as one of her finest works and the song is considered a "modern day jazz standard."[4]

"If You Love Me" is her interpretation of the passionate "

Edith Piaf
.

"Summer" is the first English version of the Italian standard "

Joao Gilberto
's version, which spread the song's worldwide fame.

Track listing

  1. "
    Here's to Life" (Artie Butler
    , Phyllis Molinary) – 5:37
  2. "Come a Little Closer"/"Wild Is the Wind" (John Wallowitch)/(Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 7:27
  3. "How Am I to Know?" (Jack King, Dorothy Parker) – 3:23
  4. "A Time for Love" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) – 6:45
  5. "Where Do You Start?" (
    Marilyn Bergman, Johnny Mandel
    ) – 4:36
  6. "You're Nearer" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:32
  7. "Return to Paradise" (Tiomkin, Washington) – 5:09
  8. "Isn't It a Pity?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:47
  9. "Quietly There" (Morgan Ames, Johnny Mandel) – 6:09
  10. "
    If You Love Me" (Marguerite Monnot, Geoff Parsons
    ) – 6:02
  11. "
    Summer (Estaté)" (Bruno Brighetti, Bruno Martino, Joel E. Siegel
    ) – 7:38

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0
    .
  3. ^ "Winners. 35th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1992)".
  4. ^ Eli Zeger, "Here’s to Life — ‘a meditation for those entering their later years’", Financial Times, September 18, 2018.
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