You're My Thrill

You're My Thrill

• HORN SHIRLEY
• JAZZ
• INTERNATIONAL
• MUSIC

On <I>You're My Thrill</I>, vocalist and pianist Shirley Horn teams once again with strings arranger and conductor Johnny Mandel, resulting in yet another spellbinding album that defines romantic ecstasy. Horn's magical ability to imbue the softest utterance with enough emotional poignancy to make a grown man weep is elegantly complemented by Mandel's haunting string arrangements and Horn's longtime trio-mates, bassist Charles Ables and drummer Steve Williams. Songs like "You're My Thrill" and "My Heart Stood Still" find Horn wonderfully capturing the stillness and allure of flickering candlelight. Yet Horn is also friskier on <I>You're My Thrill</I> than on previous albums. If she makes your heart stop on the misty "The Very Thought of You," she'll make your feet tap with joy on her bluesy rendition of "The Best Is Yet to Come" and the sultry "Sharing the Night with the Blues." Here's the stuff that divas are made of. <I>--John Murph</I>