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Released
  
March 21, 1995

Length
  
52:02

An Evening with Lena Horne (1994)
  
Being Myself (1998)

Release date
  
21 March 1995

Genre
  
Vocal jazz

Recorded
  
September 19, 1994

Label
  
Blue Note

Artist
  
Lena Horne

Producer
  
Michael Cuscuna

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Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album

Similar
  
Being Myself, Seasons of a Life, We'll Be Together Again, Lena Horne at the Sands, Lena on the Blue Side

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An Evening with Lena Horne is a 1994 live album by Lena Horne.

Contents

At the 38th Grammy Awards, Horne's performance on this album won her the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance.

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Track listing

  1. "I Come Runnin'" (Roc Hillman) – 3:08
  2. "Maybe" (Billy Strayhorn) – 2:47
  3. "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 4:56
  4. "Old Friend" (Stephen Sondheim) – 3:13
  5. "Something to Live For" (Duke Ellington, Strayhorn) – 5:12
  6. "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Ellington, Irving Mills) – 1:11
  7. "Squeeze Me" (Fats Waller, Clarence Williams) – 1:20
  8. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Ellington, Bob Russell) – 4:21
  9. "Yesterday, When I Was Young" (Charles Aznavour, Herbert Kretzmer) – 5:45
  10. "How's Your Romance?" (Cole Porter) – 1:50
  11. "Why Shouldn't I?" (Porter) – 2:56
  12. "Ours" (Porter) – 2:50
  13. "Just One of Those Things" (Porter) – 3:27
  14. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 1:24
  15. "Watch What Happens" (Norman Gimbel, Michel Legrand) – 3:36
  16. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:04

Performance

  • Lena Horne – vocals
  • Mike Renzi - synthesizer, piano, musical director
  • Rodney Jones - guitar
  • Ben Brown - double bass
  • Akira Tana - drums
  • The Count Basie Orchestra:
  • Clarence Banks - trombone
  • Bill Hughes
  • Mel Wanzo
  • Danny Turner - flute, alto saxophone
  • Kenny King - flute, tenor saxophone
  • John Williams - baritone saxophone
  • Doug Miller
  • Bob Ojeda - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Michael Williams

    • Production

  • Michael Cuscuna - producer
  • Sherman Sneed
  • Larry Walsh - mastering
  • John Harris - engineer, remixing

    • Songs

    1Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man3:09
    2The Man I Love3:15
    3I Feel So Smoochie2:51

    References

    An Evening with Lena Horne Wikipedia
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