A Very Special Valentine's Week Performance At The Iridium Jazz Club

Valentines Day Tix will be $40.00, dinner and show $79.00 per person

Shirley Horn is widely regarded as the premiere singing pianist in jazz. Renowned for her inimitable ability to negotiate melodies and lyrics at an exquisitely unhurried pace, her unique vocal alchemy caught the attention of Miles Davis, who is notoriously disdainful of singers, and invited Shirley to open for him in New York City catapulting her into the limelight. After Horn retreated from view for much of the 1970s and 1980s to raise her daughter, she found her fame blossoming anew after her 1987 signing to Verve. In 1990, not long before his death in 1991, Davis added his graceful trumpet phrases to the title track of Horn's You Won't Forget Me. In 1998, Horn paid tribute to her mentor with the brilliant I Remember Miles, for which she won the GRAMMY award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. All in all, Horn has garnered seven consecutive GRAMMY nominations. Shirley Horn is a romantic chanteuse without peer.

Anita O'Day is a jazz vocal diva and jazz legend. She began her singing career during the Swing Era fronting for the Big Bands of Gene Krupa, Woody Herman and Stan Kenton., Her husky voice and blues feeling stood in dramatic contrast to the standard white female vocalist sound of the time. In 1941 “Down Beat" magazine named O'Day “New Star of the Year" and, in 1942, she was selected as one of the top five big band singers. In 1955 Norman Granz signed her to his new Verve label and her debut “This Is Anita" became the very first Verve recording. From 1957 to 1963 she recorded 16 albums for Verve and toured the world playing every major festival with such illustrious musicians as Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, George Shearing and Thelonious Monk. In the 1960s she battled drug and alcohol addition and chronicled her remarkable career and recovery in the brutally honest autobiography High Times, Hard Times. Today Anita is still thrilling audiences with her hard-swinging and exciting voice. As noted jazz vocal critic and author Will Friedwald states “She still has this excitement to her and this spontaneity. She can still turn an audience on."