"I’ve chosen Shirley Horn’s Here’s To Life - Shirley Horn with Strings - it is in my estimation the most beautiful vocal album that's ever been made - maybe any kind of album.

Johnny Mandel did the arrangements and they are exquisite.

Her phrasing, her voice her understanding of a story and a lyric - they move me to tears every time - I'm just touched beyond words.

It's sheer beauty - it’s just sheer beauty from beginning to end and to me it's everything that music is supposed to be.

The pace is so slow and yet it never feels long you know - it's like someone takes you by the hand and says 'let's go walk by a beautiful stream - and that's what you do, you take this beautiful slow walk with this woman who knows life inside and out.

The depth of her soul comes out and the beauty of her soul and the beauty again of the music comes out - it's just exquisite.

I never tire of it - ever."

Jeanne Pisano: Hollywood, CA, May 2013

Shirley Horn: Here's To Life 1992

ONE LP PORTRAITS: MUSICIANS: G - L: JEANNIE PISANO