Shirley Horn

Horn, who died in 2005, was a jazz singer and pianist whose style's watchword is "intimacy."Her vocal manner is akin to Miles Davis' trumpet style: not technically flashy, but definitively setting the song's mood.Indeed, it was Davis who discovered Horn in 1960 and who became an admirer despite his well-known dislike of vocalists generally.Horn was never a big record-seller, but she was well-respected by her peers.