No one but no one could make a ballad pierce your soul like Ms Horn. Her phrasing is exquisite. She moves me in ways that no other singer ever has. This is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. Ms Horn of course, does it justice. A masterpiece.

Shirley Horn was one of the greatest that never received her dues. I love her music! Thank you for posting.

Buy the cd, get comfortable, turn the lights off, forget the world, and let this music wash over you.

When she sings, the bottom falls out from underneath you and leaves you floating.

No matter how many renditions of this song I hear, Shirley Horn's is absolutely perfect. She made it life's most beautiful serenade.

Other singers who sing this ballad sound as if they really have to work hard to interpret this difficult song. Shirley Horn just sits there and sings her heart in the most effortless and elegant way. She's supremely talented. She knows exactly how to do a slow ballad like this one. Joe Williams with George Shearing version is marvellous but I listen to Shirley for her emotional honesty and sensibility.

One of the most beautifully moving songs in the "American Songbook" sung by one of our most sensitive singers. Shirley Horn, a REAL artist.

I am a devout Sarah Vaughan fan. But I heard this on a local jazz station last night and just had to look it up so I could hear it again. Perfect blend of music, vocals, and expression. Another great performance that has inspired me!

You know it's great if you get chills and tears...Shirley delivers it.

Shirley Horn was one of those rare singers who could bring lyrics to life. Here, she emotes ev’ry emotion of the lyrics with her intonation and inflection and pauses. I miss you, Ms. Horn. Here’s to life, here’s to you…wherever you are ❤️

I saw one of her last performances at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2005. She was in a wheelchair but still wonderful! She is missed dearly!

"Here's To Life" is a Masterpiece. Produced and arranged by the brilliant Johnny Mandel. One of my all time favorite recordings. :-))) Nobody sings this better than Shirley.

I miss u grandma. This song was played at her funeral

No words describe the emotions felt. Perfection.

I love when a "live" performance is as good as the studio version. Shows what a true artist Shirley Horn was and what a great conductor John Williams was. A true collaboration of great musical talents. Not to mention the fact that this is a terrific song, well written and orchestrated.

Beyond flawless......................This song still makes me cry................

OH this song...I was at my neighbor's memorial service last night and this song was on when I started my drive home. Here's to Life, because we never know when our time is up. Enjoy every day.

Parents , introduce your children to music of yesterday, they'll be richer for the experience. This song by Shirley Horn and Joe Williams I would like to recommend.

This Song, Here's To Life, is one of my All Time Favorites. The very first time I heard this song years ago I had to pull off the highway just to listen. I got the pleasure to see Shirley Horn perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Magnificent. I miss her too.

one of the most heart-rending songs of the unique Shirley Horn

It doesn't get better than this.

Shirley Horn!!!!!,...and Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Nancy Wilson, Astrud Gilberto, Etta James, Gloria Lynne, Dinah Washington, Esther Phillips, Nina Simone, Marlena Shawn, Betty Carter, Billie Holiday, Blossom Dearie, Anita O'Day.

This song, "Here's to Life" was Shirley's signature song. BEAUTIFUL!! She is such a super-star, a treasure, and with the Boston Pops -- you can't get much better than this! Extraordinary! As a musician myself, I don't know why I didn't know about her earlier in my life, I guess because I'm West Coast and she was mostly East Coast and the world. She has a voice like NO OTHER! I'm completely infatuated with her! Great musician and gifted talent, that's for certain. "Here's to Life" must be one of the most beautiful songs ever, b/c the lyrics are so up-lifting, and Shirley sings it like no other can! I've never heard this song before, so I listened to others sing it; I'd say it belongs to Shirley! And we understand she was a great lady and beautiful person also.

Autotune? no thanks, playback? no thanks, dancers behind? no thanks. Just let Shirley sing, she always capture the audience.

Absolutely beautiful Jonny Mandel’s arrangement for her beautiful voice and deep lylics!

What a PHENOMENAL artist. I love Shirley Horn!!!

Always brings tears to my eyes. One of the ALL TIME GREAT Jazz Ballads and Jazz Ballad performances. Flawless and astoundingly beautiful!!!

November, 2021....washing my face by tears....wow....song for life... So deep, so meaningful, so touching... Thank you, darling! ♥️

My new theme song on life ! Classic .... Thank you Shirley..

Love this song, so beautiful and each word is perfectly placed and delivered. I could listen to this over and over and never tire of it's beauty.

In my opinion, best version ever ….. What a grace to being able to watch this …. she owns that song!

Why I'm crying?

Lyrics of this song are SPIRITUAL... performance by Shirley Horn and John Williams orchestra is wonderful

"Here's to Life" a kind of pharmakon, a real balm in her voice that I learned to admire over the years. Shirley Horn and the magnificent song, lyric 'poetry' of stunning simplicity.

So beautiful and touching, she's like silk. Awesome!

Beyond WORDS. One in a row.... SHIRLEY. God bless.

That french horn solo with the mordant up to high concert G - - gets my every time. Johnny Mandel arrangement. Rockin' arrangement, rockin' players on it. And John Williams conducting!! Bravo to all! Shirley Horn and this song got me through some rough times.

I saw Shirley many times at the Village Vanguard and she was always spectacular

I was very ballsy and very lucky to sit with Ms. Horne when she was having dinner between sets at Jazz Alley in Seattle, back when anybody could sit down without being escorted away. She told me she had been a single mom and stopped singing until start singing until her daughter was grown. And here she was performing on the road, around this time frame. I was also a teacher and single mom and aspiring singer. She was very kind to share with me.

Ah life!! I received the "best" of everything so far!! I am certain i have not seen the truly "best" that is waiting for me! My three children are the "best" I have experienced in my 81 years!!!

Shirley, you are amazing! Listening in November 2021, WOW! What a song!

been listening to this swan album since the mid 90's....you know something? with each passing year, something happens...or doesn't happen... that places me back in front of shirley as a reminder to hope for the best. here i am once again. thank you Lady. "may all your storms be weathered and all that's good get better..."

man man man, this song got me through some tough tough times. eyes get watery every time

I'm speechless. What could I say the is worthy of that performance.

This truly is a hidden masterpiece that I feel never got mainstream? I've been around this kind of music my whole life and until last year, never knew this beautiful recording existed. I agree with the others that no one sings this like Shirley, No One. This is my theme song of Life and I listen to it daily....

As long as I am in the game, I want to play. Here's to life, here's to love, here's to you, Shirley.

SO GLORIOUS...and her best album...THANKS FOR POSTING, and thank you most of all...Shirley Horn :-)

...Some words, if I may, regarding a singularly unique Human Being...This piece of music, from any reasonable perspective, is perfect...There are times when humans attain perfection...not often...This is certainly one of those lovely times...The lyrics and arrangement can leave one breathless...Then the voice of this majestic lady reaches you...As if an angel had walked into the room...The voice calms, awakens, suggests, comforts and gives hope...She excudes the experience of Life...One can intuitively sense that she has had her share (if there is such a partitution) of happiness, sadness, joy, misery and enchantment...Simply from this aspect, the ear, heart and mind reach out to her voice...My respect knows no limit...I readily admit my sadness in her absence...Yet...Her voice remains...What she would be doing today is only speculation...Nevertheless...It would, I am certain, be dauntingly beautiful...I was blessed with her presence...And I am at a loss with her absence...Sail on Lovely Lady..."...Sometimes I need only to stand...Wherever I am...To be blessed..." James Patrick Casey/1LT./Infantry/United States Army(Ret.)/Vietnam Combat Veteran/Badly Wounded In Action/Late Spring '68/Quang Tin Province/I Corps/RVN...

The pauses at the end of this song adds so much more meaning. Incredible!!!

Just ...music! I am totally lost in this dream...

I miss her so much...Such great music that she brought to us here on earth.... A great lady!!!!!

I love this song. Brings me so much peace in the moment

Wow, my father was a great jazz artist and I thought I heard all the great artist of that generation but never hearing her until a year ago? I'm taken away by her song, "Here's to Life" my favorite all time version of a great song.. We all relate to the words and her Voice just magnifies its beauty!! Wow...

So cinematic. A story told, the listener allowed it peer into the life of the singer but for a moment. My absolute favorite song and arrangement, ever!

this is the one song I will have at my funeral ! ..it says everything to everyone

MANY RETURNS OF THE DAY

At the time she was suffering from a severe form of arthiritis and yet the way she sings this song is simply amazing, Nowawadays no one can write such meaningful lyrics and can perform like SH.

I love her so much.

Absolutely beautiful! I want this song sung at my funeral for my family see how happy I was!!!

It doesn’t get any better than this ❤

For the joy you brought, "Here's to life".

Superb. Perfection. Brilliance

Beautiful song/lyrics sung by Shirley Horn, she sings it effortlessly.

Thank you for sharing Shirley ❤️ here's to you 🙌🏾🌺

The song just seeps in to your soul!

I love her's . Joe Williams & Mary Wilson's takes on this song

This women is the ultimate. Completely stunning!!! Perfection.....

Amazing!!! I am blown away!! THANK YOU!!! cheers from Canada ❤😊

I have listened to other renditions of this song, but the only one that inevitably brings tears to my eyes is Shirley Horn's. The quintessence of feeling in singing.

Just listened to Joe Williams doing the same song; 2 wonderful singers putting their own wonderful stylings and voices on a wonderful song.

For me, Miss Horns' way of interpreting a song--the way she lets the notes of a song breathe through her if only now through recordings is therapy(dare I say, cure) for my addiction to the expedient pace of humanity especially in America.

Here's to LIFE!!

flawless..

One night,1960, my date and I dropped into the Brass Rail in Washinton D.C. and there was Shirley sitting at the piano.There were no more than a dozen lucky people in the room. If there was the least chatter in the room she would not play. I sat there mesmerized. Have been a fan ever since. One of the best at interpreting lyrics. Try "Where Do You Start" for looking back on past loves that haunt your memory or "How Do You Keep The Music Playing" in recognizing that person you thought of just as a friend is a love you can't be without.

i just watched Patti LaBelle sing this and i wanted to hear Ms Horn's version Ms.Horn is in a league of her own there's no one that can TOUCH her I've been transported back in time to the days when i was just a little girl reading on the couch while my Daddy listen to his Jazz and had a little smile in his glass smoking his Pall Malls

Here's to you Shirley Horn! Happy Birthday! You are so missed and you were so wonderful!!

Just her voice brings me to tears

The joy and pain of a life as interpreted by the legendary Ms. Shirley Horn.

What a marvelous performance wonderful music even better lyrics and Shirley Horn is magnificent in this rendition of this incomparable piece. I have heard other version of this song, but this is the best version I have ever heard of it.

wondeful woman, wonderful voice..................

Such a wonderful song, an amazing artist... Pure magic!

Beautiful! I was lucky to see Shirley perform at the Cinegrill at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

Simply Perfect.

Just so Beautiful🥰❤️🔥

Song of the year!!

I love the way Ms. Horn sang this song, the depth of interpretation that she brought to it and I admire Artie Butler for writing such a wonderful song....

That’s one of my favorite songs in the universe and each time she sings it, I cry. I sang it at my best friend’s funeral. Shirley Horn sings it so beautifully.

Simply beautiful...

When I was with my ex wife and it has been 25 long years since we separated sadly, She absolutely loved this song, at the time I used to play a lot of jazz which she hated but she did really love this , most likely she would have forgotten but the song says it all about her positive attributes, In case by chance you read this Olivia I miss you

When music was good and easy to love.

I could not agree more with Art Allen. This CD is just gorgeous and her version of ' A time for love' - another Johnny Mandel classic composition and arrangement - is so beautiful.

Only Joe Williams can this equally! One of the most beautiful songs ever…

It does not get better than this....... this is how you sing and deliver a song!!! wow..... love you for ever shirley

No one else can touch her version.

Il y a de ces chansons qui font du bien...les écouter, dans le calme complet.... et vivre les paroles

BEST SONG EVER. ALWAYS LOVED YOU BARBARA. RIP.

Seeing this live version was truly outstanding. Thanks so much for posting.

I lived in the same community as Shirley Horn and never knew it until my mother told me that she lived around the corner from where we lived I was in shock about that but you see that little area of the world created so many interesting people who are the leaders of today in Washington DC

such a beauty. In love for ever

The only time I can really breathe! Thank you Shirley