Embers and Ashes

{{distinguish|Ashes and Embers|Ashes to Embers|Ashes of Embers|Embers in Ashes}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Embers and Ashes

| type = studio

| artist = Shirley Horn

| cover = embershorn.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{start date|1960}}

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Vocal jazz

| length = 52:54

| label = Stere-O-Craft

| producer = Buddy Smith

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = Shirley Horn Live at the Village Vanguard

| next_year = 1961

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Embers and Ashes

| type = studio

| single1 = Wild Is the Wind

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}}

}}{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0001881870|title=Embers and Ashes|access-date=June 9, 2023}}

| rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|chapter=Horn, Shirley|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC|publisher=Omnibus Press|year=2011|isbn=9781561592371}}

| rev3 = The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz

| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|chapter=Horn, Shirley|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz|publisher=Virgin|year=2004|page=424|isbn=9781852271831}}

}}

Embers and Ashes is the debut studio album by jazz vocalist and pianist Shirley Horn, released in 1960 by Stere-O-Craft Records.{{cite book|first=John S.|last=Davis|chapter=Horn, Shirley Valerie|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S_r1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA200|title=Historical Dictionary of Jazz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S_r1DwAAQBAJ|edition=2nd|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2020|page=200|series=Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts|isbn=9781538128152}}

In the same year, the album fell into the hands of trumpeter Miles Davis, who invited Horn to perform with him at the Village Vanguard jazz club,{{cite book|first1=Leonard|last1=Feather|first2=Ira|last2=Gitler|chapter=Horn, Shirley|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4EjDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA330|title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4EjDgAAQBAJ|publisher=Oxford University Press, US|year=2007|page=330|isbn=9780195320008}} setting the club's management a condition: either he would perform with Horn, or he would not at all.{{cite book|chapter=The Beautiful Struggle|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P-VaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA121|title=DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P-VaDwAAQBAJ|editor-last1=Jackson|editor-first1=Maurice|editor-last2=Ruble|editor-first2=Blair A.|edition=Illustrated|publisher=Georgetown University Press|year=2018|page=121|isbn=9781626165908}} After the performance, Horn was noticed and offered to sign a contract by representatives of Mercury Records.{{cite magazine|first=Bill|last=Holland|title=Jazz Great Shirley Horn, 71|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-xQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA79|magazine=Billboard|date=November 5, 2005|volume=117|issue=45|page=79|issn=0006-2510}}