This 16-track compilation was put together by vocalist-pianist Diana Krall as part of Verve's Ultimate series, in which younger artists selected their favorite recordings by influential jazz masters. Krall's tasteful choices draw from Horn's 1980s and '90s releases I Thought About You, Close Enough for Love,You Won't Forget Me, Here's to Life, Light out of Darkness, and I Remember Miles. There are also two selections from her 1963 debut, Loads of Love/Shirley Horn with Horns. Horn's voice sounds lighter and clearer on these tracks, and the stock studio arrangements lack the sparse, fine-tuned phrasing of her trio. But the rudiments of her distinctive style were already in place when she made these early recordings. --Rick Mitchell