{"id":3271,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/lena-horne-being-myself\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"lena-horne-being-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3271","title":{"rendered":"Lena Horne &#8211; Being Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"Left\">  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/beingmyself.jpg\" alt=\"Being Myself\" align=\"Left\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"150\"\/><font size=\"2\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\">Being Myself<\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  Lena Horne<br \/><\/font>  <font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\">(Blue Note &#8211; 1998)<br \/> by Matthew Robinson  <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  &#8220;Come in and join the party,&#8221; Lena calls, slapping her long fingers on an  empty seat. You best take her invitation, \u008ccuz Ms. Horne knows of what she sings.  Long-established as a Jazz legend, Lena Horne continues her reign as queen  of the blue note with her latest BlueNote release. In addition to touching  up personal favorites such as &#8220;As Long As I Live&#8221; (which sparkles as  brightly as when Lena performed it live for her classic concert collection  &#8220;The Lady and Her Music,&#8221; yet with even more snap and sheen), Lena creeps  through &#8220;It&#8217;s Alright With Me&#8221; and clips through &#8220;Willow Weep For Me.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>  Always a lady, Lena opens wide to proclaim &#8220;After You&#8221; and allows a  &#8220;Sleepin&#8217; Bee&#8221; to laze undistrubed while she surveys the musical lansdscape.  Though she may not have the note-holding force of her past, Lena Horne is  still as brassy and clarion bold as her name would dictate. Asking the  musical questions &#8220;What Am I Here For&#8221; and &#8220;How Long Has This Been Going  On,&#8221; Lena simultaneously answers these questions for her listeners: To hear  her sing and for as long as she continues to do so.  <\/p>\n<p>  \u00a9 2001 M. S. Robinson, ARR  <\/font><\/p>\n<p>  \t          <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being Myself Lena Horne (Blue Note &#8211; 1998) by Matthew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}