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"Five Stars ... Horn's discography is light on live recordings, making Live at the 4 Queens an immediately valuable addition to her recorded oeuvre. It is a spirited recital of nine tunes ... Horn was in excellent health and voice during this period, showing off her ballad prowess ... a masterful performance ... one can never hear enough of unheard Shirley Horn." - All About Jazz "Songs are lucky when Shirley Horn chooses them. She honours melodies just by singing them unadorned, in a voice of honey and smoke; she enunciates every word, shaping small and large peaks with just a slight pause or a lingering vowel ... when the time comes to improvise, the song's emotion guides her; she drapes lyrics in bluesy curves and finds epiphanies in tender phrases." - The New York Times "Four Stars ... hypnotically intimate ... to sing and play piano brilliantly and simultaneously is quite something else. That’s what Shirley Horn did ... contains six typically subtle examples of her interplay between voice and piano, including a gloriously expansive version of the ballad, Lover Man. There are also two instrumentals, which reveal her power as a jazz soloist and her famous rapport with (her trio)." - The Guardian The first previously unreleased music by Shirley Horn in nearly a decade was recorded live at the 4 Queens Hotel in Las Vegas in May 1988 and feature Horn's longtime trio, bassist Charles Ables and drummer Steve Williams. The set was recorded by KNPR radio for a syndicated jazz show and captures the angora-voiced jazz singer and pianist at the very beginning of her resurgence on the jazz scene. Renowned for her inimitable ability to negotiate melodies and lyrics at an exquisitely unhurried pace, Horn applies her unique alchemy to classic and contemporary songs: when she sings a song, she changes the way it's heard forever.