Carmen McRae - Can't Hide Love (2018)

01 Oct, 10:39
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Artist: Carmen McRae
Title: Can't Hide Love
Year Of Release: 1976 / 2018
Label: Blue Note
Genre: Jazz, Soul
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 41:04
Total Size: 220 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01 Can't hide love (03:55)
02 The man I love (04:15)
03 Only women bleed (04:57)
04 I wish you well (03:17)
05 All by myself (06:03)
06 Music (03:31)
07 Lost up in loving you (04:48)
08 You're everything (02:59)
09 Would you believe (04:09)
10 A child is born (03:25)

This is the type of session that killed Blue Note the first time around. Carmen McRae gamely tries to interpret unsuitable and inferior pop tunes ("The Man I Love" and "A Child Is Born" are the only exceptions) and is backed by an all-star but faceless orchestra that is given nothing to do. The trumpet section (which includes Buddy Childers, Bobby Shew, Al Aarons, Snooky Young, Oscar Brashear and Blue Mitchell) is not given a single solo. The title cut is quite ludicrous and songs such as "Only Women Bleed" and "I Wish You Well" do not fit McRae's style at all. Pass on this one and get her earlier Deccas or her later Novus releases instead. -- Scott Yanow

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Marc2012
04:01
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The review is way off-base. Carmen's versions of "Can't Hide Love" and "Only Women Bleed" are among the best of each track. Very different from her early traditional recordings but she was more than capable of stretching out into (then-)contemporary material. Lovers of rare groove, funk and jazz-fusion should definitely check it out. And her 'A Child Is Born" is my favorite reading of that song.

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Bradly Briggs
23:05
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Carmen perfection on each extraordinary track making "Can't Hide Love" one of her great recorded works in a brilliant decades long career, luckily went to see Carmen a number of times when this great album came out & seeing these great songs performed live by Carmen thrilling to recall, love playing this tremendous masterpiece often and they don't make them like this anymore, sessions were live with top-flight studio musicians!

orgillian
06:18
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Fortunately Scott Yanow doesn't work with explosives or nuclear material cos he reviews albums when he doesn't know sh*t about music, so who knows how much he would blow up in those other jobs...