Carmen McRae - Classics (2024)

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Artist: Carmen McRae
Title: Classics
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 3:54:12
Total Size: 1.26 GB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. The Sound of Silence (03:01)
2. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good (03:27)
3. Stardust (04:05)
4. I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life (03:23)
5. Breakfast in Bed (03:18)
6. The Meaning of the Blues (02:49)
7. More Today Than Yesterday (03:06)
8. I'm Lost (02:53)
9. When Sunny Gets Blue (03:50)
10. Can You Tell (02:14)
11. Got to Get You into My Life (02:37)
12. I Sold My Heart to the Junkman (03:43)
13. Silent Spring (03:05)
14. It's Not Going That Way (03:00)
15. Ghost of Yesterday (03:09)
16. Come Live With Me (02:10)
17. If You Could See Me Now (02:52)
18. I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know (03:36)
19. Ask any Woman (03:00)
20. Here's That Rainy Day (02:44)
21. Boy, Do I Have a Surprise for You (03:25)
22. Herbie Mann – Live for Life (02:46)
23. My Very Own Person (02:58)
24. Come Sunday (02:40)
25. Just a Dream Ago (03:15)
26. I Didn't Know What Time It Was (03:52)
27. Sunday (07:05)
28. Don't Talk (02:56)
29. If You Could Love Me (02:08)
30. I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do (04:33)
31. Didn't We (03:20)
32. I Have the Feeling I've Been Here Before (05:19)
33. What'cha Gonna Do (03:35)
34. Walking Happy (02:40)
35. My Heart Reminds Me (02:30)
36. When You Get Around to Me (02:57)
37. I Just Wasn't Made for These (02:56)
38. Wonder Why (02:13)
39. Don't Go Away (02:16)
40. What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry? (04:10)
41. Carry That Weight (02:48)
42. Watch What Happens (02:35)
43. Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most (06:21)
44. I Love the Life I Live (02:30)
45. Goodbye Joe (02:36)
46. Second Chance (03:37)
47. Worlds of Time (02:35)
48. How Did He Look? (03:08)
49. Day By Day (02:28)
50. Until It's Time for You to Go (03:03)
51. Gloomy Sunday (04:05)
52. Poor Butterfly (02:19)
53. Just a Little Lovin' (02:12)
54. The Folks Who Live on the Hill (04:27)
55. If the Moon Turns Green (03:32)
56. Miss Brown to You (04:04)
57. Elusive Butterfly (03:02)
58. I Thought I Knew You Well (03:56)
59. Something (03:07)
60. MacArthur Park (04:01)
61. You're a Weaver of Dreams (02:59)
62. Flying (02:36)
63. I Want You (02:22)
64. Loads of Love (03:58)
65. Dream of Life (05:04)
66. Here There and Everywhere (02:36)
67. For All We Know (03:26)
68. Our Song (03:08)
69. I'm Always Drunk in San Francisco (03:04)
70. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry (03:36)
71. A Song for You (04:47)

Carmen McRae always had a nice voice (if not on the impossible level of an Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan) but it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and ironic interpretations of lyrics that made her most memorable. She studied piano early on and had her first important job singing with Benny Carter's big band (1944), but it would be another decade before her career had really gained much momentum. McRae married and divorced Kenny Clarke in the '40s, worked with Count Basie (briefly) and Mercer Ellington (1946-1947), and became the intermission singer and pianist at several New York clubs. In 1954 she began to record as a leader' and by then she had absorbed the influences of Billie Holiday and bebop into her own style. McRae would record pretty steadily up to 1989 and, although her voice was higher in the '50s and her phrasing would be even more laid-back in later years, her general style and approach did not change much through the decades. Championed in the '50s by Ralph Gleason, McRae was fairly popular throughout her career. Among her most interesting recording projects were participating in Dave Brubeck's the Real Ambassadors with Louis Armstrong, cutting an album of live duets with Betty Carter, being accompanied by Dave Brubeck and George Shearing, and closing her career with brilliant tributes to Thelonious Monk and Sarah Vaughan. Carmen McRae, who refused to quit smoking, was forced to retire in 1991 due to emphysema. She recorded for many labels including Bethlehem, Decca (1954-1958), Kapp, Columbia, Mainstream, Focus, Atlantic (1967-1970), Black Lion, Groove Merchant, Catalyst, Blue Note, Buddah, Concord, and Novus. © Scott Yanow

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