11 Songs, 30 Minutes

TITLE TIME
For Once In My Life (LP Version)
2:46
Don't Talk (LP Version)
2:56
Until It's Time for You to Go (LP Version)
3:03
Got to Get You Into My Life (LP Version)
2:37
Our Song (LP Version)
3:08
Come Live With Me (LP Version)
2:10
The Look of Love (LP Version)
3:10
It's Not Going That Way (LP Version)
3:00
I Just Wasn't Made for These (LP Version)
2:56
Worlds of Time (LP Version)
2:35
Flying (LP Version)
2:36
  • 11 Songs, 30 Minutes
  • Released: Apr 10, 1967
  • ℗ 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing.

About Carmen McRae

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

  • ORIGIN
    New York, NY
  • GENRE
    Jazz
  • BORN
    April 8, 1920

Songs

Albums

20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Carmen McRae

2004

Carmen Sings Monk

1988

Duets: Live at the Great American Music Hall

1987

Bittersweet

1964

The Diva Series: Carmen McRae

1991

Carmen McRae's Finest Hour

2000

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