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The Great American Songbook is a 1972 live album by Carmen McRae, accompanied by a jazz quartet including Jimmy Rowles and Joe Pass. [1] McRae was a great fan of Rowles and described him in the liner notes to the album as "the guy every girl singer in her right mind would like to work with". [2] Rowles's humorous country and western song, "The ...
Carmen McRae nahm privat Klavierunterricht und begann schon sehr früh, eigene Songs zu schreiben. Im New Yorker Apollo Theater gewann sie einen Amateurwettbewerb. Einer ihrer Songs, „Dream of Life“, geriet über Teddy Wilson in die Hände von Billie Holiday , die ihn Anfang der 1940er Jahre aufnahm.
1939–1991. Internet-rolprentdatabasis -profiel. Carmen McRae (8 April 1920 – 10 November 1994) was 'n Amerikaanse aktrise. Sy was bekend vir haar rolle in die rolprente The Square Jungle (1955), Hotel (1967), Real Genius (1985), en Excess Baggage (1997).
McRae is featured on three of the ten songs, "Summertime", "My Man's Gone Now" and the only duet, "I Loves You, Porgy", all three backed by an orchestra directed by Jack Pleis. [1] [2] "The record is piled to the sky with strings, harps, choruses, and pillowy orchestration," writes Tim Sendra on Allmusic, but "credit[s] Sammy and Carmen for holding up their end of the deal."
Tonight Only! is a 1961 album by the Dave Brubeck Quartet featuring the singer Carmen McRae. [1] This was the first of three albums that Brubeck and McRae would make together, they would later work on Take Five Live (1961) and The Real Ambassadors (1962). Brubeck praised McRae's lyrical interpretations of his songs, later stating that "Carmen ...
The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album four stars and said that "Portrait of Carmen doesn't so much update the great Carmen McRae's sound and sensibility as it reflects a world that's finally caught up to her way of thinking, capitalizing on the irony and sophistication so long essential to her music to create a record that is both fiercely individual and universally accessible.
Larry Clothier. Carmen McRae chronology. Carmen Sings Monk. (1988) Sarah: Dedicated to You. (1991) Sarah: Dedicated to You is a 1991 studio album by Carmen McRae, with the Shirley Horn trio. The album was recorded in tribute to McRae's friend and fellow jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, and was McRae's last recording. [1]
