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Torchy/Blue Moon by Carmen McRae released in 1999. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Decca DL-8267. Carmen McRae chronology. By Special Request. (1955) Torchy! (1956) Blue Moon. (1957) Torchy! is a 1956 album by jazz singer Carmen McRae arranged by Jack Pleis and Ralph Burns.
- December 16, 29 & 30, 1955, New York
- Vocal jazz
- 1956
- Decca DL-8267
Blue Moon is an album by jazz singer Carmen McRae, released on Decca Records in 1956. Content. Allmusic critic Scott Yanow gave the album four out of five stars, stating: Much of the music on this excellent (but obscure) Carmen McRae LP has not been reissued, and certainly not in complete form.
- 35:52
- 1956
- Ken Druker
- Jazz
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1999 CD release of "Torchy & Blue Moon" on Discogs.
- Early Life and Education
- Early Career
- Chicago Interlude
- Return to New York
- Performances
- Death
- Discography
- Filmography
- Further Reading
- External Links
McRae was born in Harlem, New York City, United States. Her father, Osmond, and mother, Evadne (Gayle) McRae, were immigrants from Jamaica. She began studying piano when she was eight, and the music of jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington filled her home. When she was 17 years old, she met singer Billie Holiday. As a teenager McRa...
In her late teens and early twenties, McRae played piano at Minton's Playhouse, sang as a chorus girl, and worked as a secretary. It was at Minton's where she met trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, bassist Oscar Pettiford, and drummer Kenny Clarke, had her first important job as a pianist with Benny Carter's big band (1944), worked with Count Basie (1944) ...
In 1948, she moved to Chicago with comedian and impressionist George Kirby, with whom she had fallen in love. At the end of the relationship, she worked as a pianist and singer at the Archway Lounge. She played piano steadily for almost four years at a number of clubs in Chicago before returning to New York in 1952. In Chicago she developed her own...
Back in New York in the early 1950s, McRae got the record contract that launched her career. She was voted best new female vocalist of 1954 by DownBeat magazine. MacRae married twice: to drummer Kenny Clarke from 1944 to 1956, though they separated in 1948; and to bassist Ike Isaacs from 1956 to 1967.Both marriages ended in divorce. Among her most ...
McRae sang in jazz clubs throughout the United States—and across the world—for more than fifty years. She was a popular performer at the Monterey Jazz Festival (1961–63, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1982), performing with Duke Ellington's orchestra at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 1980, singing "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", and at the Montreux Jazz Festiv...
On November 10, 1994, McRae died at her home in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 74. She had fallen into a semi-coma four days earlier, a month after being hospitalized for a stroke.
A Foggy Day with Carmen McCrae(Stardust, 1953)Carmen McRae (Bethlehem, 1955)By Special Request (Decca, 1956)Films
1. 1955: The Square Jungle- Herself 2. 1960: The Subterraneans- Herself 3. 1967: Hotel 4. 1985: McRae's rendition of You Took Advantage of Me backed the title credit sequence of Real Genius 5. 1986: Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Television
1. 1976: Soul 2. 1976: Sammy and Company 3. 1979: Carmen McRae in Concert 4. 1979: Roots: The Next Generations 5. 1980: From Jumpstreet 6. 1981: At the Palace 7. 1981: Billie Holiday. A Tribute 8. 1982: L. A. Jazz
Bauer, William R. (1987). Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press. ISBN 978-0-47-206791-6.Gourse, Leslie (2000). Carmen McRae: Miss Jazz. New York: Billboard Books. ISBN 978-0-8230-7904-9.Carmen McRae discography at DiscogsCarmen McRae at IMDbListen to Carmen Mac Rae / Torchy / Blue Moon on Spotify. Carmen McRae · Compilation · 2012 · 36 songs.
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