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Carmen McRae - Carmen McRae's Finest Hour











Artist Carmen McRae


Album Carmen McRae's Finest Hour


Rating 4 Stars


Release Date Sep 12, 2000


Recording Date Jun 14, 1955-Mar 10, 1959


Label Verve


Type Compilation


Genre Jazz Vocals, bop scat, bebop


Codec: Flac 1.2.1;  Level 6 


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Format:  Flac Image Track


Size Torrent: 261 Mb


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Personnel 


	


Jimmy Cleveland - trombone


Art Farmer - trumpet


Carmen McRae - vocals, piano


Wendell Marshall - bass


Buddy Collette - alto saxophone, flute


Charlie Shavers


Joe Benjamin


Ralph Burns


Ike Isaacs


Don Abney


Dick Katz - piano


Charlie Smith


Dave Lambert Singers


Tadd Dameron


Specs Wright


Luther Henderson - conductor


Frank Hunter


Jack Pleis Orchestra





Also: Jimmy Cobb, Phil Woods, Ben Webster, Billy Strayhorn, Al Cohn, Mundell Lowe, Ray Bryant, Sammy Davis, Jr.





1.	I Was Doing All Right


2.	How Long Has This Been Going On


3.	Namely You


4.	Dream of Life


5.	Eagle and Me, The


6.	Do You Know Why


7.	Whatever Lola Wants


8.	When Your Lover Has Gone


9.	Weak For the Man


10.	Mad About the Boy  


11.	Love Is a Simple Thing


12.	I Wants to Stay Here (A.K.A. I Loves You, Porgy) - (with Sammy Davis Jr.)


13.	Baltimore Oriole  


14.	Invitation


15.	Something to Live For


16.	Midnight Sun


17.	Georgia Rose  


18.	Love Is Here to Stay


19.	Perdido





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Bio





Even almost a decade after her death in 1994, Carmen McRae remains an institution unto herself. Born in Harlem, she studied piano as a child and her parents encouraged her to go classical, but the world of jazz and what she called the Great American Songbook was beckoning. For a time she also wrote songs, and as a teenager she came to the attention of one of the power couples of the jazz world, piano star Teddy Wilson and composer Irene Kitchings Wilson. Through their influence, one of McRae’s early songs, "Dream of Life", was recorded by Teddy Wilson’s longtime collaborator Billie Holiday.





Unfortunately, this early success did not immediately lead to a career as writer or performer. By the late Forties she was well known among the young modern jazz musicians who gathered at Minton’s, Harlem’s most famous inside after-hours joint, but her talent seemed doomed not to reach out beyond that world until 1953. It was while working in Brooklyn that she happened to come to the attention of a tiny independent record label, and thankfully the records she made for that concern happened to fall on the ears of Decca’s Milt Gabler, one of the great talent scouts in the history of jazz.





Her five-year association with Decca (and its brother label, Kapp Records) served both to make her a bona fide singing star and to yield what would ultimately prove to be the most consistently excellent series of recordings of her entire forty-year career. These twelve LPs, indeed, rank among the greatest vocal records of all time. McRae is simultaneously cool and cutting-edge sharp, relaxed and swinging, putting over all manner of material in all manner of settings. These range from trios (none better than that led by pianist Ray Bryant on After Glow) or her own piano (By Special Request) to swinging big bands (led by Tadd Dameron on Blue Moon, Ralph Burns on Torchy, or Ernie Wilkins on Something to Swing About), a full-sized string orchestra (Book of Ballads, When You’re Away), and experimental jazz groups boasting such unusual accoutrements as accordion (By Special Request) and cello (Carmen for Cool Ones). She also tackles such unusual subjects for a jazz singer as, on Mad About the Man, the songs of Noël Coward, and, on Birds of a Feather, songs about our feathered friends.





This isn’t to imply that the remaining thirty years of her recording career were anything less than wonderful. As the years wore on, she developed an increasingly world-weary attitude in her singing. Contrastingly, the freshness and vitality of these, her earliest notable recordings, is remarkable. These tracks announced the coming of a major new artist, one whose light would be hidden under a bushel no more, and nearly fifty years later they retain their power.











review





Carmen McRae was simply one of the giants of jazz singing, with a distinctive sound and phrasing, superb intonation, and rare harmonic imagination. She also had a unique gift for presenting a lyric, whether conveying depths of feeling or sheer playfulness. This CD is drawn from McRae's first sustained period of recording, her Decca work from 1955 to 1959. It demonstrates her emotional range, from the ebullient high spirits of "Namely You" and "Love Is a Simple Thing" to the lightly bittersweet balladry of "Do You Know Why?" and the passion of "Mad About the Boy." The accompaniments here include several big bands and string sections, and McRae is well served by a collection of arrangers highlighted by Tadd Dameron, Ernie Wilkins, and Ralph Burns. More-intimate small groups include superb contributions from pianist Ray Bryant and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, while "Something to Live For" has the composer, Billy Strayhorn, at the piano.
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