Sings monk
Carmen McRae
Sings monk
- Get it straight / Staight, no chaser
- Dear ruby / Ruby, my dear
- It's over now / Well, you needn't
- Monkey's the blues / Blue monk
- You know who / I mean you
- Little butterfly / Pannonica
- Listen to Monk / Rhythm-a-ning
- How I wish / Ask me know
- Man, that was a dream / Monk's dream
- 'Round midnight
- Still we dream / Ugly beauty
- Suddenly / In walked Bud
- Looking back / Reflections
- Suddenly - Alternate version
- Get it straight - Alternate version
- 'Round midnight - Alternate version
- Listen to Monk - Alternate version
- Man, that was a dream - Alternate version
Carmen McRae with the Clarke-Boland Big Band
30/09/2008 : Carmen McRae with the Clarke-Boland Big Band
"The Very Thought of You" Michael Supnick & Russ Little
19/05/2008 : "The Very Thought of You" Jam Session al Gregory's Jazz in Rome, Italy. Michael Supnick (leader and trombone), Francesca Tandoi (piano), Guido Giacomini (bass), Roberto Pistolesi (drums). Very special special guest Russ Little (trombone on right of screen). Check out Russ Little's web site: http://www.russlittle.com/ and Michael's: http://www.michaelsupnick.com Realization and editing by Antonio Parisi adservice@tiscali.it "The Very Thought of You" is a pop standard published in 1934, with music and lyrics by Ray Noble. In addition to Noble's own hit recording of the song with his orchestra, featuring the vocals of Al Bowlly, there was also a popular version recorded that same year by Bing Crosby. A decade later, the song was on the charts again in a version by Vaughn Monroe. Doris Day sang the song in the 1950 movie Young Man with a Horn, a fictional tale partly based on the life of early jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke. In 1961, "The Very Thought of You" was on the charts again ,in a rhythm & blues version recorded by Little Willie John, and three years later a rock and roll version by Ricky Nelson reached #19 on the Billboard chart. There have also been numerous recordings of the song by jazz and pop standards artists, including Frank Sinatra, Nat "King" Cole, Carmen McRae, Billie Holiday, and Elvis Costello; and a blues version on Albert King's Born Under a Bad Sign album. Most recently, Tony Bennett and Sir Paul McCartney recorded a duet version of the song for the former's Grammy-winning 2006 album Duets: An American Classic. An instrumental version of the song is also among the background music in the film Casablanca in the scene where Sascha kisses Rick Blaine on the cheek.
Carmen McRae-I Wish I Were In Love Again-1960s
19/06/2007 : Carmen McRae belting out Rodgers & Hart's "I Wish I Were In Love Again", aided by the superb Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band and an all-too-brief Francy Boland arrangement, during a performance in Germany in the 1960's.
Carmen McRae-Trouble Is A Man-1960's
19/06/2007 : Carmen McRae sings "Trouble Is A Man" in a clip from the 1960's Jazz Casual Show.
Carmen McRae on Jazz Casual-1960's
25/04/2007 : 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 really had much momentum. McRae married and divorced Kenny Clarke in the 1940s, worked with Count Basie (briefly) and Mercer Ellington (1946-47), 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 1950s and her phrasing would be even more laidback in later years, her general style and approach did not change much through the decades. Championed in the 1950s by Ralph Gleason, Carmen 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
09/04/2006 : Carmen McRae Live, Tokyo 1986 Pat Coil (piano) Bob Bowman (bass) Mark Pulice (drums Trombone Page of the World http://www.trombone-usa.com/
