TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Carmen Mcrae
Carmen Mcrae
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.0368
Carmen Mcrae Album Rankings
1
Carmen McRae, a good friend ofThelonious Monk, sang 13 of his songs (two of which are also heard in different live versions) on this memorable project.
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2
On this popular two-LP set, singer Carmen McRae interprets songs byDuke Ellington,Cole Porter,Michel Legrand,Warren & Dubin,Henry Mancini, andJimmy Van Heusen, among others, but it is her rendition of
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3
One of several CDs that reissue singer Carmen McRae's early Decca recordings, this release draws its material from the 1955 small group albumBy Special Requestand a 1959 record with theErnie WilkinsOr
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4
Instead of reissuing all of singer Carmen McRae's early records for Decca in chronological order, the GRP program has hedged its bets a bit by coming up with highlights from each of her sessions altho
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5
This CD reissues one of Carmen McRae's best recordings of the 1960s. McRae always consideredBillie Holidayto be her primary influence, so a tribute album was a natural project for her.
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6
Much of the music on this excellent (but obscure) Carmen McRae LP has not been reissued, and certainly not in complete form.
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7
This CD reissue has Carmen McRae's first recordings as a leader.
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8
Carmen McRae always considered Billie Holiday to be the most important influence not only on her singing but on her life.
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12
Yes, there's a concept on the loose here -- all the songs are about birds.
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14
In 1999, Concord Jazz launched its Ballad Essentials series with this superb Carmen McRae collection, which spans 1980-1987.
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31
The follow-up to the essential Carmen Sings Monk is a tribute to the recently deceased Sarah Vaughan that ranks at the same very high level.
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37
This is the type of session that killed Blue Note the first time around.
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40
Carmen McRae's charming version of Blossom Dearie's "Hey John" is enough of a reason to search for this album by itself.
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45
These three albums are ample testimony that Atlantic's new Miami-based studios will more than replace their highly praised Muscle Shoals location.
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46
This little-known date, recorded for the Japanese Denon label, features singer Carmen McRae with her regular quartet of the time (pianist Eric Gunnison, bassist Scott Colley, drummer Mark Pulice and
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50
Carmen McRae made many worthwhile albums during her long career, but this session of mostly melancholy ballads never received the exposure it deserved, possibly because it was done for Mort Fega's sm
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54
A slightly misleading title, but very nice.
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56
Verve's 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection: The Best of Carmen McRae collects 12 of the great jazz singer's tracks from the '50s.
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58
Originally on Mainstream, this live session (which has been reissued by Columbia on CD) features the talented singer Carmen McRae at New York's Village Gate with pianist Norman Simmons, bassist Paul
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63
This 1998 CD features singer Carmen McRae late in her career, after recording her notable Thelonious Monk tribute but before cutting her final album, a set of Sarah Vaughan-associated songs.
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64
Recent reissue of early '70s material on the Groove Merchant label. McRae was doing mix of stand
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