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Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae
Live album by Carmen McRae
Released	July 1971
Recorded	January 1, 1966; November 2, 1965
Genre	Vocal jazz
Label	Mainstream
Producer	Bob Shad
Carmen McRae chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Billboard	^[1]

Carmen McRae is a live album by American singer Carmen McRae, released in 1971 by Mainstream Records. All tracks were recorded during the concert on January 1, 1966, in San Francisco, the only exception was the song "My Ship Is Coming In", recorded on November 2, 1965.

For this album, McRae was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance for the first time.^[2]^[3]

Track listing

"Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 6:15
"Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 4:46
"In My Solitude" (Duke Ellington, Ed DeLange, Irving Mills) – 3:19
"I'm Gonna Laugh You Right out of My Life" (Cy Coleman, Joe McCarthy) – 3:02
"Long Before I Knew You / Just in Time" (Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Jule Styne) – 6:02
"Round Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Cootie Williams, Thelonious Monk) – 4:42
"I Got It Bad and that Ain't Good" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 3:16
"My Ship Is Coming In" (Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill) – 3:14

Personnel

Carmen McRae — vocals
Victor Sproles – bass
Stuart Martin – drums
Norman Simmons – piano

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.^[4]

References

^ "Album Reviews". Billboard. Vol. 83, no. 23. New York: Billboard Publications Inc. June 5, 1971. p. 38. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved October 13, 2024.
^ "Final NARAS Grammy Nominations for 1971" (PDF). Cash Box. Vol. XXXIII, no. 33. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. February 5, 1972. p. 37. ISSN 0008-7289. Retrieved October 13, 2024. Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist: Carmen McRae – Carmen McRae (Mainstream)
^ "Carmen McRae". Grammy Awards. Retrieved October 13, 2024.
^ McRae, Carmen (1971). Carmen McRae (liner notes). US: Mainstream Records. MRL 309.