Carmen for Cool Ones

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Carmen for Cool Ones
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Studio album by
Carmen McRae
Released1958
RecordedDecember 5, 16, 1957, Los Angeles, California [1]
Genre Vocal jazz, cool jazz
Length36:15
Label Decca DL-8738
Carmen McRae chronology
Mad About the Man
(1958)		Carmen for Cool Ones
(1958)		 Birds of a Feather
(1958)

Carmen for Cool Ones is a 1958 album by jazz singer Carmen McRae, arranged and directed by cellist Fred Katz. [2] [3]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic awarded the album four stars and reviewer Ken Dryden wrote that McRae was on "great form" on the album and particularly praised "All the Things You Are", "What's New?" and a "particularly dark version" of "The Night We Called It a Day". [2]

Track listing

  1. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 2:26
  2. "A Shoulder to Cry On" (Chuck Darwin, Paulette Girard) – 3:53
  3. "Any Old Time" (Artie Shaw) – 3:10
  4. "Weak for the Man" (Jeanne Burns) – 4:08
  5. "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) – 2:29
  6. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) – 2:15
  7. "What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry?" (Walter Donaldson, Abe Lyman) – 1:47
  8. "Without a Word of Warning" (Mack Gordon, Harry Revel) – 3:20
  9. "You Are Mine" (Ted Snyder, Sam Lewis, Joe Young) – 1:55
  10. "If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser) – 3:27
  11. "The Night We Called It a Day" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 4:27
  12. "I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson, Jon Hendricks) – 2:58

Personnel

on tracks 1, 7, 10
on tracks 2, 4, 9 and 12
on tracks 3, 5, 8 and 11
on track 6

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References

  1. ↑ Leslie Gourse (2001). Carmen McRae: Miss Jazz . Billboard Books. p.  132. ISBN   978-0-8230-7904-9.
  2. 1 2 3 "Carmen for Cool Ones". Allmusic . Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Carmen McRae – Carmen for Cool Ones". Discogs .
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