Latest Release
- 12 APR 2024
- 71 Songs
- After Glow · 1957
- The Carmen McRae - Betty Carter Duets (Live At The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco / 1987) · 1987
- 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Carmen McRae · 1993
- 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Carmen McRae · 1958
- Blue Moon · 1956
- Blue Moon · 1956
- Studio Rio Presents: The Brazil Connection · 2014
- Essential Jazz Ballads, Vol. 3 · 1992
- Carmen McRae's Finest Hour · 1995
- Porgy and Bess · 1959
About Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae always had an intriguing, smoky voice but it was her lithe, behind-the-beat phrasing and ironic interpretations of lyrics that made her most memorable. She had her first important job singing with Benny Carter's big band (1944), but it would be another decade before she recorded as a leader, and by then she had absorbed the influences of Billie Holiday and bebop into her own style. Championed in the '50s by Ralph Gleason, Carmen McRae was eventually the recipient of seven Grammy nominations between 1971 and 1990. She retired in 1991.
- HOMETOWN
- Harlem, NY, United States
- BORN
- 8 de abril de 1920
- GENRE
- Jazz