Latest Release

- DEC 2, 2022
- Let There Be Love
- 14 Songs
- Vocal Encounters · 1962
- Blue Moon · 1956
- Carmen McRae's Finest Hour · 1995
- Book of Ballads · 1959
- Black Legends of Jazz · 1992
- I'll Be Seeing You: A Tribute to Carmen McRae · 1995
- The Most Fabulous Christmas Album Ever · 1965
- Birds of a Feather · 1955
- The Wedding Jazz Album: First Dances · 1957
- 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Carmen McRae · 1992
Essential Albums
- 2017
Appears On
- Various Artists
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
- New York, NY
- BORN
- April 8, 1920