CARMEN MCRAE
Vocal Jazz • United States
Jazz music community with review and forums
Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1920 - November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer, considered one of the most important of the 20th century
Carmen McRae was born in Harlem in 1920, and studied piano as a child. As a teenager she came to the attention of Teddy Wilson and his wife, the composer Irene Kitchings Wilson. Through their influence, one of McRae’s early songs, "Dream of Life", was recorded by Wilson’s longtime collaborator Billie Holiday.
By the late 1940s she was well known among the modern jazz musicians who gathered at Minton's Playhouse, Harlem’s most famous jazz club, where she was the intermission pianist. But it was while working in Brooklyn that she came to the attention of Decca’s Milt Gabler. Her five year association with Decca yielded 12 LPs, many considered jazz vocal classics.
Her live 1987 duets with Betty Carter are highly regarded (see Duets: Live
read more...
Thanks to snobb for the updates
CARMEN MCRAE Online Videos
No CARMEN MCRAE online videos available. Search and add one now.
Buy CARMEN MCRAE music
More places to buy jazz & CARMEN MCRAE music
CARMEN MCRAE Discography
CARMEN MCRAE albums / top albums
0.00 |
0 ratings
Torchy!
Vocal Jazz
1955
0.00 |
0 ratings
Alfie
Vocal Jazz
1965
0.00 |
0 ratings
Ms Magic
Vocal Jazz
1971
CARMEN MCRAE EPs & splits
CARMEN MCRAE live albums
_140.jpg)
0.00 |
0 ratings
Alive
Vocal Jazz
1994
CARMEN MCRAE demos, promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs)
CARMEN MCRAE re-issues & compilations
![]()
CARMEN MCRAE singles (0)
CARMEN MCRAE movies (DVD, Blu-Ray or VHS)
CARMEN MCRAE Reviews
No CARMEN MCRAE music reviews posted yet.
CARMEN MCRAE Movies Reviews
No CARMEN MCRAE movie reviews posted yet.
CARMEN MCRAE Shouts
Please login to post a shout
No shouts posted yet. Be the first member to do so above!