Take Five Live
1962 live album by Carmen McRae
Take Five Live | ||||
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Live album by Carmen McRae | ||||
Released | 1962 | |||
Recorded | September 6, 1961, Basin Street East, New York City | |||
Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
Length | 37:17 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
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Take Five Live is a 1962 live album by American jazz singer Carmen McRae with pianist Dave Brubeck, focusing on interpretations of his songs. This was McRae's second album with Brubeck; their first, Tonight Only with the Dave Brubeck Quartet, was released in 1961.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Dave Brubeck and Iola Brubeck; except where indicated
- "When I Was Young"
- "In Your Own Sweet Way"
- "Too Young for Growing Old"
- "Ode to a Cowboy"
- "There'll Be No Tomorrow"
- "Melanctha" (D. Brubeck, Liz Blake)
- "It's a Raggy Waltz" (D. Brubeck)
- "Oh So Blue" (D. Brubeck)
- "Lord, Lord"
- "Travellin' Blues"
- "Take Five" (Paul Desmond, I. Brubeck)
- "Easy as You Go"
Personnel
- Carmen McRae - vocals
(except Paul Desmond - alto saxophone)
References
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albums
- A Foggy Day with Carmen McRae
- Carmen McRae
- By Special Request
- Torchy
- Blue Moon
- After Glow
- Mad About the Man
- Carmen for Cool Ones
- Birds of a Feather
- Book of Ballads
- When You're Away
- Something to Swing About
- Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics
- Something Wonderful
- For Once in My Life
- Portrait of Carmen
- The Sound of Silence
- Just a Little Lovin'
- November Girl
- It Takes a Whole Lot of Human Feeling
- Ms. Jazz
- Can't Hide Love
- I'm Coming Home Again
- Heat Wave
- You're Lookin' at Me (A Collection of Nat King Cole Songs)
- Any Old Time
- Carmen Sings Monk
- Sarah: Dedicated to You
albums
- Boy Meets Girl with Sammy Davis Jr.
- Porgy and Bess with Sammy Davis Jr.
- Two for the Road with George Shearing
- The Carmen McRae – Betty Carter Duets
albums
- Tonight Only!
- Carmen McRae in London
- Take Five Live
- Live at Sugar Hill
- Woman Talk
- The Great American Songbook
- At the Great American Music Hall
- Recorded Live at Bubba's
- Fine and Mellow: Live at Birdland West
- Performing Music from The Subterraneans
- The Real Ambassadors
- Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport