Carmen McRae

Live at Sugar Hill, San Francisco

Stereo Time

Personnel:
Carmen McRae (vcl), Norman Simmons (p), Victor Sproles (b), Stu Martin (d)

Reference: ST 2008

Bar code: 8427328449083

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"Carmen McRae sang with remarkable rhythmic ease and her deft turns-of-phrase helped to conceal a relatively limited range, while her ballad singing revealed enormous emotional depths. Her repertoire included many popular items from the Great American Songbook, but her jazz background ensured that she rarely strayed outside the idiom. Relaxed and unpretentious in performance and dedicated to her craft, McRae secured a place of honour in the history of jazz singing. This album is a labour of love. Carmen McRae loves San Francisco and Sugar Hill. Sugar Hill and San Francisco love Carmen McRae, and as your ears will tell you- the obvious place to record her was in Sugar Hill."

Tracklist

Sample this album

01.

Sunday (John Frederick Coots) 3:19

02.

What Kind of Fool Am I (Leslie Bricuse) 3:56

03.

A Foggy Day (Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin) 1:08

04.

I Left My Heart in San Francisco (George Cory, Douglass Cross) 6:03

05.

I Didnt Know What Time It Was (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) 4:12

06.

Let There Be Love (Lionel Rand, Ian Grant) 3:28

07.

This Is All I Ask (Nat King Cole, Gordon Jenkins) 4:03

08.

Thou Swell (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) 1:05

09.

It Never Entered My Mind (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) 4:28

10.

Make Someone Happy (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) 3:18

Total time: 35:02 min.

Album details

These recordings were originally issued
on LP by Time Records as S/2104 (stereo)

Personnel:
Carmen McRae (vocals), with Norman Simmons (piano), Victor Sproles (bass), and Stu Martin (drums).

Recorded live at the Sugar Hill, San Francisco,
on September 27 & October 13, 1962

Recording engineer: Wally Heider
Mastering engineer: Hal Diepold
Original liner notes: Ralph J. Gleason
Album design: Moskof-Morrison
Cover photography: Group Three

Original sessions supervised by Bob Shad
This CD release produced by Jordi Pujol