November Girl

Reception

The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden stated "The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band didn't record too often with vocalists, so this meeting with Carmen McRae had a lot of potential. McRae was likely seeing most of these songs for the first take at the recording sessions, since almost all are originals written by the bandmembers. She's game and does her best, but several tracks are badly dated by Boland's insistence upon using an inferior electric piano, whereas no piano at all on these performances would have sounded far better. ...This is a good session that could have been far better without the cheesy electronics".

Track listing

All compositions by Jimmy Woode except where noted.

1. "November Girl" (Jimmy Woode, Francy Boland) – 4:36
2. "Just Give Me Time" (Boland) – 2:22
3. "'Tis Autumn" (Henry Nemo) – 4:24
4. "A Handful of Soul" (Dusko Gojkovic, Woode) – 4:09
5. "Dear Death" - 4:18
6. "I Don't Want Nothing from Nobody" (Woode, Kenny Clarke) – 4:25
7. "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 4:05
8. "My Kind of World" - 3:13
9. "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" (Steve Allen) – 2:36 Bonus track on CD reissue

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