Released 1987 Producer Tom Bradshaw Label Verve Records | Length 61:33 (re-issue) Release date 1987 Genres Jazz, Vocal jazz | |
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Recorded January 30 - February 1, 1987, at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA Artists Carmen McRae, Betty Carter Similar Betty Carter albums, Vocal jazz albums | ||
The Carmen McRae-Betty Carter Duets is a 1987 live album of duets by the American jazz singers Betty Carter and Carmen McRae. Originally released on American Music Hall Records, it was reissued in 1996 by Verve under the title Duets: Live at the Great American Music Hall with three previously unreleased tracks by McRae alone.
Contents
Track listing
- "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) – 4:20
- "Stolen Moments" (Oliver Nelson) – 3:36
- "But Beautiful" (Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 5:55
- "Am I Blue?" (Harry Akst, Grant Clarke) – 6:45
- "Glad to Be Unhappy"/"Where or When" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)/(Rodgers, Hart) – 5:33
- "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey, Vincent Youmans) – 7:54
- "Isn't It Romantic?" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:57
- "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) – 3:34
- "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Ellington, Mills) – 6:10
- "I Hear Music" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 2:52
- "Love Dance" (Ivan Lins, Vitor Martins, Paul Williams) – 8:09
- "Old Devil Moon" (Yip Harburg, Lane) – 3:48
Tracks 10-12 not included on original LP release.
Personnel
Songs
1What's New4:22
2Stolen Moments3:39
3But Beautiful5:55
References
The Carmen McRae – Betty Carter Duets Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA