Carmen McRae | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Carmen McRae |
Cover: | Carmen McRae 1954 album.jpeg |
Border: | yes |
Recorded: | October–December 1954[1] |
Genre: | Jazz |
Length: | 36:11 |
Label: | Bethlehem |
Chronology: | Carmen McRae |
Prev Title: | A Foggy Day with Carmen McRae |
Prev Year: | 1953 |
Next Title: | By Special Request |
Next Year: | 1955 |
Carmen McRae is a 1955 album by Jazz singer Carmen McRae. It was McRae's second album and was released on the Bethlehem label exclusively as 10" monoaural LP.[2] The album was reissued on LP in 1976 as The Finest of Carmen McRae: You'd Be So Easy to Love, with an additional track, "Too Much in Love to Care". In 1994 Betlehem had digitally remastered the recordings and released a CD with six additional tracks, alternate takes of songs from the original sessions.
Scott Yanow reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote of it"Overall the music is pleasing but not too memorable and one wishes there were more variety".