Haven't We Met? Explained

Haven't We Met?
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Carmen McRae
Cover:	Haven't We Met? (Carmen McRae album).png
Released:	^[1]
Recorded:	February 2 and 3, 1965^[2]
Genre:	Vocal jazz
Label:	Mainstream
Prev Title:	Second to None
Prev Year:	1964
Next Title:	Woman Talk
Next Year:	1966

Haven't We Met? is a studio album by American singer Carmen McRae, released in 1965 by Mainstream Records. The arranger and conductor was Don Sebesky.^[3]

Track listing

1. "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" (Lew Brown, Ray Henderson) – 2:50
2. "Who Can I Turn To?" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 3:00
3. "He Loves Me" (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick) – 2:07
4. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) – 3:15
5. "Don't Ever Leave Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 2:37
6. "Gentlemen Friend" (Arnold Horwitt, Richard Lewine) – 2:18
7. "Haven't We Met?" (Kenny Rankin, Ruth Batchelor) – 2:24
8. "It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream" (Don George, Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges) – 2:59
9. "Limehouse Blues" (Douglas Furber, Phillip Braham) – 2:59
10. "I'm Foolin' Myself" (Jack Lawrence, Peter Tinturin) – 3:00
11. "Love Is a Night-Time Thing" (Bob Haymes) – 2:37
12. "Fools and Lovers" (Cliff Adams, Veronica Barnes) – 2:25

Personnel

• Carmen McRae – vocals
• Don Sebesky – arrangement
• Jack Lonshein – artwork
• Arthur Davis, Richard Davis – bass
• Paul Faulise, Tony Studd – bass trombone
• Anthony Sophos, Charles McCracken, George Ricci, Harvey Shapiro – cello
• Ed Shaughnessy, Mel Lewis – drums
• Barry Galbraith – electric guitar, classical guitar
• Bob Arnold – engineering
• Earl Chapin, Jimmy Buffington, Ray Alonge, Dick Berg – French horn
• Margaret Ross – harp
• Hal Diepold – mastering
• Doug Allan, Phil Kraus – percussion
• Norman Simmons – piano
• Charles Mariano, Leon Cohen, Phil Bodner, Stan Webb – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, oboe, flute, alto flute, piccolo flute
• William Watrous, Wayne Andre – trombone
• Bernie Glow, Burt Collins, James Maxwell, Jimmy Nottingham, Mel Davis – trumpet
• Don Butterfield – tuba
• Aaron Rosand, Arnold Eidus, Bernard Eichen, Charles Libove, David Nadien, Gene Orloff, George Ockner, Jack Zayde, Leo Kruczek, Michael Spivakowsky, Raoul Poliakin, Tosha Samaroff – violin

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.^[4]

Notes and References

1. New Album Releases. Billboard. March 27, 1965. 77. 13. 38. 0006-2510.
2. Web site: Carmen McRae - The 1960's. Jazz Discography. August 22, 2006. October 12, 2024.
3. Book: Friedwald, Will. Will Friedwald. Carmen McRae. https://books.google.com/books?id=knox91-De9EC&pg=PA323. A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2010. 322. 9780307379894.
4. Gottlieb. John. Haven't We Met?. Carmen McRae. 1965. liner notes. Mainstream Records. 56044. US.