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Sings Lover Man by Carmen McRae (Record, 2018)

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Carmen McRae - Sings Lover Man & Other Billie Holiday Classics (180g) - With this stunning album, recorded in 1962 and originally released by Columbia, Carmen McRae payed tribute to the great Billie Holiday in the most respectful way possible. The LP is now available on 180-GRAM VINYL. Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London In this stunning LP, Carmen McRae pays homage to her friend and idol, Billie Holiday. With her strong alto, huge range, and ability to change moods, McRae varies her sound throughout, sometimes sounding deliberately gravelly, then switching to softly sweet and romantic, matching the timbre of the instruments accompanying her. She alternates her tempo from slow and dramatic to lively, jazzy, flirty, or intimate. Always, she and the musicians accompanying her are in perfect sync, both in interpreting the lyrics and improvising with the melodies. Every song is a winner. "Them There Eyes," begins with McRae singing off-rhythm, accompanied by a simple bass (Bob Cranshaw) and drums (Walter Perkins) before the sax (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis) enters. "I'm Gonna Lock My Heart," is the happiest, with McRae hitting some surprising high notes. "Miss Brown to You," swings in a loose, flirty manner, and "I Cried for You" features McRae sounding like a muted trumpet and wailing. "Lover Man" is wonderfully bluesy, with a toe-tapping rhythm and improvisation, while "A Little Moonlight," with great piano (Norman Simmons), sax (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis) and trumpet (Nat Adderley) solos, is wild and impassioned. "Yesterdays," my favorite, begins as a slow, harshly melancholy song with sensitive piano background, then suddenly pauses slightly in the middle, and shifts to a faster, jazzier, more rhythmic line in which McRae is up and down and all over the scale. "Strange Fruit," one of Holiday's signature songs, is finely articulated, and McRae's phrasing and ironically sweet tones give even more emphasis to the horrifying lyrics as Mundell Lowe's guitar provides the mournful accompaniment. "God Bless the Child," written by Holiday, is slow and intimate, and as McRae phrases the story, her wailing adds poignancy to the lyrics. Blessed with a voice and style that naturally adapts to any kind of jazz, along with the ability to articulate lyrics with perfect enunciation and phrasing, McRae is the consummate musician here. Singing some of Billie Holiday's best songs, and accompanied by world class artists with whom she is totally in sync, McRae in this LP is as good as it gets. By Mary Whipple

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Record Label
Pure Pleasure
UPC
5060149622667
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20046054613

Product Key Features

Artist
Carmen McRae
Format
Record
Release Year
2018
Release Title
Sings Lover Man
Genre
Jazz

Dimensions

Item Length
12.28in
Item Height
0.21in
Item Width
8.72in
Item Weight
0.72lb.

Additional Product Features

Label
Pups
Number of Discs
1
Tracks
1.1 Them There Eyes 1.2 Yesterdays 1.3 I'm Gonna Lock My Heart 1.4 Strange Fruit 1.5 Miss Brown to You 1.6 My Man 2.1 I Cried for You 2.2 Lover Man 2.3 Trav'lin' Light 2.4 Some Other Spring 2.5 What a Little Moonlight Can Do 2.6 God Bless the Child
Number of Tracks
12"
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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