Blue Moon (Carmen McRae album)

Blue Moon is an album by jazz singer Carmen McRae, released on Decca Records in 1956.

Blue Moon
Studio album by
Carmen McRae
Released1956
GenreJazz
Length35:52
LabelDecca
ProducerKen Druker
Carmen McRae chronology
Torchy
(1956)		 Blue Moon
(1956)		 Boy Meets Girl
(1957)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic

Content

Allmusic critic Scott Yanow gave the album four out of five stars, stating:

Much of the music on this excellent (but obscure) Carmen McRae LP has not been reissued, and certainly not in complete form. Accompanied by an orchestra arranged and conducted by either Tadd Dameron or Jimmy Mundy, McRae performs both standards and obscurities, ballads and medium-tempo tunes. The big band is pretty anonymous but fine in ensemble work; the main focus is on the singer's voice anyway. Highlights include "Blue Moon", "My Foolish Heart", "I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket" and Mundell Lowe's "All This Could Lead to Love".[1]

Track listing
Side 1
  1. "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:35
  2. "My Foolish Heart" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) - 3:12
  3. "I Was Doing All Right" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:49
  4. "Summer Is Gone" (Don Costa) - 3:27
  5. "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" (Irving Berlin) - 2:24
  6. "Nowhere" (Joe Mooney) - 2:45
Side 2
  1. "Until the Real Thing Comes Along (Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols, Saul Chaplin, Sammy Cahn, L.E. Freeman) - 3:23
  2. "Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:37
  3. "Even If It Breaks My Heart" (Dick Carter, C. Henry Woods) - 2:35
  4. "Laughing Boy" (Jack Segal) - 3:01
  5. "Lilacs in the Rain" (Peter DeRose, Mitchell Parish) - 2:52
  6. "All This Could Lead to Love" (Mundell Lowe, Walter Bishop, Sr.) - 3:12
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References
  1. Scott Yanow, "Carmen McRae, Blue Moon" (review), AllMusic.
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