This overlooked on-location session from 1963 reveals, perhaps more than any other recording, why Carmen McRae at the time deserved to complete the dominating triumvirate in which Ella Fitzgerald's ...

You Know Who You Are; Just A Little Lovin'; Paint Your Pretty Picture With A Song; Pardon Me (Haven't We Met); My Old Flame; Sunday; I Have The Feeling, I've Been Here Before; Ballad Of Thelonius Monk ...

In 1978, I went to vocalist Carmen McRae’s Watergate Hotel suite to interview her for Radio Free Jazz, the precursor of Jazz Times. As I was setting up my tape recorder, she rolled a joint and offered ...