Take Five (album)

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Take Five
Take Five cover
Studio album by Carmen McRae
Released 1961
Recorded September 6, 1961
Genre Jazz
Length 36:77
Label Columbia Records
Professional reviews
Carmen McRae chronology
Book of Ballads
(1961)
Take Five
(1961)
Sings Lover Man and other Billie Holiday Classics
(1962)

Take Five is a 1961 (see 1961 in music) live album by the American jazz singer Carmen McRae, focusing on the songs composed by Dave Brubeck. In this album McRae gives us the finest version of the jazz classic, "Take Five".

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1. "When I Was Young"
2. "In Your Own Sweet Way"
3. "Too Young for Growing Old"
4. "Ode to a Cowboy"
5. "There'll Be No Tomorrow"
6. "Melanctha"
7. "It's a Raggy Waltz"
8. "Oh So Blue"
9. "Lord, Lord"
10. "Travellin' Blues"
11. "Take Five"
12. "Easy as You Go"


All songs composed by Dave Brubeck, except the jazz standard "Take Five", which was created by alto saxophonist of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Paul Desmond.

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