Take Five Live

Take Five Live
Live album by Carmen McRae
Released 1961
Recorded September 6, 1961, Basin Street East, New York City
Genre Vocal jazz
Length 36:77
Label Columbia
Carmen McRae chronology

Book of Ballads
(1961)
Take Five Live
(1961)
Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics
(1962)
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Take Five Live is a 1961 live album by the American jazz singer Carmen McRae, focusing on the songs composed by Dave Brubeck. This was McRae's second album with Brubeck, their first, Tonight Only with the Dave Brubeck Quartet was released in 1960.

Track listing

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

Personnel

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

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