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After Glow (Carmen McRae album)

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After Glow
Studio album by
Released1957
RecordedMarch 6 & April 18, 1957[1]
New York City
Genre
Length37:43
LabelDecca DL-8583
Carmen McRae chronology
Boy Meets Girl
(1957)
After Glow
(1957)
Mad About the Man
(1958)

After Glow is a 1957 album by jazz singer Carmen McRae released on Decca Records, her fifth on that label.[3][4] Recorded in two studio sessions with just a rhythm section, McRae herself alternates on piano with Ronnell Bright on the first date; on April 18 Ray Bryant plays piano.

Track listing

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  1. "I Can't Escape from You" (Leo Robin, Richard Whiting) – 3:35
  2. "Guess Who I Saw Today" (Murray Grand, Elisse Boyd) – 3:35
  3. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:35
  4. "It's the Little Things That Mean So Much" (Harold Adamson, Teddy Wilson) – 3:18
  5. "I'm Thru with Love" (Matty Malneck, Fud Livingston, Gus Kahn) – 4:09
  6. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:33
  7. "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 2:15
  8. "Exactly Like You" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 2:09
  9. "All My Life" (Sam H. Stept, Sidney Mitchell) – 4:19
  10. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:30
  11. "Dream of Life" (Luther Henderson Jr., Carmen McRae) – 4:00
  12. "Perdido" (Juan Tizol, Hans Lengsfelder, Ervin Drake) – 2:15

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Cf. with Carmen McRae's 1950s sessionography on Jazzdiscography.com
  2. ^ Stanley, Bob (2022). "Squeeze Me: Vocal Jazz". Let's Do It – The Birth of Pop Music: A History. New York: Pegasus Books. p. 451.
  3. ^ "After Glow". Allmusic. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
  4. ^ After Glow at Discogs