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Carmen Sings Monk - Wikipedia

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Carmen Sings Monk

Studio album by

Carmen McRae

Released

1990

Recorded

January 30 & February 1, 1988*
April 12 & 13, 1988**^[1]

Venue

Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA*

Studio

Clinton Recording Studio, New York**

Genre

Vocal jazz

Length

65:02

Label

Novus

Producer

Larry Clothier

Carmen McRae chronology

Fine and Mellow: Live at Birdland West
(1988)

Carmen Sings Monk
(1990)

Sarah: Dedicated to You
(1991)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Robert Christgau	A− ^[3]

Carmen Sings Monk is a 1990 studio album by the American jazz singer Carmen McRae, focusing exclusively on the songs composed by Thelonious Monk. It was one of the last recordings released in her lifetime. McRae was accompanied by Clifford Jordan on soprano and tenor saxophone, and a rhythm section with pianist Eric Gunnison, bassist George Mraz and Al Foster on drums. Two songs, namely "Get It Straight" and "Suddenly" (i.e. "In Walked Bud"), were recorded earlier that year live at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco with tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, who played the longest time with Monk. The rhythm section was almost the same, then with Larry Willis on piano.

McRae was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female at the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards for her performance on this album.^[4]

Release history

The album was originally released in 1990 on Novus Records (on CD, LP and MC), the first of four subsequent recordings by McRae released on the BMG sublabel, before Novus became defunct in the mid-1990s. McRae herself only saw the release of the following Sarah: Dedicated to You, she died in 1994.^[5] The recording was reissued three years later on Jazz Heritage, and re-released in 2001 on Bluebird in their First Editions series, another BMG subsidiary, with three additional alternate takes of the studion session (the recording dates could also finally be specified). After BMG and Sony America merged (as Sony BMG) and split again, Carmen Sings Monk was reissued in 2017, this time by Sony/Legacy.^[6]

Track listing

All music composed by Thelonious Monk, lyricists indicated.
Due to copyright restrictions the song titles of these standards were modified (with the exception of "'Round Midnight"). Monk's original titles are indicated after the track titles.

"Get It Straight" ("Straight, No Chaser") (Sally Swisher) – 3:58
"Dear Ruby" ("Ruby, My Dear") (Swisher) – 6:01
"It's Over Now" ("Well, You Needn't") (Mike Ferro) – 5:28
"Monkery's the Blues" ("Blue Monk") (Abbey Lincoln) – 4:56
"You Know Who" ("I Mean You") (Coleman Hawkins, Jon Hendricks) – 3:31
"Little Butterfly" ("Pannonica") (Hendricks) – 5:15
"Listen to Monk" ("Rhythm-a-Ning") (Hendricks) – 3:05
"How I Wish" ("Ask Me Now") (Hendricks) – 4:56
"Man, That Was a Dream" ("Monk's Dream") (Hendricks) – 2:55
"'Round Midnight" (Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen) – 6:32
"Still We Dream" ("Ugly Beauty") (Ferro) – 3:27
"Suddenly" ("In Walked Bud") (Hendricks) – 3:41
"Looking Back" ("Reflections") (Hendricks) – 5:35

Tracks on original CD release, but omitted on LP and MC

"Suddenly" – 3:13
"Get It Straight" – 3:26

Previously unreleased, alternate takes added since 2001 reissue

"'Round Midnight" (Alternate Version) – 7:11
"Listen to Monk" (Alternate Take) – 2:59
"Man, That Was a Dream" (Alternate Take) – 3:23

Personnel

Carmen McRae - vocals
Clifford Jordan - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Eric Gunnison - piano
George Mraz - double bass
Al Foster - drums

Live at Great American Music Hall on January 30 & February 1, 1988 (tracks 1 & 12)

Charlie Rouse - tenor saxophone
Larry Willis - piano
George Mraz - double bass
Al Foster - drums

References

^ Cf. production credits on album booklet image, page 3, of the 2001 re-release on Bluebird on Discogs.
^ Yanow, Scott. Carmen Sings Monk at AllMusic
^ Robert Christgau review Archived April 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ Grammy Award Database
^ There is also a live recording from a 1989 concert in Yokohama, that Novus' Japanese sister label Victor released in 1992. Cf. New York State of Mind: Live at Bird at Discogs.
^ At least outside the US, in France and Canada.

v t e Carmen McRae
Discography
Studio albums	A Foggy Day with Carmen McRae Carmen McRae By Special Request Torchy Blue Moon After Glow Mad About the Man Carmen for Cool Ones Birds of a Feather Book of Ballads When You're Away Something to Swing About Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics Something Wonderful Bittersweet Second to None Haven't We Met? Alfie For Once in My Life Portrait of Carmen The Sound of Silence Just a Little Lovin' I Am Music November Girl It Takes a Whole Lot of Human Feeling Ms. Jazz Can't Hide Love I'm Coming Home Again Heat Wave You're Lookin' at Me (A Collection of Nat King Cole Songs) Any Old Time Carmen Sings Monk Sarah: Dedicated to You Dream of Life
Duet albums	Boy Meets Girl with Sammy Davis Jr. Porgy and Bess with Sammy Davis Jr. Two for the Road with George Shearing The Carmen McRae – Betty Carter Duets
Live albums	Tonight Only! Carmen McRae in London Take Five Live Live at Sugar Hill Woman Talk Carmen McRae The Great American Songbook As Time Goes By: Live at the Dug Live and Doin' It Live at Century Plaza At the Great American Music Hall Ronnie Scott's Presents Carmen McRae 'Live' Jazz Gala 79 Recorded Live at Bubba's Fine and Mellow: Live at Birdland West For Lady Day Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual
Compilation albums	This Is Carmen McRae Carmen's Gold Velvet Soul The Greatest of Carmen McRae
Related articles	Performing Music from The Subterraneans The Real Ambassadors Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport

v t e Thelonious Monk
Discography Compositions
As leader	Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 Wizard of the Vibes Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 Thelonious Monk Trio Monk Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins Piano Solo Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington The Unique Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners Thelonious Himself Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk Monk's Music Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Mulligan Meets Monk Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings Thelonious in Action Misterioso The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall 5 by Monk by 5 Thelonious Alone in San Francisco Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk Monk in France Thelonious Monk in Italy Monk's Dream Criss-Cross Monk in Tokyo Miles & Monk at Newport Big Band and Quartet in Concert It's Monk's Time Monk Solo Monk Live at the It Club Live at the Jazz Workshop Misterioso (Recorded on Tour) Straight, No Chaser Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 Underground Monk's Blues
With others	Midnight at Minton's Bird and Diz Bags' Groove Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants Moving Out Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 Nica's Tempo In Orbit
Compositions	"In Walked Bud" "'Round Midnight"
Related articles	Blue Note Sessions Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser Rewind & Play

v t e Clifford Jordan
Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Blowing in from Chicago (1957) Cliff Jordan (1957) Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons (1957) Cliff Craft (1957) Spellbound (1960) A Story Tale (1961) Starting Time (1961) Bearcat (1962) These are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly (1965) Soul Fountain (1966) In the World (1969) Glass Bead Games (1973) Half Note (1974) Drink Plenty Water (1974) Night of the Mark VII (aka, The Highest Mountain, Muse, 1975) On Stage Vol. 1 (1975) On Stage Vol. 2 (1975) On Stage Vol. 3 (1975) Firm Roots (1975) The Highest Mountain (SteepleChase, 1975) Remembering Me-Me (1976) Inward Fire (1977) The Adventurer (1978) Hello, Hank Jones (1978) Hyde Park After Dark (1981) Repetition (1984) Dr. Chicago (1984) Two Tenor Winner (1984) The Rotterdam Session (1985) Royal Ballads (1986) Live at Ethell's (1987) Masters from Different Worlds (1989) Four Play (1990) The Mellow Side of Clifford Jordan (1989–91) Play What You Feel (1990) Down Through the Years (1991)
With Art Farmer	Mirage (1982) You Make Me Smile (1984) Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (1987) Blame It on My Youth (1988) Ph.D. (1989)
With Charles Mingus	Cornell 1964 (March 1964) Town Hall Concert (April 1964) Astral Weeks (April 1964) Mingus in Europe Volume I (April 1964) Mingus in Europe Volume II (April 1964) Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (June 1964)
With Lee Morgan	Here's Lee Morgan (1960) Expoobident (1960) Take Twelve (1962)
With Max Roach	Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961) It's Time (1962) Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962)
With Cedar Walton	Spectrum (1968) The Electric Boogaloo Song (1969) A Night at Boomers, Vol. 1 (1973) A Night at Boomers, Vol. 2 (1973) The Pentagon (1976)
With others	Paul Chambers Quintet (1957) Sonny Clark Quintets/My Conception (1957) Epistrophy & Now's the Time (Richard Davis, 1972) Dealin' (Richard Davis, 1973) Iron Man (Eric Dolphy, 1963) Conversations (Eric Dolphy, 1963) To Bird with Love (Dizzy Gillespie, 1992) Roots (Slide Hampton, 1985) Luminous (John Hicks and Elise Wood, 1985) Shades (Andrew Hill, 1986) J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1961) Con Alma! (Charles McPherson, 1965) Any Old Time (Carmen McRae, 1986) Carmen Sings Monk (Carmen McRae, 1988) Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 1 (Mingus Dynasty, 1988) Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 2 (Mingus Dynasty, 1988) Pony's Express (Pony Poindexter, 1962) Manhattan Project (Dizzy Reece, 1976) The Jazz We Heard Last Summer (Sahib Shihab, 1957) Further Explorations (Horace Silver, 1958) Music Inc. (Charles Tolliver, 1970) What It Is (Mal Waldron, 1981) Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1967)

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