Woman Talk


Woman Talk is a live album by jazz vocalist Carmen McRae featuring tracks recorded at the Village Gate in New York in November 1965 and originally released on the Mainstream label the following year. The second half of the concert came out in 1968 as "Live" & Wailing. The whole recording was compiled on a double LP in 1973 under the title Alive!.

Reception

awarded the album 3 stars and states "All in all, a very satisfying set from a singer who may not be quite up to the level of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughan, but who is certainly close enough to be numbered among the vocal jazz elite".

Track listing

  1. "Sometimes I'm Happy" - 3:27
  2. "Don't Explain" - 4:15
  3. "Woman Talk" - 4:51
  4. "Kick Off Your Shoes" - 2:16
  5. "The Shadow of Your Smile" - 3:53
  6. "The Sweetest Sounds" - 2:03
  7. "Where Would You Be Without Me?" - 2:34
  8. "Feeling Good" - 4:33
  9. "Run, Run, Run" - 2:30
  10. "No More" - 3:19
  11. "Look at That Face" - 5:02
  12. "I Wish I Were in Love Again" - 1:33

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