Her first album for the label, Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday ... made perfect sense for a theater singer like Julie Andrews, having a jazz singer like Carmen McRae pay “tribute” to Ethel Merman ...

On this program, we’ll explore those early years for McRae, focusing on her many albums for Decca Records in the late 1950s. Carmen McRae in March 1957 with the Rodgers and Hart song “My Funny ...

The legendary Carmen McRae would have turned 102 this month, and we're giving one of her best LPs a spin this week in our Classic Album series. Recorded in the late '80s, McRae hit the studio to ...

Carmen and Betty's influence started to fade. Yet they stayed true to their respective styles - and both McRae and Carter made comebacks - producing some of their finest albums during their later ...

Singer Christine Tobin joins Alyn Shipton to pick the highlights from the more than 60 albums that McRae made before her death in 1994. Composer: Mercer Performers: Carmen McRae (vocals), Ben ...