Carmen McRae's 1950s Decca recordings remain among her most formative and exquisite. Recorded between 1954 and 1958, the label's nine McRae albums and a dozen or so singles uniformly captured her voice in solid form, while it was still bouncing around in the midrange before dropping lower in the 1960s. After Glow, backed mostly by the Ray Bryant Trio, i…
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