After Glow (Carmen McRae album)

After Glow
Studio album by Carmen McRae
Released	1957
Recorded	March 6 & April 18, 1957[1] New York City
Genre	Vocal jazz lounge[2]
Length	37:43
Label	Decca 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

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

• Carmen McRae – vocals, piano on tracks 1, 4, 8 and 12 (session of March 6, 1957)
• Ronnell Bright – piano on 2, 3, 7 and 11 (March 6, 1957)
• Ray Bryant – piano on 5, 6, 9 and 10 (April 18, 1957)
• Ike Isaacs – double bass
• Specs Wright – drums

References

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