Carmen McRae : Miss Jazz / Leslie Gourse.
"Carmen McRae is well known as one of jazz music's most masterful improvisers and is ranked among the greatest jazz singers of all time. She grew up during the swing era in Harlem, and participated in the transition from swing to bebop - the New Thing - playing with all the important music...
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New York :
Billboard Books,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- The early years
- Learning on the jazz scene in Harlem
- From the Chicago clubs to the jazz critics' polls
- Touring
- The years with accompanist Norman Simmons
- Mixing business with pleasure
- Manager Jack Rael steps in
- Globetrotting
- Working hard to maintain her stardom
- Carmen's blues.