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“Would You Believe” Carmen McRae’s Funky Soul-Jazz Classic is Back from BBR?
1976’s Can’t Hide Love, recently reissued by Big Break Records, wasn’t jazz singer Carmen McRae’s first venture into contemporary territory. Like so many other interpretive vocalists who had begun...
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Big Break Serves Up Soul, Jazz and Funk from Carmen McRae, Billy Paul, Azteca...
Timeless soul music knows no regional boundaries, at least based on the latest quintet of releases from Cherry Red’s Big Break Records imprint. With this group of reissues, you’ll travel to...
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Review: Carmen McRae, “I Am Music”
“Life is just too much for me to bear…I guess nobody ever really cared…do you?” Carmen McRae poses that question some four minutes into “A Letter for Anna-Lee,” the Benard Ighner song that opens her...
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Baby, It’s Burt: “The Warner Sound” and “The Atlantic Sound” Compile Rare...
In his 85th year, Burt Bacharach has kept a pace that would wear out many a younger man. In addition to performing a number of concert engagements, the Oscar, Grammy and Gershwin Prize-winning...
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