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• How Irene Wilson Kitchings helped her get started in music.
    from "Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland"
   
• the impact of Billie Holiday
    from "For Lady Day, Volume 1," Novus
   
• her years in Chicago honing her craft.
   
• standing up away from the piano to sing for the first time (at Minton’s)
    from "Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland"
   
• how she got her first recording contrac
   
• the importance of lyrics

And see Carmen sing...

   You Tube has over twenty videos with Carmen most of them professionally recorded:
.  several from Ralph Gleason"s Jazz Casual, a recording from a live television show (1966)
   (DVD available for purchase from your favorite music store.)
.  several from Live in Tokyo, recorded in 1988 (also available in DVD)
.  from a concert with the Clark/Boland band (1960s)
.  from the 1980 North Sea Jazz Festival ("Miss Otis Regrets")
.  from the Montreux Jazz Festival  (1982)
.  from, the Montreal Jazz Festival (1988) with Clifford Jordan. EXCELLENT QUALITY
.  and from the Cork, Antibes, Blue Note festivals, and a tribute to Billie Holiday at the Hollywood Bowl.

   Go to www.youtube.com, put "Carmen McRae" in the window and click.