Alive! (Carmen McRae album)

Alive!
Live album / compilation by
Released1973 (Double LP); 1994 CD
RecordedDecember 1965[1]
StudioThe Village Gate, New York City
GenreVocal jazz
Length1:15:21
LabelMainstream Records MRL 800, Columbia/Legacy
JK 57887 (US), COL 477738 2 (Europe)
ProducerBob Shad (original),
Lawrence Cohn (CD reissue)

Alive! is a 1973 live album by the American jazz singer Carmen McRae recorded at The Village Gate in New York City in 1965. This is a compilation album of two albums already released on Mainstream Records, Woman Talk (1966), and "Live" and Wailing (1968), with Woman Talk covering the first twelve songs, the latter the last nine.[2] The double LP was digitally mastered and released on CD by Sony Music in 1994 on their Columbia/Legacy labels in the "Columbia Jazz Masterpieces" series.[3][4]

  1. ^ It says "November 3–21, 1965" in the Carmen McRae 1960s sessionography on Jazzdiscography.com
  2. ^ Alive! at Discogs
  3. ^ Alive! at AllMusic
  4. ^ "Carmen McRae – Alive!". Carmen McRae – Alive!. Discogs. Retrieved 10 February 2015.