The Great American Songbook (Carmen McRae album)
| The Great American Songbook | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | June 1972 | |||
| Recorded | November 6, 1971 | |||
| Venue | Donte's, Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
| Length | 1:11:17 | |||
| Label | Atlantic SD2-904 | |||
| Producer | Jack Rael | |||
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The Great American Songbook is a 1972 live album by Carmen McRae, accompanied by a jazz quartet including Jimmy Rowles and Joe Pass. McRae was a great fan of Rowles and described him in the liner notes to the album as "the guy every girl singer in her right mind would like to work with". Rowles's humorous country and western song, "The Ballad of Thelonious Monk", is featured on the album.