Dave Brubeck Quartet, The - Tonight Only! Guest Star Carmen McRae SEALED NEW CD

• INCLUDES 5 BONUS TRACKS

• 12-PAGE BOOKLET

This release presents For the first time ever on CD!, the complete original album Tonight Only! (Columbia CS8409), the first out of three collaborations between Dave Brubeck and singer Carmen McRae. Five extra songs presenting McRae backed by the Dave Brubeck Trio have been added here as a bonus, including a rare reading of “There’ll Be No Tomorrow” that also appears here on CD for the first time ever.

PERSONNEL:

• CARMEN McRAE vocals
• PAUL DESMOND alto sax
• DAVE BRUBECK piano
• EUGENE WRIGHT bass
• JOE MORELLO drums

New York, September 9 & December 14-15, 1960.

“Tristesse” is a solo piano performance by Brubeck.

• [10-14] BONUS TRACKS: From the same sessions. Not on the original album.
• CARMEN McRAE, vocals
• DAVE BRUBECK, piano
• EUGENE WRIGHT, bass
• JOE MORELLO, drums

TRACKS:

• 01 MELANCTHA
• 02 WEEP NO MORE
• 03 TALKIN’ AND WALKIN’
• 04 BRIAR BUSH [aka SOUTHERN SCENE]
• 05 PARADIDDLE JOE
• 06 LATE LAMENT
• 07 STRANGE MEADOWLARK
• 08 TRISTESSE
• 09 TONIGHT ONLY
• 10 THERE’LL BE NO TOMORROW
• 11 EASY AS YOU GO
• 12 SUMMER SONG
• 13 IN THE LURCH
• 14 MY ONE BAD HABIT