After Glow is a 1957 album by jazz singer Carmen McRae released on Decca Records, her fifth on that label. Recorded in two studio sessions with just a rhythm section, McRae herself alternates on piano with Ronnell Bright on the first date; on April 18 Ray Bryant plays piano.
Track listing "I Can't Escape from You" (Leo Robin, Richard Whiting) – 3:35 "Guess Who I Saw Today" (Murray Grand, Elisse Boyd) – 3:35 "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:35 "It's the Little Things That Mean So Much" (Harold Adamson, Teddy Wilson) – 3:18 "I'm Thru with Love" (Matty Malneck, Fud Livingston, Gus Kahn) – 4:09 "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:33 "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 2:15 "Exactly Like You" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 2:09 "All My Life" (Sam H. Stept, Sidney Mitchell) – 4:19 "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:30 "Dream of Life" (Luther Henderson Jr., Carmen McRae) – 4:00 "Perdido" (Juan Tizol, Hans Lengsfelder, Ervin Drake) – 2:15
Personnel Carmen McRae – vocals, piano on tracks 1, 4, 8 and 12 (session of March 6, 1957) Ronnell Bright – piano on 2, 3, 7 and 11 (March 6, 1957) Ray Bryant – piano on 5, 6, 9 and 10 (April 18, 1957) Ike Isaacs – double bass Specs Wright – drums
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