Take Five Live

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Take Five Live | type = live | artist = Carmen McRae | cover = TakeFive.jpg | alt = | released = 1962 | recorded = September 6, 1961, Basin Street East, New York City | venue = | studio = | genre = Vocal jazz | length = 37:17 | label = Columbia | producer = | prev_title = Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics | prev_year = 1962 | next_title = Woman Talk | next_year = 1966 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r69622|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref> | rev2 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 138 }}</ref> }}

'''''Take Five Live''''' is a 1962 live album by American jazz singer Carmen McRae with pianist Dave Brubeck, focusing on interpretations of his songs. This was McRae's second album with Brubeck; their first, ''Tonight Only with the Dave Brubeck Quartet'', was released in 1961.

==Track listing== All tracks composed by Dave Brubeck and Iola Brubeck; except where indicated #"When I Was Young" #"In Your Own Sweet Way" #"Too Young for Growing Old" #"Ode to a Cowboy" #"There'll Be No Tomorrow" #"Melanctha" (D. Brubeck, Liz Blake) #"It's a Raggy Waltz" (D. Brubeck) #"Oh So Blue" (D. Brubeck) #"Lord, Lord" #"Travellin' Blues" #"Take Five" (Paul Desmond, I. Brubeck) #"Easy as You Go"

== Personnel == *Carmen McRae - vocals ;The Dave Brubeck Quartet: (except Paul Desmond - alto saxophone) *Dave Brubeck - piano *Gene Wright - double bass *Joe Morello - drums

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Category:1962 live albums Category:Carmen McRae live albums Category:Columbia Records live albums Category:Dave Brubeck live albums Category:Albums recorded at Basin Street East