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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tonight_Only! > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tonight_Only!.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight_Only! > Source revision: 1293528490 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Tonight Only! | type = Studio | artist = [Dave Brubeck](/source/Dave_Brubeck) and [Carmen McRae](/source/Carmen_McRae) | cover = Brubeck McRae Tonight Only.jpeg | alt = | released = 1961 | recorded = 9 September, 14–15 December 1960, New York | venue = | studio = | genre = [Jazz](/source/Jazz) | length = 43:29 | label = [Columbia](/source/Columbia_Records) | producer = [Teo Macero](/source/Teo_Macero) | chronology = [Dave Brubeck](/source/Dave_Brubeck) | prev_title = [Southern Scene](/source/Southern_Scene) | prev_year = 1960 | next_title = [Countdown—Time in Outer Space](/source/Countdown%E2%80%94Time_in_Outer_Space) | next_year = 1960 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = [Carmen McRae](/source/Carmen_McRae) | type = album | prev_title = [Something to Swing About](/source/Something_to_Swing_About) | prev_year = 1959 | title = Tonight Only! | year = 1961 | next_title = [Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics](/source/Carmen_McRae_Sings_Lover_Man_and_Other_Billie_Holiday_Classics) | next_year = 1962 }} }} '''''Tonight Only!''''' is a 1961 album by the [Dave Brubeck Quartet](/source/Dave_Brubeck) featuring the singer [Carmen McRae](/source/Carmen_McRae).{{AllMusic|class=album|id=tonight-only-mw0000856833|label=Tonight Only!}} This was the first of three albums that Brubeck and McRae would make together, they would later work on ''[Take Five Live](/source/Take_Five_Live)'' (1961) and ''[The Real Ambassadors](/source/The_Real_Ambassadors)'' (1962). Brubeck praised McRae's lyrical interpretations of his songs, later stating that "Carmen has added even to my own understanding of the music".{{cite book|title=It's about Time: Dave Brubeck|year=1996|url=https://archive.org/details/itsabouttimedave00hall|url-access=registration|publisher=University of Arkansas Press|isbn=978-1-61075-210-7}} Brubeck's wife, Iola, contributed lyrics to three songs: "Weep No More", "Briar Bush" and "Strange Meadow Lark". ==Reception== {{Music ratings |rev1 = [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic) |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}} }} The [''Billboard'' magazine](/source/Billboard_(magazine)) review from 5 June 1961 chose ''Tonight Only!'' as one of its 'Spotlight Winners of the Week' and commented, "Brubeck teams up with canary Carmen McRae on this package and the results are eminently tasteful and listenable".{{cite magazine|title=Billboard, 5 June 1961| magazine=Billboard | date=5 June 1961 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiEEAAAAMBAJ|publisher=Nielsen Business Media|issn=0006-2510}} The album was reviewed by [Scott Yanow](/source/Scott_Yanow) at [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic) who wrote, "One of the more obscure Dave Brubeck albums is really a showcase for the young singer Carmen McRae who performs nine numbers ...McRae is in fine voice but strangely enough all of the songs (except for "Strange Meadowlark") have been long forgotten. Stronger material would have resulted in a more memorable session". ==Track listing== # "Melanctha" – 9:58 # "Weep No More" (Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck) – 2:49 # "Talkin' and Walkin'" ([Eugene Wright](/source/Eugene_Wright)) – 4:24 # "Briar Bush" (D. Brubeck, I. Brubeck) – 2:58 # "Paradiddle Joe" (Johnny Morris, Fred Parries, Jerry Pugsley) – 2:00 # "Late Lament" ([Paul Desmond](/source/Paul_Desmond)) – 6:17 # "Strange Meadow Lark" (D. Brubeck, I. Brubeck) – 2:38 # "Tristesse" (D. Brubeck) – 4:58 # "Tonight Only" (D. Brubeck) – 7:27 ''Tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, with McRae, were recorded on September 9, 1960; tracks 1 and 8 were recorded December 14, and on the following day, December 15, tracks 3, 6 and 9. Track 8,Cf. [https://www.discogs.com/release/7258896-Tonight-Only!/images albums' back cover image] on Discogs.com. "Tristesse", is a piano solo by Brubeck.''[https://www.jazzdisco.org/dave-brubeck/catalog/#columbia-cl-1609 Tonight Only!] at Jazzdisco.org ==Personnel== ;The Dave Brubeck Quartet: *[Dave Brubeck](/source/Dave_Brubeck) – piano *[Paul Desmond](/source/Paul_Desmond) – [alto saxophone](/source/alto_saxophone) *[Gene Wright](/source/Gene_Wright) – [double bass](/source/double_bass) *[Joe Morello](/source/Joe_Morello) – drums ;with *[Carmen McRae](/source/Carmen_McRae) – vocals (2, 4, 5, 7) ;Production *[Teo Macero](/source/Teo_Macero) – producer, liner notes *Henry Parker – photography ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Dave Brubeck}} {{Carmen McRae}} {{Authority control}} Category:1961 albums Category:Albums produced by Teo Macero Category:Columbia Records albums Category:Dave Brubeck albums Category:Carmen McRae albums --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Tonight Only!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight_Only!) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight_Only!?action=history)). 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