November Girl

November Girl is an album by vocalist Carmen McRae and the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band recorded in London in 1970 and originally released on the Black Lion label in 1975.^[1][2][3]

November Girl
Studio album by Carmen McRae and the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band
Released	1975
Recorded	November 3, 1970
Studio	Lansdowne Studios, London
Genre	Jazz
Length	34:25
Label	Black Lion BLP 30172
Producer	Gigi Campi
Carmen McRae chronology
Ms. Jazz (1974) November Girl (1975) Can't Hide Love (1976)
Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band chronology
Off Limits (1970) November Girl (1970 (1975)) Change of Scenes (1971)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]

The AllMusic review by Ken Dryden stated "The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band didn't record too often with vocalists, so this meeting with Carmen McRae had a lot of potential. McRae was likely seeing most of these songs for the first take at the recording sessions, since almost all are originals written by the bandmembers. She's game and does her best, but several tracks are badly dated by Boland's insistence upon using an inferior electric piano, whereas no piano at all on these performances would have sounded far better. ...This is a good session that could have been far better without the cheesy electronics".^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Jimmy Woode, except where indicated.

1. "November Girl" (Jimmy Woode, Francy Boland) – 4:36
2. "Just Give Me Time" (Boland) – 2:22
3. "'Tis Autumn" (Henry Nemo) – 4:24
4. "A Handful of Soul" (Dusko Gojkovic, Woode) – 4:09
5. "Dear Death" – 4:18
6. "I Don't Want Nothing from Nobody" (Woode, Kenny Clarke) – 4:25
7. "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 4:05
8. "My Kind of World" – 3:13
9. "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" (Steve Allen) – 2:36 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

• Carmen McRae – vocals
• Francy Boland – piano, keyboards, arranger
• Kenny Clarke – drums
• Benny Bailey, Art Farmer, Duško Gojković, Idrees Sulieman – trumpet
• Nat Peck, Åke Persson, Eric van Lier – trombone
• Tony Coe, Derek Humble, Billy Mitchell, Ronnie Scott, Sahib Shihab – reeds
• Jimmy Woode – bass
• Kenny Clare – drums
• Dizzy Gillespie – snare drum (track 2)

References

1. Carmen McRae discography, accessed September 18, 2016
2. Dusko Gojkovic discography, accessed September 18, 2016
3. Bigband Paradise album entry accessed September 20, 2016
4. Dryden, Ken. November Girl – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 18, 2016.