One of the truly uniquely swinging voices in jazz, Carmen McRae carbed out a career that ranged from the Swing Era to post modern jazz. Her smoky voice and relaxed, behind the beat delivery is a fingerprint of a signature that influenced scores of vocalists in her wake. This collection of recordings find he in a Chicago night club back in 1976, a time when acoustic jazz was a threatened by rock and roll and jazz fusion. McRae stays true to her tradition during this period with a working band of Ed Bennett/b, Joey Bron/dr and Marshal Otwell/p for a stellar sat when she ranges from bossa nova’d tunes like “Dindi” and “Like A Lover” and classig swing such as “Them There Eyes” or and an Ellington medley” . She always had a think for Monk, and salutes him on “Ballad of Thelonius Monk” while beltingout the blues on “Tain’t Nobody’s Business” Sui generis.