Betty Carter - I Can't Help It

Styles: Jazz, Vocal

Year: 1960

File: MP3@224K/s

Time: 62:32

Size: 101,2 MB

Art: Front

(2:46)  1. I Can't Help It

(2:08)  2. By The Bend Of The River

(2:49)  3. Babe's Blues

(2:31)  4. You're Getting To Be A Habit W

(3:59)  5. But Beautiful

(2:15)  6. All I Got

(1:45)  7. You're Driving Me Crazy

(2:22)  8. Foul Play

(2:03)  9. On The Isle Of May

(4:31) 10. Make It Last

(1:31) 11. The BlueBird of Happiness

(3:37) 12. Something Wonderful

(2:19) 13. For You

(2:03) 14. What A Little Moonlight Can Do

(2:23) 15. Remember

(2:43) 16. At Sundown

(2:04) 17. Mean To Me

(2:23) 18. I Don't Want To Set The World

(1:55) 19. On The Alamo

(1:56) 20. Jazz (Ain't Nothin' But Soul)

(3:09) 21. There's No You

(3:22) 22. Stormy Weather

(2:48) 23. My Reverie

(3:01) 24. Don't Weep For The Lady

This single-CD reissues the second batch of Betty Carter recordings, her Peacock and ABC-Paramount dates which followed her Epic/Columbia titles by two years. Formerly available as a two-LP set (What a Little Moonlight Can Do), the 24 selections find the already-distinctive vocalist carving out her own sound from the bebop tradition; her more innovative work was in the future. Quite a few of the renditions are memorable including "I Can't Help It" (which is somewhat autobiographical), "You're Driving Me Crazy," "What a Little Moonlight Can Do," "Jazz (Ain't Nothin' but Soul)" and "Don't Weep for the Lady." While the second half of the CD has Carter accompnied by an orchestra arranged by Richard Wess, the first 12 numbers feature such top players as trumpeters Ray Copeland and Kenny Dorham, either Jerome Richardson or Benny Golson on tenor and pianist Wynton Kelly. Highly recommended. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/i-cant-help-it-mw0000081210

I Can't Help It

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