Betty Carter - Now It's My Turn

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1976
File: MP3@224K/s
Time: 45:51
Size: 74,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:32) 1. Music Maestro Please-swing Brother Swing
(5:07) 2. I Was Telling Him About You
(7:17) 3. Wagon Wheels
(6:28) 4. New Blues (You Purr)
(3:07) 5. Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love
(3:00) 6. Making Dreams Come True
(4:37) 7. Open The Door
(4:39) 8. Just Friends / Star Eyes
(6:59) 9. No More Words

The title of this out-of-print Roulette album was a bit premature for it would not be until the late '80s before Betty Carter was finally "discovered." An adventurous jazz singer whose musical integrity is almost as impressive as her talents at improvising, Carter is heard in top form throughout her obscure albumn. Assisted by pianist John Hicks, bassist Walter Booker and an unidentified drummer, Carter performs memorable renditions of such unlikely material as "Wagon Wheels," "Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love" and medleys of "Music Maestro Please/Swing Brother Swing" and "Just Friends/Star Eyes." Worth searching for.~Scott Yanowhttps://www.allmusic.com/album/now-its-my-turn-mw0000921896

Personnel: Betty Carter – vocals; John Hicks – piano; Walter Booker – bass; Eddie Moore – drums

Now It's My Turn

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Betty Carter - Priceless Jazz

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:43
Size: 116.1 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[1:44] 1. You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do)
[2:47] 2. My Reverie
[2:50] 3. Babe's Blues
[1:30] 4. The Blue Bird Of Happiness
[2:31] 5. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me
[2:22] 6. Remember
[4:30] 7. Make It Last
[2:04] 8. Mean To Me
[2:07] 9. By The Bend Of The River
[1:56] 10. Jazz (Ain't Nothin' But Soul)
[3:59] 11. But Beautiful
[3:22] 12. Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time)
[3:37] 13. Something Wonderful
[3:01] 14. Don't Weep For The Lady
[2:22] 15. Foul Play
[2:42] 16. At Sundown
[2:23] 17. I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire
[2:02] 18. On The Isle Of May
[2:45] 19. I Can't Help It

GRP's Priceless Jazz is a mid-line collection that concentrates on Betty Carter's fine recordings for Peacock and ABC-Paramount during the late '60s. Although this disc could hardly be called definitive, it nevertheless offers many of her best cuts for the label, making this disc an excellent choice for neophytes and curious listeners -- it is both affordable and entertaining. ~Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Betty Carter - Whatever Happened To Love

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:32
Size: 120.3 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1982/2004
Art: Front

[10:24] 1. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
[ 6:10] 2. Cocktails For Two
[ 2:23] 3. Social Call
[ 5:12] 4. Goodbye
[ 4:19] 5. With No Words
[ 6:19] 6. New Blues (You Purrrrrr)
[ 4:40] 7. I Cry Alone
[ 7:15] 8. Abre La Puerta
[ 5:47] 9. Everytime We Say Goodbye

A live date recorded at the Bottom Line in New York City, Whatever Happened to Love? features Betty Carter with her trio of the time backed by a 15-piece orchestra (mostly strings) conducted by David Amram. It's an enjoyable set, though not up to the ecstatic heights Ms. Carter often achieved in the '60s and early '70s. The pieces chosen are generally slow and even torchy, with the exception of her classic "With No Words" and, especially when the strings are present, there's a bit too much plushness and too little bite. But when it's only the trio, her unique voice is given a good opportunity to shine, and she digs into the material with obvious relish. Her ability to bend saccharine tunes like Bacharach's "I Cry Alone" or "Cocktails for Two" to her own creative ends is always a joy and on good display here. Overall, not an absolutely essential Carter release, but one that could well turn the heads of listeners either unfamiliar with her or those who have previously shied away. ~Brian Olewnick

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Betty Carter - Give The Love Around

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 77:28
Size: 177.3 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[3:16] 1. Heart And Soul
[2:32] 2. The Good Life
[3:20] 3. Takes Two To Tango
[3:07] 4. Who, What, Why, Where, When
[4:14] 5. Gone With The Wind
[2:41] 6. The Way You Look Tonight
[2:34] 7. Nothing More To Look Forward To
[4:42] 8. Alone Together
[2:58] 9. When I Fall In Love
[2:42] 10. Everybody's Somebody's Fool
[3:15] 11. Round Midnight
[2:30] 12. I Wonder
[4:26] 13. Make It Last
[2:19] 14. Side By Side
[3:34] 15. Something Wonderful
[2:21] 16. Remember
[4:07] 17. Baby, It's Cold Outside
[2:41] 18. Three Stars Will Shine Tonight
[2:04] 19. Two Cigarettes In The Dark
[3:21] 20. Stormy Weather
[2:29] 21. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me
[3:56] 22. But Beautiful
[1:55] 23. Jazz Ain't Nothin' But Soul
[2:22] 24. I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire
[3:50] 25. Call Me Darling

Betty Carter (1929–1998) was a prominent U.S. jazz singer, renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style. Carter expanded the role of the vocalist in jazz, to a full, improvising member of the band. Although her voice was not as admired by the public as such vocalists as Sarah Vaughan or Ella Fitzgerald, many consider her to have exercised mastery of the human voice previously unheard in jazz. Carmen McRae once claimed that "there's really only one jazz singer - only one: Betty Carter."

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Betty Carter - Look What I Got!

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 1988
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:33
Size: 111,2 MB
Art: Front

(5:43)  1. Look What I Got
(4:56)  2. That Sunday, That Summer
(7:40)  3. The Man I Love
(4:41)  4. All I Got
(4:20)  5. Just Like The Movies (Time)
(4:55)  6. Imagination
(2:41)  7. Mr. Gentleman
(6:35)  8. Make It Last
(6:57)  9. The Good Life

This well-rounded set gives listeners a good look at the adventurous music of Betty Carter. For this CD, she is joined by one of two rhythm sections (with either Benny Green or Stephen Scott on piano) and, on four of the nine songs, tenor saxophonist Don Braden. Carter twists and turns some familiar songs (such as "The Man I Love," "Imagination" and "The Good Life") along with a variety of lesser-known material including two songs of her own. Consistently unpredictable (whether scatting or stretching out ballads) Betty Carter's recordings are always quite stimulating. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/look-what-i-got-mw0000195894

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Betty Carter - Inside Betty Carter

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 45:26

Size: 104.0 MB

Styles: Bop, Soul jazz vocals

Year: 1972/1993

Art: Front

[3:11] 1. This Is Always

[1:55] 2. Look No Further

[5:07] 3. Beware My Heart

[1:35] 4. My Favourite Things

[3:45] 5. Some Other Time

[3:13] 6. Open The Door

[5:17] 7. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most

[1:57] 8. Something Big

[2:57] 9. New England

[2:02] 10. The Moon Is Low

[2:56] 11. Once In Your Life

[1:51] 12. It's A Big Wide Wonderful World

[3:48] 13. There Is No Greater Love

[4:03] 14. You're A Sweetheart

[1:42] 15. Isn't It Romantic

These recordings can be considered the final ones of Betty Carter's early period for, by the time she next appeared on record (in 1969), the singer was much more adventurous in her improvisations. This CD reissues eight selections from Carter's rather brief 1964 Roulette LP (under 26 minutes), plus it adds seven previously unissued numbers from 1965. On the former date Carter (who is quite memorable on "This Is Always," "Some Other Time," and "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most") is accompanied by pianist Harold Mabern, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Roy McCurdy, while the "new" session ("There Is No Greater Love" and "You're a Sweetheart" are the standouts) features guitarist Kenny Burrell plus an unknown rhythm section in the backup band. Highly recommended to Betty Carter fans and to those listeners who find her later work somewhat forbidding. ~Scott Yanow

Inside Betty Carter

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Betty Carter, Carmen McRae - Duets: Live at the Great American Music Hall

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:43
Size: 141.3 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[6:45] 1. Am I Blue
[7:56] 2. Sometimes I'm Happy
[2:58] 3. Isn't It Romantic
[3:35] 4. Sophisticated Lady
[2:51] 5. I Hear Music
[8:08] 6. Love Dance
[4:21] 7. What's New
[3:38] 8. Stolen Moments
[5:54] 9. But Beautiful
[5:33] 10. Ballad Medley: Glad To Be Unhappy/Where Or When
[6:10] 11. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
[3:48] 12. That Old Devil Moon

Betty Carter - vocals; Carmen McRae - vocals, piano; Eric Gunnison - piano; Jim Hughart - double bass; Winard Harper - drums.

This project is an unusual matchup between two very individual vocalists that generally works. Both Carmen McRae and Betty Carter show a lot of good humor during their duets, cracking occasional jokes and often jamming quite spontaneously. With suitable support from pianist Eric Gunnison, bassist Jim Hughart and drummer Winard Harper along with a very enthusiastic audience at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall, Carter usually takes vocal honors while McRae comes up with the most humorous lines. Some of the ensembles are ragged but this encounter is overall quite successful. The CD reissue adds three previously unreleased selections that feature McRae without Carter. Now if only someone had teamed together Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan for a full album. ~Scott Yanow

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Betty Carter - 'Round Midnight

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:51
Size: 84.4 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1963/2005
Art: Front

[2:41] 1. Nothing More To Look Forward To
[3:13] 2. Who What Why Where When
[3:22] 3. Heart And Soul
[3:56] 4. Call Me Darling
[2:57] 5. When I Fall In Love
[3:21] 6. 'round Midnight
[2:34] 7. I Wonder
[2:46] 8. Theme From Dr. Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight)
[2:31] 9. The Good Life
[2:46] 10. Everybody's Somebody's Fool
[2:09] 11. Two Cigarettes In The Dark
[2:10] 12. Shine On Harvest Moon
[2:21] 13. One Note Samba

Betty Carter recorded only two albums during the 1961-1968 period. Her chance-taking style and unusual voice were mostly ignored and it would not be until the late '70s that she was finally "discovered." This Atlantic CD finds Carter backed by orchestras arranged by Claus Ogerman and Oliver Nelson. Her style was a lot freer than it had been in her earlier records but was still more accessible than it would be. Her repertoire, which includes the title cut, "Theme from Dr. Kildare," "Two Cigarettes in the Dark" and her own "Who What Why Where When" was already becoming eclectic. This is an interesting historic release. ~Scott Yanow

'Round Midnight

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Various - The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks (3-Disc Set)

This is not and cannot be the Complete Cole Porter Songbooks, but it's a marvelous collection of 48 timeless jazz interpretations drawn from the Verve catalog. Recorded between 1951 and 1988, these standards, ballads and show tunes are rendered by some 15 vocalists, many of whom appear twice, and about 13 instrumental groups. In addition to the usual suspects (Ella, Louis, Sarah, Dinah, and Lady Day) there are fine performances by Abbey Lincoln, Anita O'Day, Billy Eckstine, Mel Tormé, Blossom Dearie, Shirley Horn, Betty Carter, Helen Merrill, Morgana King and Fred Astaire. The instrumentalists -- and this is most fulfilling because Cole Porter's music is an essential strand in the DNA of swing, bop, and mainstream jazz -- include Ben Webster, Sonny Stitt, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Stan Getz, Al Cohn, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, Bill Evans, Tal Farlow, and Jim Hall. That makes this a portable jazz library of considerable potency, pungency and depth. Also quite valuable as a tool for learning and appreciating some of Porter's very best songs. First prize for both artistic magnitude and friendly intimacy goes to Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson for their fabulously relaxed, nearly nine-minute rendition of "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love." ~arwulf arwulf

Album: The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:04
Size: 153.6 MB
Styles: Easy Listening, Jazz
Year: 1990

[5:26] 1. Dinah Washington - I've Got You Under My Skin
[3:50] 2. Shirley Horn - Love For Sale
[8:41] 3. Louis Armstrong - Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)
[3:20] 4. Ella Fitzgerald - Anything Goes
[2:54] 5. Mel Tormé - What Is This Thing Called Love
[4:17] 6. Helen Merrill - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
[2:27] 7. Oscar Peterson Trio - At Long Last Love
[1:57] 8. Anita O'day - I Love You
[4:01] 9. Louis Armstrong - Just One Of Those Things
[2:42] 10. Sarah Vaughan - It's De-Lovely
[2:48] 11. The Russell Garcia Orchestra - Always True To You In My Fashion
[2:42] 12. Fred Astaire - I Concentrate On You
[6:17] 13. Dinah Washington - I Get A Kick Out Of You
[3:47] 14. Billy Eckstine - In The Still Of The Night
[2:59] 15. Billie Holiday - Easy To Love
[3:03] 16. Ella Fitzgerald - Night And Day
[5:47] 17. Betty Carter - Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye

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Album: The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:41
Size: 127.5 MB
Styles: Easy Listening, Jazz
Year: 1990

[4:16] 1. Louis Armstrong - I Get A Kick Out Of You
[2:52] 2. Anita O'day - My Heart Belongs To Daddy
[3:10] 3. Ella Fitzgerald - I've Got You Under My Skin
[3:02] 4. Helen Merrill - How's The World Treating You
[4:23] 5. Dinah Washington - So In Love
[2:44] 6. Mel Tormé - Too Darn Hot
[2:29] 7. Sarah Vaughan - Just One Of Those Things
[2:49] 8. Shirley Horn - Get Out Of Town
[2:55] 9. Billie Holiday - Love For Sale
[3:09] 10. Anita O'day - From This Moment On
[4:56] 11. Fred Astaire - Night And Day
[2:37] 12. Blossom Dearie - Give Him The Ooh-La-La
[3:14] 13. Morgana King - Ev'rything I Love
[3:53] 14. Ella Fitzgerald - Miss Otis Regrets
[3:29] 15. Helen Merrill - All Of You
[2:29] 16. Louis Armstrong - You're The Top
[3:04] 17. Betty Carter - Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love

The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks (Disc 2)

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Album: The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks (Disc 3)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:08
Size: 146.8 MB
Styles: Easy Listening, Jazz
Year: 1990
Art: Front

[2:35] 1. Charlie Parker - What Is This Thing Called Love
[4:57] 2. Al Cohn - Love For Sale
[2:53] 3. Art Tatum - Begin The Beguine
[5:58] 4. Dizzy Gillespie - My Heart Belongs To Daddy
[4:49] 5. Max Roach Sextet - Get Out Of Town
[4:43] 6. Sonny Stitt - Easy To Love
[7:36] 7. Max Roach Quintet - I Get A Kick Out Of You
[6:44] 8. Stan Getz - Night And Day
[3:48] 9. Bud Powell - Just One Of Those Things
[4:15] 10. Coleman Hawkins - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
[5:08] 11. Tal Farlow Trio - Anything Goes
[2:35] 12. All Star Big Band - I Love You
[3:21] 13. Jim Hall - I've Got You Under My Skin
[4:41] 14. Max Roach Sextet - I Concentrate On You

The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks (Disc 3)

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Betty Carter - It's Not About The Melody

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:44
Size: 161.9 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1992
Art: Front

[8:24] 1. Naima's Love Song
[7:10] 2. Stay As Sweet As You Are
[5:06] 3. Make Him Believe
[3:23] 4. I Should Care
[5:57] 5. Once Upon A Summertime
[5:32] 6. You Go To My Head
[4:06] 7. In The Still Of The Night
[7:42] 8. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
[7:14] 9. The Love We Had Yesterday
[8:53] 10. Dip Bag
[7:11] 11. You're Mine, You

Bass – Ariel J. Roland (tracks: 1,3,4,6,7,10,11), Christian McBride (tracks: 2,5,8), Walter Booker (tracks: 9); Drums – Clarence Penn (tracks: 3,4,10,11), Jeff "Tain" Watts (tracks: 1,9), Lewis Nash (tracks: 2,5-8); Piano – Cyrus Chestnut (tracks: 3,4,6,7,10,11), John Hicks (tracks: 1,9), Mulgrew Miller (tracks: 2,5,8); Tenor Saxophone – Craig Handy (tracks: 1,9); Vocals – Betty Carter.

A song's melody is simply a reference point and a beginning for Carter; she takes words and inverts, probes and extends them, embellishes themes, changes moods and alters rhythms. She's a vocal improviser in a manner few have equaled, and if her voice lacks the clarity and timbre of the all-time greats, she's more than compensated with incredible timing, flexibility and power. Throughout this 11-track effort, Carter's vocals direct and steer the responses of pianist Cyrus Chestnut, bassist Ariel J. Roland and drummer Lewis Nash. It was yet another memorable outing for Betty Carter, an all-time great. ~Ron Wynn

It's Not About The Melody

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Betty Carter - I'm Yours, You're Mine

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:43
Size: 123.0 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[ 7:40] 1. This Time
[ 9:33] 2. I'm Yours, You're Mine
[ 6:27] 3. Lonely House
[ 7:42] 4. Close Your Eyes
[ 7:15] 5. Useless Landscape
[ 4:48] 6. East Of The Sun
[10:17] 7. September Song

I'm Yours, You're Mine is a 1997 studio album by the American jazz singer Betty Carter. Recorded in January 1996, this was the last album that Carter recorded before her death in February 1998.

Howard Reich, writing in the Chicago Tribune said that "No doubt Betty Carter's singing is an acquired taste, but to those who have acquired it, she's a uniquely appealing artist. The elongated lines, exotic colors and unusual ornaments she brings to every cut on this recording...attest to the singular nature of Carter's singing.

I'm Yours, You're Mine

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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

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Betty Carter, Ray Bryant - Meet Betty Carter And Ray Bryant

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 57:34

Size: 131.8 MB

Styles: Bop, Vocal jazz

Year: 1955/1996

Art: Front

[1:57] 1. Let's Fall In Love

[2:36] 2. Social Call

[2:28] 3. Run Away

[2:31] 4. Frenesi

[3:23] 5. Moonlight In Vermont

[1:40] 6. Thou Swell

[2:37] 7. I Could Write A Book

[4:11] 8. Gone With The Wind

[2:42] 9. The Way You Look Tonight

[2:33] 10. Tell Him I Said Hello

[2:26] 11. Can't We Be Friends

[3:16] 12. Sneaking Around

[3:58] 13. Old Devil Moon

[3:34] 14. Willow Weep For Me

[2:51] 15. What Is This Thing Called Love

[2:44] 16. Threesome

[2:51] 17. No Moon At All

[4:49] 18. Bryant's Folly

[4:19] 19. Get Happy

This LP featured singer Betty Carter and pianist Ray Bryant at the beginning of their careers. Carter's 25-year-old voice was already quite recognizable, although the improvising style on her 11 titles here is much more conservative than it would be from the 1970s on. However, Carter's scatting on "Frenesi" (which sounds like a wigged-out Carmen McRae) shows individuality, and her renditions of "Social Call," "I Could Write a Book," and "Moonlight in Vermont" are memorable. A historic and enjoyable set. ~Scott Yanow

Meet Betty Carter And Ray Bryant

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Betty Carter - The Complete: 1948 - 1961

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:24 (Disc 1)
Size: 175,5 MB (Disc 1)
Time: 75:19 (Disc 2)
Size: 173,0 MB (Disc 2)
Art: Front + Back

Disc 1

(3:27)  1. Moonlight In Vermont
(1:43)  2. Thou Swell
(2:41)  3. I Could Write A Book
(4:14)  4. Gone With The Wind
(2:44)  5. The Way You Look Tonight
(2:29)  6. Can't We Be Friends
(2:36)  7. Tell Him I Said Hello
(2:41)  8. Social Call
(2:32)  9. Runaway
(2:34) 10. Frenesi
(2:01) 11. Let's Fall In Love
(1:48) 12. You're Driving Me Crazy
(2:49) 13. I Can't Help It
(2:11) 14. By The Bend Of The River
(2:52) 15. Bab's Blues
(2:25) 16. Foul Play
(2:34) 17. You're Getting To Be A Habit
(2:07) 18. On The Isle Of May
(4:03) 19. But Beautiful
(2:19) 20. All I've Got
(4:33) 21. Make It Last
(1:34) 22. Bluebird Of Happiness
(3:41) 23. Something Wonderful
(3:18) 24. Red Top
(3:20) 25. Benson's Boogie
(3:07) 26. The Hucklebuck
(3:48) 27. Jay Bird

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Disc 2

(2:06)  1. What A little Moonlight Can Do
(3:13)  2. There's No You
(2:26)  3. I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire
(2:26)  4. Remember
(2:52)  5. My Reverie
(2:07)  6. Mean To Me
(3:04)  7. Don't Weep For The Lady
(2:00)  8. Jazz
(2:23)  9. For You
(3:27) 10. Stormy Weather
(2:47) 11. At Sundown
(1:59) 12. On The Alamo
(4:43) 13. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
(3:29) 14. You And I
(3:22) 15. Goodbye / We'll Be Together Again
(2:53) 16. People Will Say We're In Love
(3:17) 17. Cocktails For Two
(2:25) 18. Side By Side
(4:12) 19. Baby, It's Cold Outside
(1:37) 20. Together
(3:45) 21. For All We Know
(3:24) 22. Takes Two To Tango
(4:47) 23. Alone Together
(1:59) 24. Just You, Just Me
(1:58) 25. Frenesi
(2:21) 26. Rock-A-Bye Baby

The Precious And Rare series presents beautifully remastered recordings by some of the very finest jazz artists. Betty Carter brought a new vocal style to jazz, rich in improvisation, passionate scat singing and fighting spirit. She sang with jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Wes Montgomery and Ray Charles and created her own jazz label, achieving prominence in the music business. Songs include 'The Way You Look Tonight', 'Let's Fall In Love', 'Something Wonderful', 'Stormy Weather', 'Baby It's Cold Outside', and many more. 'The finest jazz singer heard in Australia in the past 20 years remains Betty Carter on her two tours in the 1990s. Anyone who witnessed her performances then will never forget the spell she cast as she swept audiences into a theatrical as well as musical world of her own...This comprehensive collection of recordings - from the initial dates with Lionel Hampton through to 12 songs with [Ray] Charles reveals an artist with flawless musical instincts from the outset.' ~ Sydney Morning Herald  https://www.musicdirect.net.au/audio/the-complete-betty-carter-1948-1961.do

The Complete: 1948 - 1961 (CD1)

The Complete: 1948 - 1961 (CD2)

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