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Betty Carter
Betty Carter
Born: May 16, 1930 in Flint, MI
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Died: Sep 26, 1998 in Brooklyn, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Avant-Garde, Bop, Ballads, Vocal Jazz, Swing, Soul-Jazz
Biography: Arguably the most adventurous female jazz singer of all time, Betty Carter was an idiosyncratic stylist and a restless improviser who pushed the limits of melody and harmony as much as any bebop horn player. The husky-voiced Carter was capable of radical, off-the-cuff reworkings of whatever she sang, ...Read full biography
The Audience With Betty Carter
The Audience With Betty Carter
Released: 1979
Label: Verve Records
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After years of being told what she ought to do by record companies and producers, and then putting up with being ignored thanks to the public's fanatic interest in rock & roll, virtuoso jazz singer Carter ...Read full review
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
Released: 1976
Label: ABC
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All of the music on this out-of-print two-LP set from 1976 has since been reissued by Impulse on the single CD I Can't Help It. It offers listeners a definitive overview of vocalist Betty Carter's early ...Read full review
More Betty Carter albums: Main Albums (21), Compilations (9)
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