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The Audience with Betty Carter

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Released
  
1980

Artist
  
Betty Carter

Producer
  
Betty Carter

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal jazz

Length
  
91:20

Release date
  
1980

Label
  
Verve Records

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Recorded
  
December 6 - 8, 1979, San Francisco

The Audience with Betty Carter (1979)
  
Whatever Happened to Love? (1982)

Similar
  
Betty Carter albums, Vocal jazz albums

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The Audience with Betty Carter is a 1979 (see 1979 in music) live double album by the American jazz singer Betty Carter.

Contents

The album's first track, "Sounds (Movin' On)", is 25 minutes in length and features an epic scat solo. "The Trolley Song" is a nod to the city of San Francisco, where the album was recorded. The second half of the album features several songs written by Carter. The penultimate track is a fresh take on Rodgers and Hammerstein's "My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music, echoing the revolutionary rendition by John Coltrane on his 1960 album of the same name. The set ends with the plaintive "Open the Door," Carter's signature tune.

The Audience With Betty Carter was first released on Carter's own Bet-Car Records and later reissued on Verve.

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Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album four out of four stars, including a special crown for a "recording of merit." The review states that "she works the room with consummate skill," and noting that "Billie Holiday doesn't have a crowned album." Billboard magazine gave the album a lukewarm review on its release in 1980, saying that "She won't please all jazz fans - some of her affectations are annoying. But overall, it's a strong package." The Audience with Betty Carter was later included in an appendix to 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die.

Track listing

Disc One

  1. "Sounds" (Movin' On) (Betty Carter) – 25:20
  2. "I Think I Got It Now" (Carter) – 3:33
  3. "Caribbean Sun" (Carlos Garnett) – 4:17
  4. "The Trolley Song" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 3:37
  5. "Everything I Have Is Yours" (Harold Adamson, Burton Lane) – 6:16
  6. "I'll Buy You a Star" (Dorothy Fields, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:12

Disc Two

  1. "I Could Write a Book" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:41
  2. "Can't We Talk It Over"/"Either It's Love or It Isn't" (Doris Fisher, Allan Roberts)/(Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 7:26
  3. "Deep Night" (Charles Henderson, Rudy Vallée) – 2:45
  4. "Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 7:22
  5. "Tight" (Carter) – 3:44
  6. "Fake" (Carter) – 4:16
  7. "So..." (Carter) – 7:03
  8. "My Favorite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Rodgers) – 4:39
  9. "Open the Door" (Carter) – 5:09

Personnel

Recorded December 6 - 8, 1979, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco:

  • Betty Carter - vocals
  • John Hicks - piano
  • Curtis Lundy - double bass
  • Kenny Washington - drums

    • Songs

    1Sounds (Movin' On)25:20
    2I Think I Got It Now3:33
    3Caribbean Sun4:17

    References

    The Audience with Betty Carter Wikipedia
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