Jazz
Betty Carter with Marc Cary, Cyrus Chestnut, Kenny Dorham, Benny Golson, Craig Handy, John Hicks, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Kelly, Melba Liston, Curtis Lundy, Carmen McRae, Lewis Nash, Stephen Scott, Kenny Washington, and others.
A vocalist who could improvise as skillfully as the best jazz musicians, Betty Carter forever transformed and expanded the singer's role in jazz. Though she was never as big a star as Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan, her fellow musicians and devoted fans knew that she was as distinctive and dynamic a singer as jazz has ever known.
Spanning the decades from late 1950s through the early 1990s, this collection makes it dazzlingly clear that Betty Carter took dramatic risks, and remained true to her unique musical vision.
Original recordings produced by Tom Bradshaw, Betty Carter, and Carmen McRae. Betty Carter; Liljay Productions, Inc; and others. |
