Compact Jazz - Betty Carter (comp.)
I Can't Help It     2:46 My Favorite Things  4:38
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most    7:20 Look What I Got   5:41
All I Got  4:40 Carribean Sun  4:24
Social Call     2:24 You're a Sweetheart  3:57
Sounds (Movin' On)  7:17 The Good Life    6:58
Make It Last    6:32 Tight   1:36
Open the Door (Theme Song) 5:07 Every Time We Say Goodbye    5:48

Featured musicians

Compilation Album: see personnel from The Betty Carter Album, The Audience with Betty Carter, Whatever Happened to Love?, and Look What I Got     Verve 843274

Production Notes:


This disc is a 1990 Verve compilation, pulling tracks from four previously released records:
    1 - The Betty Carter Album
    2 - The Audience with Betty Carter
    3 - Look What I Got
    4 - Whatever Happened to Love?

Reviews:

4 Stars ... Carter allows the musicians here to challenge rather than just support her, and she rises to the occasion with an even more instrumental approach to singing than usual.  It's a bravura performance... - Down Beat, 11/94
   

4 Stars ... Her voice epitomizing the epiphet 'smoky,' she twists words, phrases, melodies and harmonies with the sensibility of a bebop instrumentalist... featuring a rhythm section... which is hot enough to light the fire in your front room... - Q Magazine, 1/95
   

B+  ... the most original jazz singer alive usually works with promising newcomers.  But in these live performances, she uses players who've fulfilled their promise... - Entertainment Weekly, 10/14/94
   

A masterly performance which sums up all Carter's originality and flair. - Jazz - The Rough Guide

 

Recorded live on October 30, 1993 at the Royal Festival Hall, London, England

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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