I'm Yours, You're Mine (1996)
This Time  7:43
September Song 10:19
I'm Yours, You're Mine  9:34
Lonely House 6:29  
Close Your Eyes 7:45  
Useless Landscape  7:16  
East of the Sun 4:50  

Featured musicians

Curtis Lundy - bass     Verve 533182
Gregory Hutchinson - drums     
Xavier Davis - piano     
Mark Shim - tenor saxophone     
Andre Hayward - trombone     
Matt Hughes - bass     
    

Production Notes:

This marked Betty Carter's final recording before she founded Bet-Car productions - the tracks for 'Round Midnight (the second album given that title, it having been previously used for an 1963 Atco release) were also recorded during this same December 1969 live date.

Reviews:

4.5 Stars - ...may be the easiest-to-like Betty Carter album since she sang with Ray Charles 35 years ago... She lingers in the glow of an after-midnight atmosphere and takes her time with seven special songs and, of course, transforms them.   The cumulative effect is narcotic... - Down Beat, 1/97
   

On this collection, as usual, she is intoxicating.  Her interpretation of song is heavenly, an intertwining of lyrical and musical sense that seeks and usually finds a precarious balance on the edge of sentimentality - JazzTimes, 3/97

3 Stars - Carter has done almost as much as Sarah Vaughn to open up the possibilities of what jazz singers can do if they have the nerve, technique, and talent... - Q Magazine, 4/97
   

An important gauge of a singer's mettle... is her way with ballads.  On that score, as always, Carter is unsurpassed... An unhurried, slowly unfolding qualirt inheres most of I'm Yours, You're Mine as Carter employs her reeds, semisweet voice with subtle precision, harmonizing with, or against, the other instrumentalists.  Carter is most effective (indeed, unrivaled) when she waxes warmly over tempos so slow as to be glacial. - Gene Kalbacher, CMJ New Music Report


   

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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