The Audience with Betty Carter

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The Audience with Betty Carter
The Audience with Betty Carter cover
Studio album by Betty Carter
Released 1979
Recorded December 6 - 8, 1979
Genre Jazz
Length 91:20
Label Verve Records
Producer(s) Betty Carter
Professional reviews
Betty Carter chronology
At The Village Vanguard
(1970)		 The Audience with Betty Carter
(1979)		 Whatever Happened to Love?
(1982)


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

This album is considered by some critics to be the finest jazz vocal performance ever recorded. Carter's scat singing feels much more fluid, for example, than Ella Fitzgerald's longest scat solo on 'How High the Moon' from her 1960 album Ella in Berlin.

The first track Sounds is 25 minutes in length, and represents probably the greatest extended scat solo on record. The Trolley Song is a knowing nod to the city of San Francisco, and 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 record label, Bet-Car Records, and later picked up by the Verve label.

[edit] Track listing

For the 1992 Verve CD Reissue, 835684-2.

Disc One

  1. "Sounds" (Movin' On) (Betty Carter) – 25:20
  2. "I Think I Got It Now" (Betty 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 Isin'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" (Betty Carter) – 3:44
  6. "Fake" (Betty Carter) – 4:16
  7. "So..." (Betty Carter) – 7:03
  8. "My Favorite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 4:39
  9. "Open the Door" (Betty Carter) – 5:09

[edit] Personnel

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

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