Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard

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Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard
Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard cover
Live album by Betty Carter
Released 1970
Recorded May 22, 1970 at the Village Vanguard
Genre Jazz
Length 40:23
Label Bet-Car/Verve
Producer Betty Carter
Professional reviews
Betty Carter chronology
Now It's My Turn
(1969)		 Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard
(1970)		 The Betty Carter Album
(1972)

Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard is a 1970 live album by Betty Carter featuring her performing with her trio at the Village Vanguard, the famous jazz club. It was the first release on Carter's own label, Bet-Car Records, and was originally titled simply Betty Carter. The album was given its present title for its release on CD by Verve Records in 1993.

The track listing and personnel on Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard is very similar to that of the album Finally, Betty Carter, which she recorded six months earlier. However, the original producer of Finally ran off with the master recording, and it remained unreleased until 1976. Carter released At the Village Vanguard on her own label to effectively supplant the stolen album in her discography. Despite the superficial similarities between the two albums, the more intimate setting and Carter's lively interplay with the audience give At the Village Vanguard a very different feel from Finally, which was recorded at the Judson Hall Theatre.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "By the Bend of the River" (Clara Edwards, Bernhard Haig) 1:52
  2. "Ego" (Randy Weston, Betty Carter) 3:04
  3. "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Frank Eyton, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) 5:21
  4. "Heart and Soul" (Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser) 3:30
  5. "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) 7:38
  6. "Girl Talk" (Neal Hefti, Bob Troup) 4:20
  7. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) 2:08
  8. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Hammerstein) 0:59
  9. "I Could Write a Book" (Rodgers, Hart) 2:18
  10. "The Sun Died" (Ray Charles, Hubert Giraud, Anne Gregory, Pierre LeRoye) 5:31
  11. "Please Do Something" (Carter) 3:03

[edit] Personnel

Recorded May 22, 1970 at the Village Vanguard, New York City, New York, USA