The Audience with Betty Carter

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The Audience with Betty Carter
AudienceBettyCarter.jpg
Live album by Betty Carter
Released 1980
Recorded December 6 - 8, 1979, San Francisco
Genre Vocal jazz
Length 91:20
Label Betcar, Verve (reissue)
Producer Betty Carter
Betty Carter chronology
The Betty Carter Album
(1972)The Betty Carter Album1972		 The Audience with Betty Carter
(1979)		 Whatever Happened to Love?
(1982)Whatever Happened to Love?1982
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars [1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide 5/5 stars[2]

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

The album's first track, "Sounds (Movin' On)", is 25 minutes in length and features an epic scat solo. "The Trolley Song" is a nod to the city of San Francisco, where the album was recorded. 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 Bet-Car Records and later reissued on Verve.

Reception

Billboard magazine gave the album received a lukewarm review on its release in 1980, saying that "She won't please all jazz fans - some of her affections are annoying. But overall, it's a strong package." [3] The Audience with Betty Carter was later included in an appendix to 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die.[4]

Track listing

Disc One

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

Personnel

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

References

  1. ↑ Chadbourne, Eugene. The Audience with Betty Carter at AllMusic
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