Biography

Originally known as Betty Bebop from her work with Parker and Gillespie in the 1940s, the singer worked with Miles Davis and Max Roach in the 1950s, but often had trouble finding work due to her complex, demanding style. In the 1970s she started her own group, which would become a rigorous training ground for young musicians, and finally gained a full measure of success in the 1980s. Her swooping, melismatic scatting make her voice one of the most distinctive in jazz.

Top Tracks

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• Am I Blue

• I Can't Help It

• I Could Write A Book

• Imagination

• Medley: Body And Soul/heart And Soul

• Medley: Seems Like Old Times/i Remember You/remember

• My Favorite Things

• 'round Midnight

• September Song

• Social Call

• Sounds (movin' On)

• Stormy Weather

• That Old Devil Moon

• The Man I Love

• The Way You Look Tonight

• There Is No Greater Love

• This Time

• What A Little Moonlight Can Do

• What's New?

• Who What Why Where When

• You're Driving Me Crazy (what Did I Do?)

• You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me

Discography

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• Duets: Live at the Great American Music Hall

  Polygram

  1996

• I'm Yours, You're Mine

  Verve

  1996

• Feed the Fire

  Verve / Polygram

  1993

• It's Not About the Melody

  Verve

  1992

• Droppin' Things

  Verve

  1990

• Look What I Got

  Verve

  1988

• Live at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco

  Great American Music Hall

  1987

• Jazzbuhne Berlin '85

  Repertoire

  1985

• Whatever Happened to Love?

  Verve

  1982

• The Audience with Betty Carter

  Verve

  1980

• What a Little Moonlight Can Do

  ABC Music

  1976

• Now It's My Turn

  Roulette Records

  1976

• The Betty Carter Album

  Verve

  1972

• At the Village Vanguard

  Verve

  1970

• Finally

  Roulette Records

  1969

• 'Round Midnight [1969]

  Roulette Records

  1969

• Inside Betty Carter

  Capitol/EMI Records / Blue Note

  1965

• 'Round Midnight [1963]

  Atlantic & Atco Remasters / Atlantic

  1963

• Out There

  Blue Moon

  1958

• Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant

  Epic

  1955