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Betty Carter · 1964

Context

Composition by Betty Carter, whose album Inside Betty Carter (United Artists, 1964) contains the first recording. It became her signature song. The original session dates from April 1964 in New York, with Harold Mabern, Bob Cranshaw and Roy McCurdy.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most (1964)
• Baby, It's Cold Outside (1961)
• Tight (Betty Carter) (1976)
• Sounds (Movin' On) (1979)
• Caribbean Sun (1979)
• The Trolley Song (1979)

Sources

• EN: Inside Betty Carter

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