Sounds (Movin' On)

Betty Carter · 1979 · Ouverture de 25 minutes, avec longue improvisation scat

Context

Opening of the live double album The Audience with Betty Carter, recorded in San Francisco in December 1979. Lasting 25 min 20, this piece by Carter includes a long scat solo.

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

• Caribbean Sun (1979)
• The Trolley Song (1979)
• Fake (1979)
• Tight (Betty Carter) (1976)
• Baby, It's Cold Outside (1961)

Sources

• EN: The Audience with Betty Carter

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