Tight (Betty Carter)
Context
Composition by Betty Carter released on The Betty Carter Album, produced by herself for her own label Bet-Car. It is her first record on which she wrote most of the tracks, and the only one on which she layers several vocal lines in places through re-recording.
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).