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Betty Carter

Betty Carter has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 17 March 2013. Betty Carter's music has been featured on 21 episodes.

Betty Carter (1929–1998) was a prominent U.S. jazz singer, renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style. Carter expanded the role of the vocalist in jazz, to a full, improvising member of the band. Although her voice was not as admired by the public as such vocalists as Sarah Vaughan or Ella Fitzgerald, many consider her to have exercised mastery of the human voice previously unheard in jazz. Carmen McRae once claimed that "there's really only one jazz singer -…

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Beware My Heart
Betty Carter
United Artists Records1964
Beware My Heart
Betty CarterUnited Artists Records1964
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Open The Door
Betty Carter
United Artists Records1964
Open The Door
Betty CarterUnited Artists Records1964
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Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
Betty Carter
United Artists Records1964
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
Betty CarterUnited Artists Records1964
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Sunday, Monday, Or Always
Betty Carter
Bet-Car Productions1976
Sunday, Monday, Or Always
Betty CarterBet-Car Productions1976
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Make It Last
Betty Carter
Verve Records1988
Make It Last
Betty CarterVerve Records1988
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Look What I Got
Betty Carter
Verve Records1988
Look What I Got
Betty CarterVerve Records1988
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Dip Bag
Betty Carter
Verve Records1992
Dip Bag
Betty CarterVerve Records1992
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Bab's Blues
Betty Carter
Peacock's Progressive Jazz1958
Bab's Blues
Betty CarterPeacock's Progressive Jazz1958
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Baby It's Cold Outside
Ray Charles, Betty Carter
His Master's Voice1961
Baby It's Cold Outside
Ray Charles, Betty CarterHis Master's Voice1961
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But Beautiful
Carmen McRae, Betty Carter
The Great American Music Hall Records1987
But Beautiful
Carmen McRae, Betty CarterThe Great American Music Hall Records1987
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