Betty Carter III: Award Winner
Betty Carter Quintet - That Sunday, That Summer
Betty Carter Quintet - Just Like the Movies (Time)
From Look What I Got: Verve/Bet-Car 835-661-2 [Buy]
In 1988, Betty Carter won a Grammy for her first album on Verve, Look What I Got: a perhaps surprising accolade from the pop music industry for a singer who remained "challenging" to the general public throughout her career.
Both these songs are taken from this album, easily one of the finest studio efforts from Carter's career, including one of Carter's own compositions, Just Like the Movies, a determinedly contemporary ballad, ("Circling the globe/on a plane without end/trying to go to sleep/the possibility's slim").
Betty Carter Quintet - Just Like the Movies (Time)
From Look What I Got: Verve/Bet-Car 835-661-2 [Buy]
In 1988, Betty Carter won a Grammy for her first album on Verve, Look What I Got: a perhaps surprising accolade from the pop music industry for a singer who remained "challenging" to the general public throughout her career.
Both these songs are taken from this album, easily one of the finest studio efforts from Carter's career, including one of Carter's own compositions, Just Like the Movies, a determinedly contemporary ballad, ("Circling the globe/on a plane without end/trying to go to sleep/the possibility's slim").
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Many of the young players in Carter's bands have gone on to establish significant careers in jazz. On this record alone we hear Benny Green and Stephen Scott on piano, Ira Coleman on bass and Winard Harper and Lewis Nash on drums. Don Braden supplies tenor saxophone on both songs.
Many of the young players in Carter's bands have gone on to establish significant careers in jazz. On this record alone we hear Benny Green and Stephen Scott on piano, Ira Coleman on bass and Winard Harper and Lewis Nash on drums. Don Braden supplies tenor saxophone on both songs.
posted by etnobofin @ 17:48
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At 7:40 PM,
thebeathunters said…
how come it took me so long to know about you?
glad you visited the naugahyde life (or so my statcounter tells me) hope you enjoyed it; seems like we have some music taste in common (ecm, pharoah;etc) now you're on my fave list and i'll add etnoboffin to my links asap . there's so many of them it doesn't make sense anymore so i may proceed to some severe chopping to that evergrowing tree but i promise you'll stand up... see ya online i hope
At 7:33 AM,
etnobofin said…
Thanks for dropping by! Look forward to discovering some more great music on your blog too :-)
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